Elizabeth Hira

Teaches at Caveat

Elizabeth Hira is a social justice attorney who's passionate about engaging the arts for equity. In her decade as a democracy-reform attorney, she's worked in the U.S. Senate for then-Sen. Kamala Harris; in the U.S. House helping to draft H.R. 1/The For the People Act; and as a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Her work spans voting rights, gender and reproductive justice, and LGBTQ rights, and you should ask her about her new national oral history project! Elizabeth is gladly a Caveat booster and performed her first one-woman show "Pursuing Guerrilla Equality" right here. A Stanford and Georgetown Law grad, she's also a puzzle tester for The New York Times, where she's a fervent ambassador of the idea that "puzzling is for everyone." (It's literally on her personalized clipboard, which is not a babe magnet.) Born in the Caribbean, she proudly calls Brooklyn, New York home.