Impact at CLIPI
While at Cal Berkeley Law School, Dorn served as a CLIPI law student intern, and then, after graduating, joined CLIPI as a law clerk and then as a fellow. While at CLIPI, he worked on the Watts Towers litigation and other litigation.
After CLIPI, Dorn focused his career on health care issues affecting low-income communities. Working on impact litigation at the National Health Law Program in Los Angeles, Dorn led litigation which resulted in providing crucial family planning following state codes. Later, he transitioned to policy advocacy and worked at the Children's Defense Fund. He has played important roles in advocating for Medicaid coverage for children and families, creating the Children's Health Insurance Program, enacting of a bipartisan Health Coverage Tax Program for laid-off workers, and streamlining enrollment into health programs, defeating efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and increasing ACA subsidies for low-income families.
