Ivy Lee

Advisory Board Member

Ivy Lee serves as San Francisco Mayor London N. Breed's policy advisor in the areas of public safety and victims' rights. In this role, Ivy leads the work to develop alternatives to a police response, strengthen the system of victim services, and support criminal justice reforms. Prior, Ivy performed legislative and policy work in the offices of former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim and Board of Supervisors President Norman Yee, such as establishing the first free college tuition program in the U.S., passing a universal early education program, banning criminal record inquiries for applicants of affordable housing and in private employment, and establishing job security for hospitality workers after a change in ownership or management. After graduating from NYU School of Law in 1998, Ivy was the first Asian American Thurgood Marshall Fellow at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and an immigrant rights attorney at the Asian Law Caucus before joining the Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, where she founded and led the Immigrant Rights and Human Trafficking project for almost 10 years, representing immigrant women, children, and men who were also survivors of trafficking or other serious crimes.