PILC is excited to announce a new series for students looking for public interest career and academic advice, a morale boost, camaraderie, and fun:
Career Happy Hours for Injustice-Loathing Law Students or CHILLS.
Lauren Burke, an energetic and inspiring NYU Law ’09 alumna and Founder of Atlas: DIY, Developing Immigrant Youth, will be hosting CHILLS every Friday from 4-6pm. Each week CHILLS will offer wine and cheese and a chance to chat with Lauren and a rotating group of NYU Law graduates who are now public interest practitioners. To join the CHILLS event on Friday, please RSVP through CSM/Symplicity (search “Lauren Burke” on the Events tab).
More about Lauren:
Since graduating from NYU School of Law in 2009, Lauren has dedicated her career to empowering immigrants and children, focusing on survivors of trauma. Fluent in Mandarin, she received a Skadden Fellowship to work with Chinese teenage victims of labor trafficking, brought to the United States under severe debt bondage. In 2011 she was asked to develop and oversee the New York Asian Women’s Center in-house immigration law practice for survivors of human trafficking, sexual assault, and domestic violence and in 2012 she became an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School to teach the immigrant youth clinic. In 2011 Lauren partnered with three of her former clients to found Atlas: DIY, Developing Immigrant Youth — a incubator of community, education, and empowerment for undocumented immigrants in their allies and in July of 2013 they opened their doors full time. Lauren is a 2013 Forbes 30 under 30 recipient and 20 Millenniels on a mission, a Huffing Posts “new abolitionist”, New Leaders Council 40 Under 40, and NYU’s Distinguished Young Alumna of the Year. Lauren’s work has been featured in the New York Times and on NPR’s All Things Considered, she has written publications for law journals and foreign governments, and her work was the inspiration behind the documentary “Walking Merchandise.” Lauren is particularly thrilled to return “home” to NYU to counsel students on their public interest careers and ensure they find the job of their dreams using the law to change lives. Lauren considers herself a pop expert on career counseling and media relations and is the author of the PS JD blog “The Ten Biggest Mistakes You Can Make While Interviewing at Public Interest Law Career Fairs.”