Tessa Baizer
Associate
- Education:
Washington University in St. Louis, B.A.
Columbia Law School, J.D.
- Bar Admissions:
California
- Court Admissions:
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Central, Northern & Southern Districts of California
TESSA BAIZER joined Strumwasser & Woocher in 2025 after a fellowship in the Human Rights Litigation Clinic at UCLA School of Law, where she worked on cases in both domestic and international fora addressing a variety of civil and human rights issues, including conditions in confinement, immigrants’ rights, First Amendment retaliation, and corporate accountability.
Prior to her work at UCLA, Tessa represented low-income tenants in the Bay Area in eviction and fair housing matters. She also engaged in policy advocacy that secured wins on a range of housing equity issues, including improving conditions in Permanent Supportive Housing complexes and increasing affordable housing production in Santa Clara County.
Tessa graduated from Columbia Law School in 2020, where she served as the Notes Editor for the Columbia Journal of Race and Law. During law school, she interned at the Center for Constitutional Rights; Schonbrun, Seplow, Harris and Hoffman, LLP; and International Rights Advocates. She also worked as a research assistant for Professors Benjamin Hoffman, Katherine Franke, and James Liebman.
Before law school, Tessa worked for human rights and economic justice organizations in Thailand, Brazil, Hawaiʻi, and Washington, DC.