Christine Clarke

Christine Clarke is Chief of Litigation and Advocacy at Legal Services NYC. In this role, she leads LSNYC’s strategic advocacy on behalf of low-income New Yorkers, including by initiating and overseeing high impact and complex civil litigation and working closely with advocates and community groups to engage in thoughtful and cutting-edge policy advocacy.

Christine comes most recently from Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Public Policy Litigation & Law Department, where she represented Planned Parenthood affiliates in litigation around the country, challenging abortion bans and other threats to reproductive healthcare access and fighting for the right of all people to make their own decisions about their bodies, lives, and futures. She also previously served as LSNYC’s Director of the Civil Rights Justice Initiative, where she spearheaded LSNYC’s citywide civil rights litigation and advocacy on behalf of low-income New Yorkers, including by working with community-based organizations and other LSNYC advocates on lawsuits against government agencies —including the New York City Police Department, NYC’s Human Resource Administration and the NYC Housing Authority—that resulted in critical changes to policies and procedures. She has previously worked in private practice as an employee-side employment lawyer working on wage and hour and anti-discrimination litigation. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and Yale Law School.