Corene Kendrick, JD ’03, is a Staff Attorney at the Youth Law Center (YLC) in San Francisco, a nonprofit legal organization that advocates for the rights of children in foster care and juvenile justice systems across the country. She has worked on a variety of YLC’s reform projects and civil rights impact litigation on issues including the first federal case which found that juveniles have the same due process rights as adults in parole revocation proceedings; reducing the use of institutions and group homes for children in foster care; benefits for youth aging out of foster care; educational and mental health services for youth in juvenile justice and foster care; and basic conditions of care for children in foster care or the juvenile justice system. She also is an Adjunct Instructor in Children & the Law at Golden Gate University School of Law.

Before joining YLC in 2005, Corene was a Skadden Fellow and Staff Attorney at Children’s Rights in New York, and she worked on class action lawsuits to reform foster care systems in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Nebraska. As a law student, she clerked at the National Center for Youth Law and the Domestic Violence Unit of the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.

Prior to attending law school, Corene worked for several years in Washington, D.C. as a Congressional lobbyist for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. Corene received her J.D. in 2003 from Stanford Law School, also holds a Masters of Public Affairs from the University of Texas, and a B.A. from George Washington University.