Rebekah Evenson is the director of litigation and advocacy at Bay Area Legal Aid, where she oversees all BayLegal impact litigation, including a statewide challenge to the DMV's practice of suspending the driver’s licenses of people who cannot afford to pay traffic fines, an action challenging San Jose's failure to follow state law regarding development of affordable housing, and a suit on behalf of low-income San Francisco residents fighting to maintain affordable housing. Before joining BayLegal, Rebekah was a senior staff attorney with the Prison Law Office, where she served as lead counsel in numerous institutional reform cases, including a case on behalf of more than 100,000 prisoners who successfully challenged the practice of imposing race-based lockdowns in California prisons (Mitchell v. Cate) and a case filed under the ADA on behalf of more than 8,000 prisoners with disabilities (Armstrong v. Brown). She was co-counsel for the plaintiffs in Brown v. Plata, in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that California must reduce prison crowding by approximately 50,000 prisoners. Before the Prison Law Office, Rebekah was an associate at the labor and civil rights law firm, Altshuler Berzon LLP, where she litigated human rights, civil liberties, environmental, and labor cases, and before that she served as a Skadden fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. Rebekah is a graduate of Yale Law School and served as a law clerk to former Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.