Kristen has almost two decades of experience advocating for public and private sector employees. After a two-year clerkship with an administrative law judge at the U.S. Department of Labor and a short stint in Big Law, Kristen worked as an associate at an employee-side law firm outside of Chicago. Back on the East Coast, she spent four years at a firm dedicated to representing federal sector employees before the EEOC and the MSPB before joining another employee-side law firm, where she led the federal sector team.

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Education: Tulane University School of Law, J.D., 2004, Magna cum laude

Licenses: District of Columbia

Court Admissions: District of Columbia - D.D.C.; Northern District of Illinois; Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals; Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals; U.S. Court of Appeals, DC Circuit