As Deputy Director of the Health and Economic Security unit, Kelly Lou advocates for individuals living with disabilities so they may access and maintain public benefits, building towards economic security in their lives. Kelly Lou also leads the unit’s Health Policy Program focusing on health equity and the social determinants of health outcomes impacting historically excluded communities in Alameda County.

Before joining EBCLC, Kelly Lou was the Director of the Office of Sexual Harassment Assault Response and Prevention at the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. She previously served as Legal Director for Transgender, Gender Variant and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP) advocating for the human rights of incarcerated transgender people. She was also the Legal Advocacy Fellow at Justice Now where she represented people in California’s women’s prisons on medical parole cases and provided health access advocacy.