Alumni in Residence with Colin Stretch J.D. ’96 of Etsy, Inc.

Friday, March 27, 2026, from 11:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. ET

The Alumni in Residence program connects current HLS students with accomplished HLS alumni for one-on-one career mentoring and advice. You’re invited to meet with Colin Stretch J.D. ’96 during their virtual office hours. Sign up for a 20-minute Zoom appointment.  

Colin Stretch is Etsy’s Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, responsible for overseeing Etsy’s legal, policy, and advocacy functions.

Colin is also the former General Counsel of Facebook (now Meta), where he worked from 2010-2019. After leaving Facebook, Colin served as Leader-in-Residence at Columbia University Law School’s Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character & Leadership and was an Executive-in-Residence at Columbia Business School. He joined Etsy in February 2023.

Earlier in his career, Colin clerked for Justice Stephen G. Breyer on the United States Supreme Court and Judge Laurence H. Silberman on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He also was a partner at Kellogg, Hansen, Figel & Frederick, a Washington DC law firm, and was a member of the Honors Program in the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice.