Kathryn L. Tucker is recognized as a national leader in spearheading creative and effective efforts to promote improved care for seriously ill and dying patients. She has served as Director of Advocacy at a variety of nonprofit organizations including the National Psychedelics Association, the Completed Life Initiative, the End of Life Liberty Project, the Disability Rights Legal Center, Compassion & Choices, and Compassion in Dying. Tucker served as a founding member of the Psychedelic Bar Association and Co-Chair of the Litigation and Advocacy Committee. She is a Founding Member of the Initiative on Psychedelics and Healing of the Global Wellness Institute. In periods of private practice Tucker served as Special Counsel at Emerge Law Group, where she Co-Chaired the Psychedelic Practice Group and as a litigation attorney at Perkins Coie (Seattle Office). Tucker has held faculty appointments as Associate Professor of Law at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and as Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Washington, Seattle University and Lewis & Clark Schools of Law, teaching in the areas of law, medicine and ethics, with a focus on the end of life. In April 2014, Professor Tucker was named a Fulbright Specialist by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Institute of International Education’s Council for International Exchange of Scholars, to share her scholarship abroad. She served as a Fulbright Specialist with Faculty Appointments at the Universities of Auckland, Canterbury and Otago in 2015; in 2019 Tucker received another Fulbright Specialist Grant to teach at law schools in the United Kingdom.
