Deepali Gill, J.D. Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco Bay Area

• Staffed, set agenda, and lead monthly CARE (Coverage Advocates for Reproductive Equity) Coalition meeting to engage, implement, and learn about coalition members legislative priorities.
• Developed factsheets and toolkits for contraceptive equity legislation at the state level as well as for the community advisory board.
• Conducted landscape analysis of Family Planning State Plan Amendment and waiver policy environments.
• Wrote blog posts that highlighted contraceptive inequity as well as best practices to close those gaps.
• Meet with the ACLU of Illinois monthly to determine research and discovery needs related to addressing religious refusals pertaining to contraceptive access.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked in a woman-and minority-led organization focused on dismantling systems of oppression andracism.
• Prepared legal memoranda and conducted legal research focused on advancing economic justice.
• Attended client interviews through a direct services program, Legal Services for Entrepreneurs, whichworks with business owners who are starting or have an existing business.
• Participated in policy advocacy by attending coalition meetings, writing memoranda centered aroundspecific policies, and working with lawmakers and partner organizations to pass legislation.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Worked with Vera and Vera’s partners to complete a review of court files of young people detained in Los Angeles Juvenile Halls and Camps while they were pregnant in order to understand pathways that lead to detention.
• Reviewed case files and took notes on girls and gender-expanisve youth confined while pregnant.
• Assisted with coding and analysis.
• Debriefed with supervisor and full project team as well as complied with IRB-related privacy and confidentiality requirements.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Organized client files for expert witness in a database, by instituting filing procedures for physical and digital materials to ensure efficiency.
• Updated contacts and other required information in database regularly.
• Coordinated with outside counsel to execute retainer agreements, schedule appointments, as well as receiving and sending all files relevant to current client cases.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Conducted client intakes in order to identify if there is a case to be opened.
• Prepared declarations, initial drafts of pleadings, briefs, and dissolution documents.
• Attended court hearings with supervising attorney.
• Communicated with clients regarding updates about their case and answer any questions they may have.
• Maintained communication with opposing counsel and court staff as needed.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Assisted with projects focused on ensuring that Californians have access to services, information, and other support to make decisions about intimate relationships and reproduction free from discrimination.
• Drafted and created a Know Your Right’s guide for SB 357 and presented it to coalition partners.
• Updated and wrote a portion of The Reproductive Health Behind Bars report regarding reentry barriers.
• Drafted pieces of a student toolkit for AB 367; conducted legal and factual research.
• Participated in staff meetings, strategy meetings with coalition partners, and monthly program meetings

San Francisco, California, United States

• Interned for the Deputy Public Defender in the Juvenile delinquency unit.
• Engaged in client intakes and daily courtroom experience.
• Interacted one on one contact with client’s and their families.
• Drafted motions and submitted notes of investigation results that consisted of police body cam footage.

San Francisco, California, United States

• Developed and filed various court documents in employment right cases including pleadings, invoices, motions, briefs, discovery documents, memoranda and enclosures at attorney’s request to support the litigation.
• Analyzed law sources that included statutes, recorded judicial decisions, legal articles and California Civil Code.
• Observed and participated in client meetings, mediations and depositions.

Manteca, California, United States

• Collaborated with teachers in their classroom for student needs that ranged from providing instructional support, organizing lesson plans and rendering reinforcement activities.
• Observed at-promise students throughout the day to enforce a safe and positive learning environment, while identifying and recording their behavioral patterns every day to track their progress and help them achieve.
• Developed the first book club at Manteca Community Day School that was centered around young adult fiction, keeping in mind the population that was being served.
• Cultivated student attendance records, made copies, filed progress reports, corrected daily classwork and etc.

Doctor Of Law - Jd

Activities and Societies: •Staff Writer for Golden Gate University Race, Gender, Sexuality, & Social Justice Law Journal (2022-2023).

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature/Letters