Katherine Alteneder has been the Executive Director of the Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN) since 2013. During her tenure, SRLN has grown from being a small unfunded project hosted by the National Center for State Courts to an independent national backbone organization with more than 2,000 members who work daily to get people the legal help they need, when and where they need it, and in a format they can use. Before joining SRLN, Ms. Alteneder spent her career in Alaska, initially as a trial court law clerk and then as a legal aid lawyer. In 2001, Ms. Alteneder joined the Alaska Court System to serve as the Founding Director of the nation's first comprehensive phone and internet based court self-help center. In 2008, Ms. Alteneder established a successful unbundled practice and founded the first Unbundled Law Section of a state bar. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, and Seattle University School of Law. She resides in Virginia.