Please join us in welcoming our Fall 2021 adjunct faculty members!
Beena Ahmad ’10
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“I came to CUNY Law as a student because I was ready to fight for social justice, and I wanted to learn how. I returned to CUNY as an instructor to pay it forward. I stay here because our students teach us to redefine social justice and inspire us to keep fighting.”
Beena Ahmad has taught Lawyering Seminars I, II, and II-B, served as co-advisor of the CUNY Law Moot Court team, and worked with the Pipeline to Justice Program. Beena is also currently of counsel to Kunstler Law, where she provides indigent defense in federal criminal cases at the district court and appellate levels.
In 2015, Beena was a visiting researcher with the Wits Justice Project at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Prior to that, she was an associate with O’Dwyer & Bernstien, LLP, where she worked on labor and personal injury cases in the state and federal courts. Beena is a volunteer and board member of NYC Books Through Bars.
Finally, Beena is a proud alum of CUNY Law’s class of 2010. In law school, she participated in the Defenders Clinic, Moot Court, CUNY Law Review, and the Mississippi Project.
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Ana Avendaño
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Professor Ana Avendaño is a lifelong worker advocate, having held senior positions in the labor movement, playing major roles in changing the labor movement’s position on immigration, and broadening the AFL-CIO’s vision to include worker centers and other non-traditional worker organizations.
Ana led the labor movement’s efforts on international migration and served on the drafting committee of the International Labor Organization’s Convention 189, formally recognizing the workplace rights of domestic workers.
She currently runs a consulting practice, where she helps organizations design workplaces where passion and creativity thrive, and bullies do not. Ana is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center and the University of California at Berkeley. She is teaching Employment Law this fall.
Robert Briglio ’86
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Robert Briglio has practiced civil rights litigation on behalf of persons with disabilities since graduating from the inaugural class at CUNY Law School in 1986.
Most of the litigation was conducted at the Legal Services Corporation Office on Long Island. Cases involved systemic issues related to housing, receipt of health care and public benefits, access to government programs such as public transportation and pedestrian crossings, discriminatory zoning practices, public accommodation access, among other issues.
Mr. Briglio has been an administrative law judge since 1994, principally hearing matters under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act in New York City and throughout New York State.
You can email Robert here.
Johan Charles ’09
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“CUNY Law Students are the best, and it is a privilege to return to CUNY to work with amazing students who come here intending to change our world for the better.”
A public health professional and an attorney, Johan initially worked on the public health effort to decrease HIV transmission in South Africa, Cameroon, Haiti and El Salvador by implementing culturally appropriate initiatives in remote areas of these countries.
As a graduate of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, Johan focused on disparities in the healthcare system, working to decrease disparities in the quality of care that African American Medicare beneficiaries received in comparison with their White counterparts in New York State.
During her time at CUNY Law, Johan served as both president of BLSA and as a staff editor on CUNY Law Review. Since graduating from The City University of New York School of Law in 2009, Johan served as an Access to Justice Fellow in CUNY’s inaugural partnership with the New York State Unified Court System to represent tenants in eviction proceedings.
She continued this public interest work by representing tenants for three years, and survivors of intimate partner violence for four years at The Legal Aid Society of New York.
Since 2017, Johan writes decisions as an Attorney Advisor for the Social Security Administration and she also runs a part-time family law and property law practice. Johan is a co-founder and member of Confluence NYC, a group of anti-violence advocates, lawyers, survivors and scholars who focus on the way in which survivors of intimate partner violence, particularly those from traditionally marginalized communities, interact with and are served by legal services organizations and the State.
She views intimate partner violence as a crucial public health issue that cuts across different areas of the law and is proud to have created a course with Professor Julie Goldscheid that promotes an intersectional lens to addressing gender violence.
You can email Johan here.
Erin Miles Cloud
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“I am most looking forward to learning from the CUNY Students. I know they have as much to offer me as I do for them.”
Erin Miles Cloud, founding co-director of Movement for Family Power, is a dedicated advocate for families who are policed by the Foster System. She has represented over 400 parents in child protective proceedings, and supervised many more at the Bronx Defenders.
