Johanna Robinson, a third-year student at Harvard Law School, will be assisting NCYL Senior Attorney Bill Grimm with the Clark K. case to reform foster care in Clark County, NV. Joanna will also be working with Senior Attorney Leecia Welch to expand NCYL’s Fight for Your Rights handbook, designed to educate foster youth about rights and services available to them.

Joanna is a committee chair on the Harvard Law Public Interest Auction, which raises money for students who want to do summer clerkships in the public interest sector. Johanna is also a member of the Harvard Child Advocacy Program, which provides classes and clinical programs for students interested in gaining experience in youth law.

As a 2008 law clerk at O’Melveny & Meyers in Los Angeles, Johanna reviewed policies for Women for Women International, an organization dedicated to helping women survivors of war. The summer prior she researched and wrote on trademark infringement and contract matters as an associate for Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe, also in Los Angeles.

Johanna graduated with distinction from Cornell University in May 2006, where she double majored in Economics and Psychology. At Cornell University, Johanna worked as an Economics Research Assistant for the Johnson Graduate School of Management. She studied the effects of successful collegiate athletic programs on university alumni donations, as well as on the quality and quantity of prospective student applicants.

Sun Young Lee who graduated last spring from CUNY Law School in New York, NY, is assisting NCYL Deputy Director Patrick Gardner with litigation and research in the area of children’s mental health.

While at CUNY, Sunny was a Legal Assistant at the New York Office of the Attorney General, working directly under the Special Deputy Attorney General for Civil Rights. She assisted on cases involving civil rights, racial justice, and landlord/tenant disputes. Sunny also spent a year as a public policy intern for New York’s City’s Long-Term Care Community Coalition, researching and writing legislation on behalf of the city’s elderly. Sunny also served as Vice President of CUNY’s Asian Pacific American Law Student Association.

Sunny received her BA from Barnard College in 2003. While in college, she spent three years working as a bilingual (Korean) peer educator for the Asian Pacific Islanders Coalition for HIV/AIDS (APICHA) in New York City. At the same time, she volunteered as a group coordinator for the Asian Youth Program, collaborating with the New York Asian Women’s Center to help child victims of domestic violence.