Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Washington, D.C.
Dee will be joining the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights as a Seaman-Plancher Fellow to advocate for workers’ rights on behalf of formerly incarcerated individuals and immigrant workers. Her focus areas will include challenging unlawful background check policies, wage theft, and other discriminatory and exploitative workplace practices.
At Harvard Law School, Dee was a student attorney at Harvard Defenders, where she represented indigent clients in criminal show-cause hearings. At the Crimmigration clinic and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, she worked on asylum applications and wrote an appellate brief on behalf of an undocumented client facing deportation proceedings. Through the Community Enterprise Project at the Transactional Law Clinic, Dee assisted local non-profit and low-income entrepreneur clients with forming entities and employment contracts. She was also involved in the Harvard Mediation Project, the Women’s Law Association, and the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. Prior to law school, Dee spent four years at 1951 Coffee Company, where she managed a job training and placement program for refugees and asylum seekers in Oakland, San Diego, and Seattle. She graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Policy, Planning, and Development from the University of Southern California.