In addition to her work as a supervising attorney, Erin also was a Team Leader and special projects coordinator at the Bronx Defenders. As a Team Leader she managed an interdisciplinary team of advocates, and her special project involved the close supervision of cases where women were drug tested at birth, and the test results were used as the primary allegation of neglect. These cases represented an intersection of drug policy and reproductive justice that required advanced litigation.
In 2018, Erin was a lecturer at law at Columbia University School of Law, and the Co-Director of the Holistic Defense Clinic. She also serves on the NYS Dept of Health’s AIDS Institute and the NYC Department of Health’s Sexual and Reproductive Justice Community Engagement Group. Both committees examine the intersection of health systems, with race and structural inequality. Erin is also a collaborator for Black Mamas Matters Alliance.
Erin received her JD from Fordham University School of Law, where she was a Stein Scholar for Public Interest, and an Ann Moynihan Fellow for law and integrated Social Work. She holds a B.A. from Emory University in Spanish Language and Dance. Before attending law school, she was a public school teacher in Baltimore.
You can follow Erin on: Instagram | Twitter | Facebook
Hon. Ashlee Crawford
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“ I look forward to teaching for the first time and sharing my knowledge of legal writing and the judiciary with CUNY Law students.”
Hon. Ashlee Crawford was elected to Civil Court in New York County in 2019, and currently presides in Bronx Criminal Court.
Judge Crawford previously served as an Appellate Court Attorney at the Appellate Division, First Department, and clerked in the Commercial Division, New York County, for Hon. Barbara R. Kapnick and Hon. Saliann Scarpulla.
Judge Crawford began her legal career with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. She particularly enjoys mentoring students and rising attorneys, and demystifying the path to the bench for members of the Bar.
Dominique Day
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Professor Dominique Day is the Chair of the U.N. Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent, a fact-finding expert body that reports to the U.N. Human Rights Council.
She is a human rights attorney and the director of DAYLIGHT | Rule of Law • Access to Justice • Advocacy, which offers a multi-sector approach to intersectional racial justice work.
Her teaching, litigation, policy, research, and capacity-building focus heavily on racial justice and human rights advocacy. Dominique’s work on behalf of individuals and communities within the Black diaspora includes rule of law and access to justice issues internationally in post-conflict and transitional States. She is teaching Race and the Law this fall.
You can follow Dominique on Twitter.
Nadia Gareeb
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Professor Gareeb is a first-generation lesbian immigrant from Pakistan. She highly values access to, and the fair administration of justice. To that end, she has dedicated her legal career to enhancing access to justice.
Professor Gareeb is a member of the New York and Massachusetts State Bars with over twenty years of experience in civil legal practice focused on advancing access to justice. This includes over thirteen years of civil litigation experience with an emphasis on family and immigration law and eleven years of law-making experience with the New York State legislature.
She has trained and mentored law firm attorneys and student externs to represent low-income residents of New York State in family and immigration cases.
At the New York State Legislature, Professor Gareeb has led efforts to enact landmark law reforms involving criminal justice, indigent defense, matrimonial and family law reform (including reforms to state domestic violence, address confidentiality, divorce, maintenance/spousal support, marriage, child support, child protection, and surrogacy laws) homeowner protections, consumer protections and employee protections to name a few.
She is presently an Administrative Law Judge with the Office of Temporary Disability Assistance, where she hears cases involving various forms of public benefits in New York State.
Professor Gareeb has extensive non-profit experience specifically in anti-poverty initiatives, women’s rights, violence prevention, immigrants’ rights and international human rights. She has led a large non-profit providing civil legal services, and has served on various non-profit boards and steering committees of bar associations and human rights organizations (including Amnesty International USA) where she has participated in strategic planning, organizational restructuring efforts and financial oversight of budgets.
Having graduated from a public interest law school that emphasizes practical training and specializes in cultivating well rounded lawyering skills beyond a substantive core curriculum, Professor Gareeb recognizes the importance of foundational training for law students from the get-go that prepares them to be skilled, thoughtful and reflective lawyers that care about social justice regardless of their ultimate trajectory.
