NCLR’s Youth Policy Director, Shannan Wilber (she/her) joined the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) staff in 2013 after being connected to the organization as a donor, board member, and cooperating attorney since the early 1990s.
When she was a young lawyer, she explains, NCLR provided a model for the kind of attorney she wanted to be – “feminist, collaborative, fearless, creative, and unapologetically lesbian.” Wilber has a background in social work and worked at a domestic violence shelter before attending law school at Santa Clara University in California.
Though she knew little about lawyering at that time, she was drawn to areas of legal practice that centered around family law, criminal defense, education, and children’s