Kira Brekke is a civil rights attorney. Prior to law school, she worked as a producer, writer and editor at ThinkProgress and The Huffington Post covering news, politics, LGBTQI equality and social justice.

Kira graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Southern California with an honor's degree in Broadcast and Digital journalism, and a minor in Human Rights with an emphasis in LGBTQ studies. While in college, she worked for Chain Camera Pictures on the Academy Award-nominated documentary, "The Invisible War," which revealed the epidemic of sexual assault in the U.S military.