About me
Elizabeth Hendren is Advocacy Counsel at Sexual Violence Law Center, where she leads legislative advocacy in addition to representing survivors in their protection order, criminal privacy, and family law matters. In 2012, she created the Reentry Initiated through Services and Education (RISE) Project at Northwest Justice Project, which provided comprehensive civil legal services to currently and formerly incarcerated survivors. Elizabeth managed RISE for over ten years, operating two monthly family law clinics in Washington Corrections Center for Women as well as Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women, in addition to representing formerly incarcerated mothers in their family law and civil protection order issues across the state. Elizabeth serves by appointment on the Washington State Supreme Court Gender & Justice Commission, where she chairs the Incarceration, Gender & Justice Committee. In 2012 she was the recipient of the Seattle University Leadership for Justice Fellowship, and in 2017 she was a recipient of the Washington Young Lawyers Committee Public Service and Leadership Award, as well as Northwest Justice Project’s Innovation Award.