Ilona Turner has a solo mediation practice and also conducts impartial workplace investigations with the Law Offices of Amy Oppenheimer. Her website is www.TurnerADR.com.

Ilona was the legal director for the national Transgender Law Center from 2012 to 2017. Prior to that she was a staff attorney at the National Center for Lesbian Rights and an associate at the labor law firm of Cohen, Weiss and Simon in New York. She has also worked for the California State Assembly and as a lobbyist for Equality California.

Ilona received her J.D. in 2006 from U.C. Berkeley, where she was managing editor of the California Law Review, and received her B.A. in 2000 from U.C. Santa Cruz. She has authored numerous articles and book chapters on sex discrimination and LGBT legal issues and is regularly invited to speak on those topics at bar associations, conferences, and law schools. She is a member of the bar in California and New York.