Kara Dansky

Kara Dansky majored in political science for her Batchelor of Arts from Johns Hopkins University. She has also been awarded a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law. She worked as a public defender in Seattle before taking the position of Executive Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center at Stanford Law School and was then employed as Senior Advisor at the Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at the Department of Homeland Security.

She was Senior Counsel at the Center for Justice at the ACLU from 2012-to 2014 and worked as Senior Advisor at New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice. Kara was a member of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Liberation Front from 2016 to 2020. She was widely recognized as a US national expert in criminal law and criminal justice policy and was General Counsel for the Washington DC Sentencing Commission until she was forced out in 2020 following a campaign against her activism. Kara was President of the Board of Directors of Women’s Declaration USA from 2021 to 2024.

Kara writes on Substack at The TERF Report and serves on the board of Democrats for an Informed Approach. She is the author of The Reckoning: How the Democrats and the Left Betrayed Women and Girls (2023) and The Abolition of Sex: How the ‘Transgender’ Agenda Harms Women and Girls (2021). TERFLandia: How the Global Terven Will Win the Gender Wars is her third book.