American Civil Liberties Union

Kate Desormeau received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a member of the Workers' and Immigrants' Rights Clinic and the Immigration Legal Services clinic, an Articles Editor of the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal, and a Coker teaching fellow in Constitutional Law. She also holds two masters degrees from Oxford University, one in European Literatures and one in Refugee Studies, with thesis work on displacement in Chechnya. Prior to joining the Immigrants' Rights Project, she worked as a researcher at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University; as a Social Justice and Impact Litigation Fellow in the County Counsel’s Office for Santa Clara County, California; and as a law clerk for the Honorable Marsha Berzon of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.