Elena currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Law at Delaware Law School, Widener University. She has also taught at Drexel University’s Kline School of Law and several senior colleges within the CUNY system, offering courses in constitutional law, civil procedure, gender and the law, and legal reasoning.

She earned her J.D. magna cum laude from Cardozo School of Law, where she was a Public Service Scholar and Articles Editor of the Cardozo Law Review. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Theory from the CUNY Graduate Center, with a dissertation focused on erotic justice and comparative constitutional law. Her academic work explores how power and identity intersect with the law, and she has published widely in both legal and interdisciplinary journals.

A former President of the National Lawyers Guild, Elena has coordinated the legal defense of thousands of protestors and continues to advocate for systemic reform. She frequently speaks on topics ranging from protest policing to gender bias in the legal field, and has contributed to major academic volumes on comparative constitutionalism and religious freedom.

Whether in the courtroom or the classroom, Elena is driven by a commitment to justice, liberation, and empowering the next generation of legal thinkers and movement lawyers.