Bio
Salina Isaq received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and her J.D. from the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco where she completed a concentration in Social Justice Lawyering.
Ms. Isaq’s practice area is in Employment Law (FEHA & Title VII), Education Civil Rights (Title IX), and Community Lawyering and Organizing. She is the Managing Attorney for the Direct Legal Services program and a Staff Attorney on the litigation team at Equal Rights Advocates (“ERA”). In her role, she brings impact litigation on behalf of workers and runs a nationwide Advice & Counseling legal helpline for hundreds of students and workers experiencing gender-based violence or discrimination. Before ERA, Ms. Isaq worked as a Plaintiff’s attorney for Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams, LLP and Legal Aid at Work where she represented workers across California. Ms. Isaq currently leads the research efforts for Berkeley Law’s Survivor Advocacy Project where she and her students pioneer creative approaches to novel legal issues ranging from abortion access under Title IX post-Dobbs to AI misuse in employment law.
Ms. Isaq brings her experience as a community organizer and rape crisis counselor to her practice as a civil rights attorney. Extensively trained in Critical Race Theory, her approach to addressing employment- and education-based violence is rooted in intersectional feminist politics, which informs her client-centered and trauma-informed approaches to legal advocacy.