Katherine Chu
Accomplished Attorney | Strategic Policy Advisor | Passionate Advocate for Social Justice & Public Safety Reform | Skilled in Legislative and Community-Centered Solutions
- Role
- Legislative Director at Asian Pacific Environmental Network
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Katherine Chu
A civil rights and social justice attorney dedicated to issues relating to homelessness, the criminalization and prosecution of poverty, and economic justice, gender justice, and racial justice. I\'m the Legislative Director at APEN focusing on environmental, immigrant, and housing justice. Chair of the Housing and Gender Justice Advisory Board of the Family Violence Law Center. Formerly a Policy Advisor on Police Alternatives in the Office of SF Mayor London N. Breed, Deputy City Attorney at the Oakland City Attorney\'s Office - General and Complex Litigation (Defense), a Commissioner and Vice President of the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Commission, founding and senior staff attorney at East Bay Family Defenders (representing parents in dependency court), criminal public defender, insurance defense litigation associate, and Staff Attorney and Program Manager of the Housing Rights Program at Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus.
Experience
Legislative Director
Asian Pacific Environmental Network
Nov 2025 — Present
Education
Lowell High School
Diploma
1998 — 2002
UC Santa Barbara
B.A., High Honors, Business Economics, Sociology
2002 — 2004
University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings)
Juris Doctor, Criminal Law Practice and Theory
2005 — 2008
Skills
- Intellectual Property
- Civil Litigation
- Trial Practice
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Westlaw
- Legal Research
- Mediation
- Legal Writing
- Litigation
- Depositions
- Product Liability
- Commercial Litigation
- Appeals
- Courts
- Trials
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