Legal Director of Youth Justice Program

The Legal Aid Justice Center seeks a strategic, collaborative legal advocate to lead a creative and passionate team of attorneys and organizers as Legal Director, Youth Justice Program. Reporting to the Co-Deputy Director of Advocacy, the Legal Director provides strategic vision for and guidance over YJP’s advocacy campaigns.  These multi-faceted campaigns focus primarily on education and juvenile justice issues, including the following: 

• Statewide education rights policy (e.g., special education, resource equity, education access, and school-to-prison pipeline)
• Statewide juvenile justice policy (e.g., decarceration, restorative/transformative justice, and education/mental health conditions within juvenile justice facilities) 

The Youth Justice Program also serves as the convenor of the Fund Our Schools coalition and statewide Education Law Taskforce.