Admitted to the Bar in New York State

I've been incredibly lucky to have experienced a life and career beyond my wildest dreams. I've founded organizations, pushed equity based program design, been rejected from (and then received!) prestigious fellowships and have raised more than 2.5 million dollars in funding. I've traveled China as a human rights researcher and driven around the United States offering free legal services to immigrants.  

Lately, however, I've realized my passion lies behind the scenes, supporting organizations and individuals in changing the world. I've done Executive Director leadership coaching, program design and fundraising development. I've advised founders and funders, colleges and corporations; my clients include Echoing Green, Claremont McKenna College, Brooklyn Law School, and the Louisiana Center for Children's Rights. Find specific examples here. 

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I truly believe we all have something to offer to make the world better, we just have to push ourselves to reach further, think broader, and be bolder.  Changing the world is a group project. Let's do this.

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Select Honors and Awards

• Forbes Thirty Under Thirty: Law and Policy

• New York University Distinguished Young Alumnae Award

• Connecticut College Mach Arom ’98 Alumni Award

• New York Law Journal Rising Star 

• Forbes Twenty Millennials on a Mission

• New Leaders Council: Forty Under Forty

• Manhattan Young Democrats Young Gets It Done Award

Select Press

• “Out Of The Shadows: Forbes 30 Under 30 Lauren Burke is on a Six-Month Van Trip Across the Country to Provide Legal On-Demand Services to Immigrants”

• “Beyond Silence”, Executive Produced by Demi Lovato,

• “This Woman Crushed Her Goals, And Then She Put Herself Out of Business”

• “No Les Digas A Nadie: Don’t Tell Anyone”

• “A Dedicated Server”

• “Walking Merchandise: Child Trafficking and the Snakehead Trade”

Select Panels and Publications

• Community Lawyering Through a Youth-Led Immigrant Cooperative, Moderator and Curator, Harvard Law School. 

• Living Well: Breaking the Stigma and Silence of Living With a Mental Health Diagnosis, Multiple Panels. 

• In The Fact of Rejection: A Fellow's Perspective, Echoing Green. 

• Disrupting the Status Quo: Creating a Youth Empowerment Model for Undocumented  Immigrant Youth, Guest Lecturer, Westfield State University.

• Empowering Trafficked Youth, Tedx Speaker, Columbia Teacher’s College.

• The Ten Biggest Mistakes You Can Make While Interviewing At A Career Fair, Author, PS JD. 

• DACA-Lamented? Spared Deportation, Immigrant Students Still Face Higher Ed Barriers, Author,The  New England Journal of Higher Education. 

• The Latino Child and the Law: Keynote Panel, Moderator and Curator, NYU School of Law. 

• It Was(n’t) My Choice: Identifying Human Trafficking in the Chinese Youth Populations, Author, VERA Institute for Social Justice. 

• I Will Fight to My Last Breath": Barriers to AIDS Treatment for Children in China, Lead Researcher, Asia Catalyst