Kate Lipper is a policy and legal advisor for EducationCounsel LLC. Ms. Lipper provides strategic advice and legal analysis to clients at state education agencies, state-level entities, and nationally- and federally-focused organizations. She further assists clients with the process of policy change.

A former teacher in the Atlanta public schools, Ms. Lipper earned her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, in 2008 from Harvard Law School, where her coursework concentrated on law and education, education policy-making and the courts, entrepreneurship in education reform, effective interventions for at-risk children, and child welfare and juvenile justice. She additionally served as an executive editor for solicited content for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. During law school, Ms. Lipper was

• A research assistant on public education issues for Professor Martha Minow, now Dean of Harvard Law School;
• An editor for the Harvard Civil Right Project's amicus brief for Parents Involved in Community schools v. Seattle School District No. 1; and
• A clinical participant in the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative at the WilmerHale Legal Services Center, where she represented individual parents and advocated before school support teams for policies that created safe and supportive environments sensitive to the needs of traumatized children.

She has worked as a legal intern at the Center for Law and Education in Boston; the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights; and the House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor.

Ms. Lipper also attended Emory University School of Law as a Woodruff Fellow. She earned a Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in English and History in 2003 from the University of Virginia. Before joining EducationCounsel, Ms. Lipper clerked for the Honorable Norman H. Stahl, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston.