Lauren Fine

Advisory Board

pronouns: she/her

Lauren Fine, Esq., is the co-founder and past co-director of the Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project (YSRP), where she led the mitigation/sentencing advocacy team for youth and juvenile lifers and did policy advocacy work during the organization’s first eight years. Prior to founding YSRP, Lauren was a Zubrow Fellow in Children’s Law at Juvenile Law Center, a federal law clerk, and a research assistant/project manager at the Brookings Institution. At Juvenile Law Center, among other projects, she advanced efforts to end the practice of sentencing children to life in prison without parole, including co-authoring Amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and state supreme courts. Lauren is a 2014 Echoing Green Fellow, a 2015 American Express-Ashoka Emerging Innovator, a 2016 Claneil Emerging Leader Fellow, and a 2016 American Bar Association Lawyer on the Rise. She is also a published author, including op-eds in the Philadelphia Inquirer and articles in The Champion, For the Defense, and The Legal Intelligencer.  Lauren is the past Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section, a member of the Duke Philadelphia regional alumni board, and a member of the Duke Law Alumni Association Board of Directors. She is a graduate of Yale University and Duke University School of Law.