Keren is the Executive Director of the National Immigrant Justice Center. Prior to assuming this role in July 2026, Keren was the director of NIJC’s federal litigation practice. In that role, she focused on challenges to anti-immigrant government policies, including DHS’s efforts to limit access to asylum and its practice of making warrantless immigration arrests without probable cause. She also worked on many challenges to policies that cut off access to a fair review process in the immigration system. Before joining NIJC’s litigation team, Keren was a member of NIJC’s LGBTQ Immigrant Rights Initiative and its Adult Detention Project, where she focused on detained representation and circuit court appeals. She primarily represented LGBTQ people seeking asylum and for people at risk of persecution and torture in their home countries because of their mental health. Keren is a graduate of Columbia Law School and the University of Chicago. Following law school, Keren clerked at the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. She is licensed to practice law in the state of Illinois.