CUNY’s approach to teaching provides an exciting opportunity for her to share her expertise and be part of the foundational development of the next generation of thoughtful lawyers. Professor Gareeb is looking forward to collaborative engagement with the LFR fall class and to learning from the different perspectives that the students will bring to the coursework.
Professor Gareeb graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Middlebury College, and a Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law. Prior to her legal career, Professor Gareeb was a computer consultant.
You can email Professor Gareeb here.
Laura Gentile ’87
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“I’m here because CUNY Law students are the best in this galaxy.”
Laura Gentile has been an adjunct professor at CUNY Law since 1997, teaching NY Practice, Small Firm Practice, and Health Care Advocacy.
She is the managing attorney of Gentile & Associates, litigating medical malpractice, police misconduct and general negligence actions and serving as appellate counsel in the same areas.
She trained attorneys in the use of SAGA case management software.
For several years the author of the Small Firm Life column for the New York Law Journal, she has written a book entitled True Adventures in Capitalism. Other publications include New York Times articles: Time Bomb in Blue, Bob Herbert NY Times September 18, 1997, Family Victimized by a Stabbing and Court Delays, Stephanie Clifford, NY Times February 1, 2016, page 1.
She holds a BA from Cornell in Geology, and a JD from CUNY Law.
You can follow Laura on LinkedIn and email her here.
Jen Hope ’07 (no pic)
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Jen Hope (’07) is a seasoned litigator experienced in federal, state and local judicial and administrative bodies. Hope spent almost a decade as a Senior Trial Attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforcing federal anti-discrimination statutes, including in EEOC v. Abercrombie & Fitch Stores, Inc., 575 U.S. 768 (2015) involving Abercrombie’s refusal to hire a 15-year old Muslim because of her religious practice of wearing a hijab. Prior to the EEOC, Hope worked at a boutique labor firm in Philadelphia representing unions and their benefit funds in employment and ERISA-related litigation.
Currently, Hope serves as Of Counsel to Monroe, LLC with Matty Monroe (’08) counseling small businesses and individuals in all matters ranging from zoning/land use, construction and labor & employment. Hope’s recent representative matters include negotiating the first collective bargaining agreement for Philadelphia’s largest not-for-profit LGBTQ healthcare and community services center, and bringing a novel action against a negligent developer under Pennsylvania’s Abandoned & Blighted Property Conservatorship Act on behalf of a homeowner whose property was damaged by an illegal demolition, resulting in a significant settlement. Hope also owns and runs a jigsaw puzzle company, Puzzle So Hard, and is an amateur ceramicist and an even more amateur (but avid) croissant baker.
You can email Jen here.
Michael Jaffe
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“I believe strongly in CUNY Law’s public interest mission and feel privileged to be given the opportunity to bring my legal experience into the CUNY Law classroom.”
Michael Jaffe is an adjunct professor at CUNY, where he teaches Lawyering Seminar courses. He also taught Mortgage Law for many years at CUNY. Mr. Jaffe has practiced law for many years.
He has litigated numerous cases at both the trial and appellate level in both state and federal courts, including a recent successful antitrust case in the United States Supreme Court (Apple v. Pepper, 139 S. Ct. 1514 ( 2019)).
He is currently of counsel in Giskan Solotaroff & Anderson LLP, a Manhattan firm that specializes in representing victims of civil rights violations, consumer fraud and employment discrimination.
Prior to that, he was a partner in the firm Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP, a Manhattan-based firm, where he specialized in litigating disputes against corporations for securities fraud, violations of antitrust laws, consumer fraud, and improper denial of employee benefits.
In addition, Mr. Jaffe has taken on numerous pro bono matters in his career, including political asylum cases with the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and he has worked in the New York public schools as a volunteer mentor.
Mr. Jaffe is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied Political Science and Philosophy. Following graduation, he was awarded a President’s Undergraduate Fellowship to conduct research in France on the subject of antisemitism. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of California, Hastings College of Law.
Erin Lloyd ’06
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“As a practicing attorney, I have always loved working with the next generation of lawyers to help them see how what they’re learning at CUNY School of Law will translate into their future advocacy work, and this year is no exception!”
Erin Lloyd is a founding partner at Lloyd Patel LLP. Her practice focuses primarily on labor and employment issues as well as commercial matters.
