Kate Kimpel

Katherine "Kate" Kimpel
Senior Editor, Shattering the Ceiling
Founder, KK Advising PLLC

Kate has dedicated her legal career to shattering ceilings for women and breaking down walls for people of color and LGBTQ, incarcerated, immigrant and undocumented communities. After serving as a Named and Managing Partner and growing her prior firm into one of the preeminent employment discrimination law firms in the country, Kate founded KK Advising. There, she leverages her experience litigating and winning some of the largest employment matters in U.S. history on behalf of CEOs, COOs, General Counsels, Senior HR Executives, and other senior leaders and attorneys from Fortune 500 corporations and law firms.

Kate is often asked to write for national news outlets, legal publications, and for women’s organizations, and Kate has served as an expert on gender and pregnancy discrimination for national news and radio. Kate regularly presents to the EEOC, the American Bar Association, and various law and business schools -- providing trainings on gender, race and LGBTQ discrimination; wage and hour and fair-pay laws; and other employer-based anti-discrimination efforts. Kate also teaches a course at Yale Law School on the enforcement of anti-discrimination laws and serves on the Board of the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Kate previously served as Special Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Rights.

The National Law Journal named Kate one of the 75 most accomplished female attorneys working in the legal professions today, and Mashable named Kate one of the “eleven incredible women in law promoting social justice for all.” Before becoming a lawyer, Kate was a fourth-grade teacher for the DC Public Schools. She is a graduate of Yale Law School and Vassar College.