Chrysta Daebler (she/her/hers) joined the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center in September 2022. Ms. Daebler earned her law degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law in 2022. During law school, Ms. Daebler worked as a Scholar Advocate for Professor Eric K. Yamamoto and offered contributions to his most recent book, Healing the Persisting Wounds of Historic Injustice: United States, South Korea and the Jeju 4.3 Tragedy. She was also a student attorney at WSRSL’s Refugee and Immigration Law Clinic and was an extern at the Hawaii State Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Ms. Daebler is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia and Maryland pursuant to Rule 19.
Prior to her legal pursuits, Ms. Daebler spent nearly a decade in the food and beverage industry and earned the designations of Certified Specialist of Wine and Certified Specialist of Spirits from the Society of Wine Educators. Ms. Daebler earned a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Oklahoma in 2009.
