June Yang

June Yang joined the Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC) in February 2021. As Associate Director of Development, June brings more than 15 years of experience in grantwriting, fundraising, and nonprofit resource development. She began her development career as Grant Writer for the Queens Museum of Art in New York and has worked with a wide range of advocacy organizations and arts nonprofits with social impact. Most recently, June served as Director of Development for the Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital and Grants Officer for Public Justice. She also serves as a volunteer grant reviewer for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Arts Forward Fund.

In addition to working in development, June teaches dance fitness and writes fiction and freelance journalism. She is a past recipient of the Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction (Grand Prize). June holds a B.A. in Semiotics from Brown University and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Houston.