Several former NCYL law clerks have recently passed the California Bar and have been admitted to practice, including Lynn Wu (see photo at right), Anna Krieger, Brittany Armstrong, and Jenny Yelin. (We may be unaware of other NCYL alumni who passed the Bar, so this just a partial list – please let us know!).
Julian Darwell, an undergraduate Arthur Liman fellow at NCYL in summer 2005, recently organized and moderated a large panel on education in the juvenile justice system, bringing researchers and youth advocates together. Julian is in his first year of law school at NYU and previously worked at Children’s Rights in NYC.
Sujung Kim, a law clerk at NCYL in 1994, is trying cases with the San Francisco Public Defender’s office after a 7 ½ year hiatus from trial work. She is married to a fellow criminal defense attorney and they have two children, a 7-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son.
A NCYL law clerk in 1999, Caroline Jacobs continues to work as a staff attorney in the Motions Unit of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to that, Caroline worked for five years at Disability Rights Advocates. She was married last year.
Former NCYL law clerk Sunny Rosenfeld Lerner continues her work on prison health care reform as attorney for the receiver in pending federal court litigation. She is also a donor to NCYL.
A NCYL law clerk in 1992, Judy Lin and her husband, Mike, are the proud parents of two young children, Shayla and Maya. They live in Seattle, WA.
Sara Craig-Scheckman, a NCYL law clerk in 1994, is Director of the Youth Advocacy Project of Routt County (YAP) in Steamboat Springs, CO. Sara is also founder, with husband, Michael, of the Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation, which provides the funding for YAP. YAP gives long-term funding and hands-on development support to non-profit, youth-serving agencies throughout Routt County, with the goal of helping sustain the services provided by these agencies to special needs, at-risk, and/or low income youth. Sara is also a generous donor to NCYL. The Craig-Scheckmans have four daughters, ranging in age from 11 to 25.
A NCYL law clerk in 2001, Avani Mehta Sood and her husband, Atul, recently announced the birth of their son, Ishaan. Avani is pursuing her doctorate at Princeton University.
The Founding Editor of Youth Law News, Diana Stone, lives in Seattle and is the Director of Initiatives at the Seattle-King County Asset Building Collaborative. She has three sons, two of whom are in college. Her husband, Jim, works at Microsoft.
