Elle M. Cree, JD (she/her)
Elle is a Seattle-based civil rights advocate, legal educator, and nonprofit leader with more than 30 years of active legal experience in Civil Rights, Victim Advocacy, diversion practices, employment and labor law.
She has presented numerous continuing legal education programs and trainings focused on equity, disability accommodation, and safer workplaces for marginalized communities.
A longtime BIPOC community member and descendant of Cree, Choctaw, Cherokee, and Freedmen peoples, Elle’s work sits at the intersection of racial justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and LGBTQ+ liberation.
A recent transplant to Seattle, she was relocated in 2024 through TRACTION; by moving here, she has been able to help create Stone Soup Crew, a weekly mutual aid project serving unhoused neighbors—many of them transgender community members—at Cal Anderson Park. She serves as a vice president and board member with TRACTION. She speaks candidly about the fear many transgender people carry just to live their daily lives today, especially as a transgender woman who is herself a survivor of domestic abuse and military sexual trauma.
Elle has held senior roles in human resources and labor relations, including public-sector work developing ADA accommodation procedures and leading interactive processes for employees with disabilities. Across nonprofit and government spaces, she is known for translating complex law into practical tools for front-line workers, and for building accountable, trauma‑aware systems of support.
Most recently, Elle’s advocacy has centered on transgender safety, community storytelling, and mutual aid as a pragmatic response to state and interpersonal violence. She brings a grounded, accessible speaking style informed by decades of courtroom, classroom, and community experience, with a focus on helping audiences move from abstract values to concrete action.
