Sign up for a one-on-one appointment with Wasserstein Fellow Lena Silver

Appointments are still available with Wasserstein Fellow Lena Silver ’13, who will be on campus October 22-24.

Lena Silver is dedicated to combating poverty by elevating the voices of diverse, low-income communities through both direct services and systemic advocacy shaped by the lived experiences of her clients. Lena is currently the Director of Policy and Administrative Advocacy at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County (NLSLA), where she has worked since 2015. In this role, Lena oversees NLSLA’s public benefits and workers’ rights teams and supports policy and administrative advocacy initiatives across the organization.  Before joining NLSLA, Lena completed a fellowship at the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law in Chicago and clerked for a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. She earned her B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2008 and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2013, where she was a proud member of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau.

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