Kelsey Myers joined the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation as a Clinical Fellow with the Health Law and Policy Clinic in August 2026. She previously worked in policy, legislation, and communications at the United States Senate and for state non-profits that concerned sexual violence, gun violence prevention, and multiple sclerosis in Minnesota and Pennsylvania; she has also worked with the University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Center and international healthcare organizations. Kelsey has additionally held professional roles in field work and development for federal Democratic political campaigns in targeted regions across the United States. She advocates for the healthcare needs of vulnerable people and communities, especially children and youth; LGBTQ+ people; women; and survivors of sexual, family, and institutional abuse. She works to promote a holistic vision of health, which includes individual safety, the development of healthy communities, and wraparound support during times of crisis.
As a student attorney, Kelsey worked for plaintiffs’ law firms in practice groups associated with complex and traumatic personal injury, medical malpractice, institutional abuse, civil rights, and wrongful death. She additionally worked as a student intern for the Children’s Justice Unit in the Civil Rights Division of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. She served on the Executive Board of her law school’s Plaintiffs’ Law Association and on the Reproductive Justice Initiative of the Mississippi Delta Project (a student practice organization providing legal support to communities in northwestern Mississippi). Kelsey also held a variety of roles with her law school’s Journal of Law & Gender, where she assisted with the publication of scholarship concerning workplace accommodations for menstruation and menopause under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Finally, Kelsey was an advanced clinical student attorney at the Health Law & Policy Clinic and worked for the Impact Litigation and Health Care Access practice groups. In these roles, she collaborated closely with the Chronic Illness & Disease Partnership and Johns Hopkins Medicine; she also contributed to significant litigation like Soe v. Louisiana and BAGLY v. U.S.
Kelsey earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Economics and Politics Science from St. Olaf College.
