Cathy Sakimura joined the National Center for Lesbian Rights' staff as an Equal Justice Works Fellow in 2006. Her project is to improve access to family law services for low-income same-sex parent families, with a focus on increasing services to families of color. She received her J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law in 2006. During law school, she worked with Legal Services for Children, the ACCESS Self-Help Center of the San Francisco Superior Court, and NCLR. Prior to law school, she worked at Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere, organizing programs for children of same-sex parents. She was also the Program Director at Gay-Straight Alliance Network, where she empowered young people to combat harassment in their schools and participated in a multi-organization project linking work against homophobia with work against racism.