Kristen Friel Spitzer

Kristen Friel Spitzer is a senior associate in the corporate finance group at Skadden Arps in NYC. She has focused her pro bono legal practice on non-profit organizations that serve individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and has been volunteering with organizations in the I/DD space for years. As she states, “as I look towards next steps in my career, I am looking to pair my legal experience, which spans corporate finance and private credit, mergers and acquisitions, and non-profit corporate governance and liability management, with my passion for disability advocacy/inclusion, education and programming.” She has two family members on the spectrum.