Lily graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center. As a clinical student with Georgetown’s Juvenile Justice Clinic, Lily represented court-involved youth in D.C. family court and helped litigate cases under the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act to get release for adults who had been given life sentences as youth. During law school, Lily interned with several civil rights, gender justice, and anti-poverty organizations, including Lawyers for Children, the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, the National Partnership for Women & Families, Bread for the City, and Equal Justice Under Law.

As a law student, Lily was the Senior President of Georgetown’s chapter of If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice and served on the steering committees and executive boards of Georgetown Law Students for Justice in Palestine, the National Lawyers Guild, and Georgetown Youth Advocates. She also served as a teaching assistant for a restorative justice course, and as a research assistant for projects on indigenous land dispossession, family separation, and critical race theory. 

Prior to joining Equal Justice Under Law, Lily was a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow and a Housing Not Handcuffs Attorney at the National Homelessness Law Center, where she worked with litigators, legislators, and advocates to end the criminalization of homelessness. Lily is an adjunct professor of Reproductive Rights and Justice at the University of Baltimore Law School, and is passionate about oxford commas, New Orleans, reality television, prison and police abolition, and DC statehood.

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