Staff

Christine Kwon

Counsel

Christine Kwon focuses on legal and policy advocacy to stop and seek accountability for abuses of power and those who undermine democracy. She leads Protect Democracy’s efforts to mobilize national-security leaders to defend democracy, and has led work to prevent domestic deployment of the military and militarized law enforcement for political ends, including litigation representing protesters challenging unjust law enforcement. Christine teaches in Harvard Law School’s Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic. She previously ran the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project at Yale Law School, served as policy advisor on a presidential campaign, and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.