About me
Kate Marr is the Executive Director at Community Legal Aid SoCal (CLA SoCal), a non-profit
agency with a staff of 150 serving Orange and Los Angeles Counties. CLA SoCal fights injustice
and advocates for social, economic, and racial equity by providing compassionate, holistic, and
impactful legal services. Kate has spent her entire 25-year career in legal services, working
primarily with survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other
forms of trauma. Immediately prior to joining CLA SoCal, Kate was a managing attorney at
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) where she supervised the organization’s family
law and immigration work and the Greater Long Beach Medical-Legal Partnership. Kate is a
past chair of the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Access to Justice Committee and a past
Chair of the Board of the Legal Aid Association of California (LAAC). She was also a founding
member of LAAC’s Inclusion Diversity Equity and Accountability in Legal Aid (IDEAL)
Committee. Kate received her JD from the University of Colorado School of Law and her
undergraduate degree from Bryn Mawr College.
