Elizabeth Kristen
Director, Gender Equity & LGBTQ Rights Program
Elizabeth Kristen is a senior staff attorney and the Director of Legal Aid at Work's Gender Equity & LGBT Rights Program, where she represents low-wage workers facing employment discrimination and harassment based on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, military, or veteran status. Ms. Kristen graduated from Berkeley Law in 2001. She was selected for the Order of the Coif and served as an editor for the California Law Review. Prior to joining Legal Aid at Work in 2002 as a Skadden Fellow, Ms. Kristen clerked for the Honorable James R. Browning on the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. In 2015, California Lawyer selected Ms. Kristen as one of its California Lawyers of the Year in the field of Civil Rights. She is a Northern California Super Lawyer. Ms. Kristen was the recipient of Protect our Defenders’ Justice Award. In 2012 to 2013, she served as a Harvard law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow. Ms. Kristen was a lecturer at Berkeley Law School from 2008 to 2013.
Victoria Chan
Attorney & FAIR Fellow
Victoria Chan is an Attorney and 2024 to 2025 Foundation for Advocacy, Inclusion, and Resources (FAIR) Fellow with the Wage Protection Program and Work & Family Program. Ms. Chan received her J.D., with Honors, from Golden Gate University (GGU) School of Law, where she was awarded the Academic Excellence in Labor and Employment Law Award. While in law school, she served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Michelle Tong of the San Francisco Superior Court. Ms. Chan also served as a law clerk with Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams LLP, GGU’s Women Employment Rights Clinic, and the California Labor Commissioner’s Office – Legal Unit. Prior to law school, she was the Senior Community Advocate for the Workers’ Rights Program at the Asian Law Caucus, where she empowered and represented low-wage and immigrant workers.
