LORI RIFKIN - LITIGATION DIRECTOR

Lori Rifkin leads the Impact Fund’s litigation practice.  Lori has two decades of experience litigating impact civil rights cases as an attorney in the public and private sectors.  She has led complex class action and individual lawsuits to success through all phases of pre-trial, trial, and appellate work.  

Prior to joining the Impact Fund as Litigation Director in 2024, Lori ran Rifkin Law Office, a civil rights practice based in Oakland, California.  She is a former partner of the civil rights law firm Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai LLP and also worked as a Senior Trial Attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ).  Lori also advised the DOJ as part of the Civil Rights Division’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Intersex (LGBTI) Workgroup.

Lori previously served as a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Unions (ACLU) of Connecticut and Southern California, an associate at the civil rights law firm Rosen, Bien, Galvan & Grunfeld, LLP, and an attorney at the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center (now Legal Aid at Work).  She graduated from New York University School of Law and received her undergraduate degree from Harvard College.