Jennifer Kim

Jennifer is the 2026-2028 Sol and Helen Zubrow Fellow at Juvenile Law Center. She works with directly impacted individuals to challenge civil rights violations in the juvenile and criminal legal systems. Prior to joining Juvenile Law Center, Jennifer helped develop a lawsuit alleging the excessive and disproportionate sentencing of youth and the denial of a constitutionally mandated meaningful opportunity for release. She has worked on litigation challenging inhumane conditions of confinement in jails and prisons, including overuse of solitary confinement, excessive force, sexual abuse, gender and disability-based discrimination, denial of essential medical care, and dangerous environmental conditions.

Jennifer graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, where she received the Betty H. Thieme Public Interest Fellowship for her commitment to public service. During law school, Jennifer interned with the Law Offices of Deborah A. LaBelle, the ACLU National Prison Project, the MacArthur Justice Center, the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, and the ACLU of Pennsylvania. She directly represented clients through Michigan Law’s Civil Rights Litigation Initiative and Juvenile Justice Clinic. Jennifer also served as the Executive Articles Editor of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law and volunteered with the Sentence Commutation Project.

Between college and law school, Jennifer was a paralegal at a national plaintiffs’ class action law firm and a gun violence prevention nonprofit. She is the co-author of “America’s Gun Violence Epidemic: A Colossal, but Correctable, System Failure” published in the NYU Annual Survey of American Law.

Jennifer graduated from Brown University with a degree in International Relations and studied abroad in Havana, Cuba. She developed a passion for working with youth when she mentored recently resettled refugee students in Providence through the Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment program.