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Podcast: East Anchorage Book Club with Andrew Gray
Episode: Caitlin Shortell: Anchorage civil rights attorney on marriage equality
Description: Send us Fan MailCaitlin Shortell was born and raised in Anchorage. She returned home after earning her law degree at Northeastern University in Boston and worked as an Assistant Public Defender at the Alaska Public Defender Agency (2003); as an Assistant Attorney General at the Alaska Attorney General's Office (2004-2008); and as Human Rights Advocate at the Alaska State Commission for Human Rights (2008-2009). Ms. Shortell, along with two other attorneys, was plaintiff's counsel in Hamby v. Parnell (2014), the case that secured same sex couples the right to marry in Alaska. Â Five years after winning the lawsuit t...