She has successfully represented plaintiff-employees terminated for their religious beliefs, sexually harassed in the workplace, denied promotions and/or bonuses after complaining about unlawful workplace conduct, and treated differently because of their gender, sex, or race.
In a case of first impression, Erin also represented a woman wrongfully identified as HIV-positive in a widely published advertisement, obtaining the first appellate-court decision in the country to hold that falsely labeling someone as HIV-positive constitutes defamation per se.
Erin’s employment practice also includes advising and counseling NYC entrepreneurs, artists, graphic designers, and other contract workers in the contracting process and representing them to resolve conflicts in those contract relationships, including in litigation under the NYC “Freelance Isn’t Free Act.”
Erin also represents business and institutional clients, advising them on employment and compliance issues, drafting and negotiating commercial and employment contracts, and on other transactional matters.
In addition to her law practice, Erin is currently training as a neutral to serve as a mediator or arbitrator to help parties reach out-of-court resolutions in employment, commercial, and other disputes. Erin has served as an adjunct professor at the City University of New York School of Law, teaching Professional Responsibility and Lawyering Seminar since 2017, and has mentored newly graduated law students through the New York State Bar Exam almost every summer since 2012.
You can follow Erin on Linkedin and email Erin here.
Mustapha Ndanusa
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“My educational history and legal career, even in private practice, are marked by dedication to public interest law, thus, I am excited to give back to a law school known for public service.”
Mustapha Ndanusa is a founding Partner of Davis Ndanusa Ikhlas & Saleem LLP. Mustapha is a litigation attorney with twenty years of State and Federal litigation experience. Mr. Ndanusa began his career with MFY Legal Services, a not-for-profit organization, where he enhanced his litigation and advocacy skills.
Always intent on being a trial attorney, Mr. Ndanusa left MFY after four years of housing law advocacy and began his own private practice.
As a solo practitioner, Mr. Ndanusa quickly began trial advocacy in criminal law, civil litigation as well as a Federal action involving police misconduct such as false arrest/false imprisonment and assault.
Among his many cases, Mr. Ndanusa has represented religious leaders, recovered winnings for persons wrongfully accused by the police, settled cases where the trial would have cost clients unnecessary expenses, represented a client in a religious discrimination case and briefly represented persons accused of charges of terrorism.
Mustapha Ndanusa received his Juris Doctorate from Yeshiva University’s Benjamin Cardozo School of Law. He will be teaching the Fall 2021 Lawyering Seminar.
Follow Mustapha on: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook
You can email Mustapha’s personal email here and his work email here.
Scott Paltrowitz
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I am so excited to join CUNY Law School, and I look forward to learning from, and building community with, so many amazing people.
Scott Paltrowitz is an abolitionist activist, organizer, and advocate for human rights and racial, economic, and social justice, as well as an adjunct professor at CUNY Law School and the Columbia School of Social Work.
For the past decade, Scott has been most focused on efforts challenging New York’s incarceration system and the racism and abuses endemic to that system and faced by people caged in prisons, jails, and detention.
Scott is a member of New York’s #HALTsolitary Campaign and the national Unlock the Box Campaign, as well as the People’s Campaign for Parole Justice and other related efforts. Scott has also been part of various forms of refugee, immigration, and human rights advocacy and activism.
You can follow Scott on Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn
You can email Scott here.
Michelle Rae Pinzon
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Michelle Rae Pinzon obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She then attended St. John’s University School of Law where she graduated cum laude and served as editor on the St. John’s Law Review.
While in law school, she worked at the law school’s writing center where she assisted 1L’s with legal writing. Upon graduation, Michelle worked at a corporate law firm before starting a federal clerkship for the Honorable Joanna Seybert in the Eastern District of New York.
Michelle currently serves as an Associate General Counsel at Northwell Health. She previously worked as in-house counsel at a healthcare technology start-up where she advised on legal matters and implemented the company’s first compliance program.
Prior to that, Michelle served as in-house counsel for a specialty pharmacy and private equity fund. In her spare time, she volunteers as an executive director for a nonprofit arts organization that promotes Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian art that merges dance, martial arts, music, and acrobatics into a graceful yet effective martial art. Michelle is honored to be teaching Lawyering Seminar again at CUNY School of Law.
