Who We Are
ATLAST was created by Kathleen Kim and Dan Werner co-authors of Civil Litigation on Behalf of Human Trafficking Victims, in response to a growing need for ongoing education and technical assistance to attorneys and advocates assisting trafficked individuals in civil litigation.
Kathleen Kim, ATLAST co-director and co-founder
Kathleen Kim is Associate Professor of Law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles (link to www.lls.edu). Before joining Loyola, Kathleen founded and directed the Human Trafficking Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights in San Francisco with a Skadden Fellowship. The project was the first of its kind to focus on the civil needs of trafficked persons through litigation, policy advocacy and outreach. In 2005, Kathleen became the inaugural Immigrants’ Rights Teaching Fellow at Stanford Law School where she taught and supervised law students in the representation of indigent immigrants in deportation proceedings and other immigration matters. Kathleen is a member of the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery coordinated by the California Attorney General’s office. She received her J.D. from Stanford Law School.
Dan Werner, ATLAST co-director and co-founder
Dan Werner is the Legal Director of Workers Rights Law Center of New York (link to url: http://workersrightsny.org), which he co-founded after six years as an attorney with Farmworker Legal Services of New York, Inc. Before he began representing farmworkers in New York, Dan received a NAPIL (now called Equal Justice Works) Equal Justice Fellowship to represent citrus harvest workers in Florida. In total, Dan has been a farmworker advocate in six states, including with the United Farm Workers in California. He is a 1996 graduate of the University at Buffalo School of Law.