- New York University School of Law
- University of Washington, magna cum laude
Kelsey Kinoshita
Kelsey Kinoshita
Kelsey Kinoshita is the Joseph V. Kaplan Workers’ Rights Fellow at Bryan Schwartz Law.
Ms. Kinoshita earned her law degree from the New York University School of Law in 2025. Prior to her fellowship with Bryan Schwartz Law, Ms. Kinoshita served as the inaugural Legal Fellow at the NYU Law Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center, where she managed legal leadership training for NYU Law student Fellows and advanced sex equality under state constitutions alongside the Marcy Syms Equality Initiative.
During her legal education at NYU Law, Ms. Kinoshita served as a staff editor and as Colloquium Editor for the Review of Law & Social Change Journal and as the NYU Law Women Advocacy Chair. Ms. Kinoshita protected marginalized communities’ civil rights through legal and policy advocacy projects in the Reproductive Justice Clinic and the Racial Justice & Abolition Clinic. In recognition of her outstanding clinical work, Ms. Kinoshita received the Ann Petluck Poses Memorial Prize. During her summers, Ms. Kinoshita interned at Chinese for Affirmative Action and the ACLU Women’s Rights Project. Ms. Kinoshita is also the recipient of the Japanese Bar Association Elmer Yamamoto Civil Rights and Public Interest Scholarship. Ms. Kinoshita is committed to pursuing justice through transformative systems change. She is dedicated to protecting workers’ rights so that everyone can lead their lives with dignity and freedom.
Prior to her legal education, Ms. Kinoshita earned her B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Washington in Philosophy and Law, Societies, & Justice. She grew up in the Bay Area and is a California state barred attorney.
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- The State Bar of California
