Kathleen Konopka, Esq., serves as Legal Director for the Global Health Advocacy Incubator, a nonprofit organization operating to pass, defend, and enforce public health policies in over 30 countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Previously, Ms. Konopka served as Deputy Attorney General for the District of Columbia. In this capacity, she oversaw the Public Advocacy Division and the entire affirmative civil portfolio of the Attorney General.
Ms. Konopka has served as Senior Enforcement Counsel in the Social Justice Division for the New York Attorney General, as a senior litigator in both the Antitrust Division and the Consumer Protection Branch of the US Department of Justice, and as Counsel in two national plaintiff-side class action law firms, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, PLLC, and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP. She has also served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia in the criminal and civil divisions. Ms. Konopka has contributed to panels on antitrust and government enforcement issues for the DC Bar, the American Bar Association, and the American Antitrust Institute.
Ms. Konopka received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College and her Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Nan R. Shuker on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.