Elizabeth Hendren (she/her)

Advocacy Counsel

Elizabeth Hendren comes to us after working for over ten years as a family law attorney for currently and formerly incarcerated mothers. As a law student, she co-founded the Incarcerated Mothers Advocacy Project in 2010, working with students at Seattle University and University of Washington to provide family law information and facilitated referrals to mothers in prison. In 2012, she created the Reentry Initiated through Services and Education (RISE) Project at Northwest Justice Project, which provides comprehensive civil legal services to currently and formerly incarcerated mothers to facilitate family reunification. Elizabeth managed RISE for over ten years, operating two monthly family law clinics in Washington Corrections Center for Women as well as Mission Creek Corrections Center for Women, in addition to representing formerly incarcerated mothers all over the state in their family law and civil protection order issues. Elizabeth serves by appointment on the Washington State Supreme Court Gender & Justice Commission, where she chairs the Incarceration, Gender & Justice Committee. In 2012 she was the recipient of the Seattle University Leadership for Justice Fellowship, and in 2017 she was a recipient of the Washington Young Lawyers Committee Public Service and Leadership Award, as well as Northwest Justice Project’s Innovation Award. Elizabeth received her Juris Doctorate from Seattle University School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College.

Contact: elizabeth@svlawcenter.org