Kathryn  provides Keller Law  in-depth understanding of the health-harming legal needs of children. She also provides guidance in systemic efforts to assert and protect the legal rights of all of Connecticut’s children. Kathryn is well-recognized by colleagues,, legislators,, agency officials, and parents as a leading attorney advocate for children with disabilities. Throughout her career, Kathryn  has focused on the legal rights of Connecticut's most vulnerable children- including low-income children, immigrant children, children in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems, and children with mental health challenges.

  Kathryn currently serves as the Director of the Yale Child Study Center Medical-Legal Partnership Project (MLP), through the Center for Children's Advocacy.  Through the MLP, Kathryn collaborates with Yale social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists to support clients with health-harming legal needs, primarily those around education, benefits, immigration, housing, or other barriers.   

  Kathryn sits on several statewide task forces, including the legislatively-appointed Special Education Funding & Services Task Force, the Social-Emotional Learning Collaborative of the Commission on Women & Children, and the Juvenile Justice Policy & Oversight Committee- Suspension & Expulsion Subcommittee

  Kathryn has extensive legislative experience from identifying systemic legal issues, to drafting and pitching effective bill proposals, and then to coordinating testifiers and drafting testimony on dozens of bills.  

  Kathryn is a 2009 graduate of Columbia Law School,  She holds a clinical faculty position at Yale University School of Medicine. She has been named one of the Connecticut Law Tribune’s “New Leaders in the Law,” as well as one of the Fairfield County Business Journal’s “40 Under 40.” 

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