Kendall is the director of the Fund for Alternative Journalism, a nonprofit dedicated to reinvigorating local media. She also writes about gender and the law, primarily for The Stranger, and she teaches classes on constitutional law to incarcerated people earning their college degrees through the Bard Prison Initiative.

In her former life as a lawyer, she successfully argued criminal justice and reproductive rights cases before the Supreme Court and other courts, and she tried to get the federal judiciary to improve how it handles workplace misconduct. Kendall taught law students at Stanford and the University of Washington, and she clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court and then-Chief Judge Merrick Garland on the D.C. Circuit. She also appeared on some lists that she ultimately thinks are silly but that she 100% told her parents about.

Kendall is a graduate of Princeton and Stanford. You can learn more about her work here.