Lily Austin ’20 is a Law & Public Policy Scholar and a Beasley Scholar at Temple University Beasley School of Law. Lily is a City Year Los Angeles alumna and a graduate of Swarthmore College, where she studied Education and Latin American Studies. After college, Lily worked for several years at a civil legal services organization in North Carolina, where she led regular outreach to migrant farmworkers and assisted with employment and immigration cases. During her first year in North Carolina, Lily was also in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps.
During her 1L summer, Lily worked at Philadelphia Legal Assistance, where she represented clients at administrative hearings for unemployment benefits. While at Temple, Lily has also engaged in extensive clinical work to support an organization that is seeking to improve legal protections and labor standards for domestic workers in Philadelphia.
As a Law & Public Policy Scholar in Washington D.C., Lily is working at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of General Counsel, Fair Housing Compliance Division. Lily’s policy interests are in workers’ rights, affordable housing and economic development, and models of policymaking and legal enforcement that include workers and communities.