Diana Kasdan is Legal and Policy Director for the Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy at UCLA Law. In this role, Diana will help lead the team’s legal and policy initiatives and engagement with academics, advocates, policymakers, and community members to reimagine the landscape of reproductive health law and policy.

Before joining CRHLP, Diana was Director of U.S. Judicial Strategy at the Center for Reproductive Rights. There, Diana conceived and led strategies to build stronger constitutional jurisprudence and legal rights for reproductive autonomy over the long-term, including development of original legal research, analysis and publications, amicus campaigns, and thematic convenings of scholars and legal advocacy partners.

For over a decade prior, Diana litigated, advocated, and researched in the areas of reproductive rights, prisoners’ rights, and voting rights at the ACLU and Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. Diana has written and published on reproductive rights, including most recently as a co-author on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: Reckoning With its Impact and Charting a Path Forward, 25 U. Penn. J. Const. Law (2023) and the chapter, Human Rights and Abortion Access for People Living in Poverty: Implications for the United States and Globally, in Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021).

Diana clerked for the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York and received her J.D. from New York University School of Law where she was a member of the NYU Law Review, a Hays Civil Liberties Fellow, and a student legal advocate in the Immigrant Rights Clinic and the Civil Rights Clinic. She received her B.A. from Washington University.