You can follow Michelle on LinkedIn and email her here.
Seann Riley
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Seann Riley is the Director of Partnerships for Uptrust, a tech start-up focused on criminal justice reform through the use of technology to prevent technical violations leading to incarceration.
Prior to joining Uptrust, Seann was a public defender for 17 years. Immediately following law school, Seann was an E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he represented clients in D.C. Superior Court and supervised third year law students in the Criminal Justice Clinic. Seann then joined The Bronx Defenders where he was a staff attorney, Training Team Leader and for 8 years the Deputy Director.
After leaving The Bronx Defenders, Seann was the Director of The Center for Holistic Defense and provided technical assistance to public defender offices across the country interested in developing a more holistic model of client representation. Most recently, Seann was a senior staff attorney with the Legal Aid Society in New York County.
Seann is currently an adjunct professor at both CUNY and Columbia Law Schools. At CUNY Law School, Seann teaches Criminal Procedure I and II, Professional Responsibility, Evidence and Criminal Trial Practice. At Columbia Law School, Seann teaches Criminal Trial Practice and is a Public Defender Career Advisor. Seann has also been an adjunct professor/lecturer at law at Fordham Law School.
In 2013 Seann was awarded the Wasserstein Fellowship at Harvard Law School, which recognizes exemplary lawyers who have distinguished themselves in public interest work. Seann received his BA from Georgetown University, MSW from the University of Michigan, JD law from Tulane Law School and LLM in Trial Advocacy from the Georgetown Law Center.
You can follow Seann on Facebook or email him here.
Davida Silverman ’10
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“My goal is to empower my students to master both the theory and application of administrative law, so that they can create a more just, humane, and equitable government.”
Davida Silverman will be serving as an Adjunct Professor of Public Institutions in the Context of Health Care. Davida has more than a decade of public health policy and government relations management experience, with substantial expertise in Medicaid, Medicare, the Affordable Care Act, and drug pricing reform.
She currently works at Genentech where she leads federal policy initiatives to advance patient access to therapeutic oncology drugs, cancer screenings, and biomarker diagnostic tests. Prior to joining Genentech, she worked at Planned Parenthood Federation of America where she rose through the ranks to become Associate Director of Public Policy.
While at Planned Parenthood, Davida spearheaded innovative federal and state policy advocacy strategies to shield Planned Parenthood from political defunding efforts, and improve Medicaid and private insurance coverage of abortion and contraceptive services. Prior to working at Planned Parenthood, Davida was a staff attorney and reproductive justice legal fellow at the National Health Law Program.
Davida resides in San Francisco with her husband, daughter, and two cats. When she is not chasing after her preschooler, she spends her free time volunteering on two nonprofit boards, engaging in various pandemic coping hobbies, and geeking out about administrative law.
You can follow Davida on LinkedIn or email her here.
Mikila Thompson
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“A friend of mine asked if I would be interested in teaching 1L students. I remember the fear I felt entering law school and felt it was only right to encourage others through teaching a course that scared me, like Lawyering.”
Mikila Thompson is a Staff Attorney with The Legal Aid Society of New York City in the Juvenile Rights Practice. In her role, Ms. Thompson represents children in education matters throughout New York City. Previously, Mikila represented subject children in abuse and neglect cases throughout Brooklyn.
In addition to her role as Staff Attorney, she serves a member of the Adolescent Practice Team, and trains new attorneys on litigation and interview techniques.
Another enjoyable part of her role, Mikila trains colleagues in SOGIE (Sexual Orientation Gender Identification and Expression) Interview techniques in order to ensure we completely represent our youth clients. Outside of her professional work, Ms. Thompson is a volunteer crisis advocate for The Safe Center Long Island, serves as a mentor for rising professionals, and is on the board of directors of Strategic Opportunities Achieving Results (S.O.A.R.!).
Ms. Thompson earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Barnard College/Columbia University, and her Juris Doctorate from The Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University.
You can follow Mikila on LinkedIn and email her here.
