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Deferred Associate
Mental Health, Juvenile Justice
Primary office: Oakland, CA
Email: mcalder(at)youthlaw.org
Phone: (510) 835-8098, x 3018
Fax: (510) 835-8099
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Mari Calder is a 2009 graduate of UC Berkeley School of Law. She has chosen to take a year-long deferral from Hogan & Hartson LLP to work at NCYL. During law school, Mari volunteered in underserved communities through Community Legal Outreach’s health and public benefits clinics and was on the Berkeley Technology & Law Journal. She also clerked at the Federal Trade Commission, where she focused on consumer protection and antitrust matters.
Mari grew up in Princeton, NJ and received her undergraduate degree from Harvard, where she majored in Government. She is fluent in Japanese and took time off from college to work as a reporter for the Tokyo Bureau of Time Magazine, doing news and features about politics, youth, and technology, among other subjects. While living in Tokyo, Mari also volunteered at the Japan Civil Liberties Union. After college, Mari worked concurrently at the Harvard Program on U.S.-Japan Relations and the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, researching and writing about immigrants, political economy, and comparative non-profit law.
In addition to working at NCYL, Mari is volunteering at the Cooperative Restraining Order Clinic in San Francisco, a non-profit that provides legal support to survivors of domestic violence. At NCYL, she is working with attorneys Zahra Hayat and Patrick Gardner to ensure that foster children receive necessary mental health care. She is also working with attorney Pat Arthur on juvenile justice reform. In December 2010, Mari will become an associate at the Washington, D.C. office of Hogan & Hartson.
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