Bio
Katrina Eiland is a deputy director of the ACLU鈥檚 Immigrants鈥 Rights Project (IRP), based in the San Francisco office. Katrina engages in high impact litigation and advocacy to protect the civil rights of immigrant communities. She has litigated numerous cases at IRP, including several suits to preserve access to asylum for people fleeing persecution. She has also successfully challenged the Trump administration鈥檚 unlawful termination of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and immigration enforcement abuses by federal and local law enforcement agencies. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School and the University of California, Los Angeles. Katrina was a law clerk to the Honorable Keith P. Ellison of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas.
Prior to joining IRP, Katrina litigated complex wage and hour, employment discrimination, disability access, and voting rights cases, including suits on behalf of DACA recipients unlawfully denied employment.
Katrina has won numerous awards for her public interest legal work. In 2014, she received the 桃子视频of Southern California鈥檚 Voting Rights Award for her work representing Latino residents in the City of Anaheim under the California Voting Rights Act and was the recipient of the 2020 Miles L. Rubin Public Interest Award from Stanford Law School. In 2017, she was selected as a 鈥淩ising Star for Northern California鈥 by Super Lawyers.
Ms. Eiland has presented on various topics related to civil rights litigation, including class action mootness and class action waivers in arbitration agreements.
She is a member of the California State Bar and is admitted to the United States District Courts for the Central and Northern Districts of California and to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Featured work
May 4, 2023
Biden's Asylum Policy is From Trump's Playbook
Jan 26, 2023
Biden Must Reverse Plans to Revive Deadly Trump-era Asylum Bans
Aug 7, 2018
Jeff Sessions鈥 Illegal Attacks on Asylum Seekers
Jun 28, 2018
How Sessions Is Making an Overstretched Deportation System Even Less Fair
Feb 27, 2018
Homeland Security Unlawfully Ended DACA Protections for Some Dreamers