Lynne Echenberg has been working in the child welfare and juvenile justice fields for over a decade. Following law school, Lynne received a Skadden Fellowship to work at the Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Division (JRD), in New York, representing young people being discharged from foster care in the Bronx Family Court. She then worked as an attorney in the Children’s Aid Society’s (CAS) Office of Public Policy and Client Advocacy where she advocated on behalf of children and youth involved in CAS programs and developed the proposal that launched the Next Generation Center. Lynne is currently the Director of the Next Generation Center, a multiservice center for disconnected youth in the South Bronx. Lynne serves on the Advisory Boards of Represent!, a publication written by and for foster youth, and the Resilience Advocacy Project.

Previously, at the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), Lynne served as Special Assistant to Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta and then developed and piloted a mentoring program for young people aging out of foster care in the ACS’ Office of Youth Development. At Stanford, Lynne interned at Legal Services for Children and the Haywood Burns Institute for Juvenile Justice Fairness & Equity at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, as well as the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the JRD. She taught a course on children and the law at Stanford University, and represented children in special education and school discipline proceedings at the East Palo Alto Community Law Project.