Elizabeth Valentin ’01
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Elizabeth Valentin is a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at New York Law School, where she directs the Elder Law Clinic, and teaches Legal Practice and Wills, Trusts, & Future Interests.
Prior to entering academia, Professor Valentin was a partner at Littman Krooks LLP, where for 18 years her practice focused on elder law, special needs planning, and trusts and estates. In the last decade, her practice centered primarily on assisting clients preserve their right of self-determination in the face of disability and advanced age. She continues to work with a number of community groups on legal education and advocacy activities related to law and aging issues, believing access to this information is essential in supporting an individual’s autonomy in decision-making.
Professor Valentin co-authored “Elder Law, Special Needs Planning and Will Drafting,” the New York State Bar Association publication which is updated annually. She has been a frequent speaker at continuing legal education events, including several conferences sponsored by the New York County Lawyer’s Association, Private Wealth & Taxation Institute, and the Elder Law and Special Needs Planning Section of the New York State Bar Association. Professor Valentin has also taught at the CUNY School of Law as an Adjunct Professor and Supervising Attorney, co-teaching the Elder Law Clinic, and teaching Wills, Trusts, & Estates.
Professor Valentin is a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association Elder Law and Special Needs Planning Section and currently serves as the First District Delegate and Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee.
Professor Valentin earned her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and her J.D. from CUNY School of Law.
You can follow Professor Valentin on LinkedIn or email her here.
Shomari Ward
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“CUNY Law’s commitment to social justice schoalrship is second-to-none, so I look forward to engaging with students who embrace pedagogy rooted in lawyering for social change.”Shomari Ward worked for years at community-based organizations focusing on youth development before pursuing a career in law.
Shomari was a litigation attorney at a corporate law firm in New York City where he focused on a broad range of complex commercial litigation.
Shomari then joined the Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Division (JRD) in 2014 where he managed a litigation docket, which included child protective and juvenile defense proceedings.
Currently, he serves as a JRD staff attorney in their Special Litigation and Law Reform Unit representing children in systemic, class action litigation and legislative reform efforts. In addition to serving as an attorney in JRD, Shomari facilitates trainings on race, class, and community issues for practitioners, who work directly and collaterally with indigent families of color.
You can email Shomari here.
Karen Kithan Yau
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Karen dedicates her work to vindicating the rights of employees and workers and advises employers in promoting fairer and more productive workplaces. She works with tenants, students, and parents to confront discrimination and unfair treatment that they face.
She has over two decades of legal experience working with employees, workers, and immigrants, including over nine years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Labor Bureau at the New York State Attorney General, where she led investigations into labor violations in numerous industries, including the agricultural, greengrocer, moving, restaurant, and taxi industries. In addition, Karen has had varied law teaching and policy-related experiences.
She was a recipient of a Skadden Fellowship at the National Employment Law Project and a Robert M. Cover Teaching Fellowship at Yale Law School and held an assistant professorship at Syracuse University College of Law. Karen also worked in management and leadership positions in not-for-profit policy and advocacy organizations. Karen is active in bar associations and community organizations.
She is a director of the boards of the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY) and its not-for-profit affiliate, the Asian American Law Fund of New York (AALFNY). Karen co-chaired AABANY’s Pro Bono and Community Service Committee and spearheaded its Pro Bono Advice and Referral Clinic, a recipient of the New York State Bar Association’s 2019 Bar Leaders Innovation Award.
In addition to AABANY, Karen is also a member of the Federal Bar Association, the National Employment Law Association/New York Chapter, and the New York City Bar Association.
Karen has been honored by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) and the Chinese-American Planning Council – Brooklyn Community Services for her pro bono work and contributions to the Asian American Pacific Islander community. She frequently conducts training, speaks, and writes on employment matters, Asian America, crosscultural competencies, and immigrants’ rights.
Karen received her law degree from Northeastern University School of Law and graduated from Stony Brook University and Brooklyn Technical High School. She is admitted in New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Karen emigrated from Hong Kong and speaks fluent Cantonese Chinese. A proud daughter of garment workers who toiled long hours and the exasperated mother of two multi-racial children who excel in argument as an artform, Karen now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
You can follow Karen on: Twitter | LinkedIn
You can email Karen here.