Jenny Yelin is working with Senior Attorney Pat Arthur on Juvenile Justice issues, including NCYL’s efforts to ban life without parole for juveniles in California.

Jenny is in her second year at UC Berkeley School of Law. She is on the California Law Review and the Leadership Committee for the Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Youth Policy Committee. Before attending law school, Jenny was a paralegal for the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society in the Bronx, NY.  She assisted attorneys with writing and legal research, interviewed children charged with delinquency and those who suffered abuse and neglect.  Jenny also advocated for benefits and services for children in foster care.

Jenny, a native of San Francisco, graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 2004 with a BA in History.  

Anna Krieger is a third-year law student at UC Berkeley, where she is an editor of the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice.  She is working with Senior Attorney Rebecca Gudeman on adolescent health care and reproductive rights, and with Staff Attorney Bryn Martyna on Clark K. v. Willden, NCYL’s foster care reform case in Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada.  

Last summer, Anna clerked with Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, where she helped prepare a case on school desegregation in the Berkeley Unified School District. Before that, Anna worked with the East Bay Community Law Center in Berkeley, CA, advocating for low-income, HIV-positive claimants and dependent children.  In summer 2007, Anna clerked for the LGBT & HIV Division of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission.    

Anna received her BA in Philosophy with honors from Haverford College in 2002. After college, Anna was selected as an Emerson National Hunger Fellow for the Congressional Hunger Center in Washington, DC.  During the fellowship, she worked as a researcher and community organizer.

NCYL is sponsoring Anna for an Equal Justice Works fellowship that would begin next fall.  

Lani Molina is a communications intern assisting NCYL’s Communication Director Tracy Schroth.  In addition to her work at NCYL, Lani is a Substitute Teacher for the Alameda Unified School District, where she teaches all academic subjects to grades K-12.  As head coach of the Encinal High School (Alameda, CA) water polo team, Lani mentors students and “works to make them mentally and physically strong.”  

Lani graduated from UC Berkeley with High Honors in 2007 with a BA in Psychology.  While in college, Lani volunteered for Digital Underground Story Telling for Youth (D.U.S.T.Y.), an afterschool literacy program, teaching elementary school children how to use technology to discuss issues affecting their community.  She also worked as an Interpretive Aide for the East Bay Regional Park District in Alameda, CA, designing and performing programs to educate families and youth on ecology.  

Last summer, Lani shaved her head and donated 20 inches of hair to Locks of Love, an organization that makes and donates wigs to children with cancer.