DCB welcomes new associate Kyrsten Skogstad to its San Francisco office. Kyrsten recently graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis School of Law with honors. During law school she was an AFL-CIO Law Student Union Summer Fellow and through the program clerked for the Culinary Workers Union, Local 226 in Las Vegas, Nevada. As a law student, she also interned at the Department of Labor in Washington, DC and at Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation in East Saint Louis, Illinois.
She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University where she majored in Biological Anthropology and Anatomy and minored in Arabic. During her time at Duke she was a core organizer for her university’s chapter of United Students Against Sweatshops and participated in many UNITE HERE and United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) campaigns. Prior to Law School she worked in the Refugee and Immigrant Program at The Advocates for Human Rights in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
