Jake Christensen - SF LGBT Center

Jake joined the Center board in fall 2023. Prior to his current role at Zoom, Jake was a complex litigation Associate at ArentFox Schiff LLP, where he managed the SF office’s pro bono program and served as outside counsel to three Bay Area non-profits. Before law school, Jake was an admission counselor at the University of Iowa, where he coordinated campus visits for minority and under-represented youth and led an effort that resulted in the university adding sexual orientation and gender self-identification questions to its admission application, the first public university in the U.S. to do so.

Jake lives in Civic Center. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. with honors in German and Religious Studies, and earned his J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law, where he was a student attorney in the criminal defense clinic and taught constitutional law to D.C. high school students through the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. He grew up in Audubon, Iowa, and splits time between SF and Palm Springs. In his free time, you’ll find Jake at Barry’s, visiting wine country, and traveling. You can find Jake on LinkedIn.