Julianna Lee
Senior Staff Attorney: Legal Aid Society of DC
1999-2000 Fellow: office of
Senator Daniel K. Inouye.
Biography
Julianna has been a Senior Staff Attorney at the Legal Aid Society of DC since October 2007. Prior to joining Legal Aid, Julia was a law fellow with the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. There she worked on juvenile justice policy and legal advocacy issues, focusing primarily on mental health services for court-involved youth. Julia received her B.A. from Wellesley College, an M.A. in modern Korean and Japanese history from Harvard University, and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Julianna Lee has a long history of campus activism in college, community development work in Boston’s Chinatown, and Asian Pacific American advocacy in Washington D.C. Starting in college as an intern with the Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts, Julianna tutored English as a second language, was a counselor for the Chinatown Adventure and Chinatown Afterschool programs, and founded the Chinatown College Workshop Program. She also served as a mentor in the Korean American Alliance and co-founded the D.C. APA Film Festival in Washington, D.C. Julianna worked in the Battered Immigrant Women’s Project of the Greater Boston Legal Services in 2001, was a keynote speaker for Voices of Civil Rights, interned with NAPALC’s Anti-Asian Violence Division, and planned a conference for the Global Feminisms Project at the University of Michigan. She is also coauthor of Asian Americans under the Rehnquist Court: A Protracted and Ongoing Struggle for Justice and Recognition, published in Awakening From the Dream.
How has the APAICS fellowship experience affected you professionally? Has it helped at all in your career?
"It certainly has. I’ve always been interested in Asian American issues and civil rights, so when I was in DC it helped me get involved with a lot of the Asian American advocacy groups in town that I’ve kept in touch with since leaving DC and rejoined when I came back to DC. So it’s been just great."
What advice do you have for our incoming class of fellows?
"Just make the most of the experience as possible. There are so many opportunities here to meet people and go to various events. And it’s definitely worth taking advantage of those things and building as many relationships as you can."
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