Kate Weisburd

Kate joined East Bay Community Law Center in 2012 to develop and launch the Youth Defender Project. Kate previously worked at the Death Penalty Clinic at U.C. Berkeley Law and supervised law students working on capital trials and appeals in the South. Kate is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she interned with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (Criminal Justice Section), the Brennan Center for Justice, the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, and the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem. Upon graduation, she served as a law clerk to the Honorable Lawrence K. Karlton, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. Before attending law school, Kate worked as a death penalty investigator at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia.