Salina Isaq

You want to get to know her because:

• Salina brings her experience as a community organizer and rape crisis counselor to her practice as a civil rights attorney. Extensively trained in Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist Theory, her approach to addressing employment- and education-based violence is rooted in intersectional feminist politics, which informs her client-centered and trauma-informed approaches to legal advocacy.  
• She is the managing attorney for ERA’s Advice & Counseling Warmline, Law Clerk Program, and Pro Bono Network. ERA’s Advice & Counseling Warmline receives hundreds of calls from students and workers across the country who have experienced sex- or gender-based violence. Salina provides direct representation, advice and counseling, and community education through the warmline, advises and trains ERA’s Pro Bono network on substantive law, and provides assistance to Pro Bono attorneys representing student survivors. She also manages the experiential learning of our law clerks, including co-instructing the Student Initiated Legal Services Project at Berkeley Law in the Survivor Advocacy Project.
• Salina previously worked as an associate at Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams, LLP, a plaintiff-side employment law firm, where she represented California workers experiencing discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination. She continued her work in plaintiff’s side employment law at Legal Aid at Work, representing workers experiencing pregnancy and lactation discrimination, denial of paid family leave, and other forms of protected leave on the Work & Family team. During this time, she assisted in CRD mediations, filing complaints with the EEOC, and working on family-friendly workplace bills such as AB 518 (expanding access to leave in California for chosen families). 

Alumna of:

• Salina is a 2022 graduate of the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly U.C. Hastings), where she received her Juris Doctorate and completed a concentration in Social Justice Lawyering. 
• Salina graduated from the University of California Berkeley in 2018 with a bachelors in Sociology.

Outside of work:

• Salina volunteers with the Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance bringing attention to the living conditions of women and children impacted by war and is a member of The Ruby, a collective of nonbinary, transfeminine, and woman-identified creatives providing educational and creative outlets for community members in San Francisco. 
• She also spends her time engaging in grassroots organizing to raise awareness around sexual assault and gender-based violence in the Bay Area and fought for access to medication abortion on California college campuses through SB 24. 
• Salina loves to read, bake, garden, and explore the numerous trailheads across California.