Kristina is an attorney at Jenner & Block in Washington, DC. Her litigation experience includes representing victims of human trafficking, plaintiffs in civil rights class actions, low-income workers, defendants in white collar criminal investigations, and businesses in large civil litigation matters. Additionally, Kristina serves as pro bono counsel for the DC City Council’s Board of Elections and Ethics Investigation, and she was part of the court-appointed team that drafted the Examiner’s Report in the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy.

Kristina also currently works as an adjunct professor of law at American University’s Washington College of Law, where she teaches on gender, international and comparative law.

Prior to attending Stanford Law School, Kristina worked for over a decade on gender issues, women’s rights and international development. She worked for President Clinton’s National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women, the Department of Justice Violence Against Women Office, the Centers for Disease Control, the Washington Area Women’s Foundation, and the International Human Rights Law Group. As a consultant and interim director, Kristina helped Women for Women International grow over 700% in six months after the organization appeared on the Oprah Show. She was a delegate to the UN Conference on Women in Beijing. She founded the Stanford Domestic Violence Pro Bono Project and Occidental Partnership Assisting Women. Kristina has researched women’s and human rights issues in over ten countries through a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship and a Richter Fellowship. As a law student, Kristina worked at The Impact Fund on Dukes v. Walmart (1.8 million women suing Walmart for gender discrimination) and for a plaintiff-side civil rights law firm. Kristina received her BA from Occidental College and a Masters in Gender & International Development from the London School of Economics. Kristina is the recipient of the Truman Scholarship and the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. In addition to gender issues and international development, she is interested broadly in progressive social justice issues and animal rights.