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Staff Attorney
Child Welfare/Foster Care
Primary office: Oakland, CA
Email: bmartyna(at)youthlaw.org
Phone: (510) 835-8098
Fax: (510) 835-8099
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Bryn Leland Martyna is a staff attorney at NCYL, specializing in child welfare/foster care. She is on NCYL’s litigation team in Braam v. Washington, and Clark K. v. Willden, two class action lawsuits to reform the foster care systems in Washington state and Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada, respectively. Bryn joined the staff in 2007 after completing a two-year Skadden Fellowship at NCYL. Bryn and NCYL Senior Attorney Bill Grimm were awarded the Voices for Children Award by the Children’s Alliance, a statewide children’s advocacy organization in Washington State. They and their co-counsel in Braam were honored for their work on the case. Bryn earned her B.A., Magna Cum Laude, from UC San Diego in 2001 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 2005. During law school, Bryn was a law clerk for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, the Santa Cruz Office of the Public Defender, the Juvenile Division of the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office, and Legal Services for Children in San Francisco.
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