Kendra Tanacea, Senior Attorney Mediator

Kendra Tanacea (she/her), a certified mediator since 2007, has mediated numerous cases for Marin County Superior Court, San Francisco Superior Court, the Northern District of California and the California Civil Rights Department’s dispute resolution program. Kendra is trained in community conflict resolution and has done this work for the California Lawyers for the Arts Mediation Services, the San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints, and the California Civil Rights Department’s Community Conflict Resolution Unit. She received advanced mediation training at Harvard Law School’s Executive Education Mediation Intensive, the U.S. Northern District Court and U.C. Hastings College of the Law (now U.C. College of the Law, SF). During her thirty years of private practice, she litigated and tried employment cases, including race and gender discrimination class actions. She earned a B.A. in English and American Studies from Wellesley College, a J.D. from U.C. Hastings College of the Law, and an MFA in literature and writing from Bennington College