Newly-Appointed YLS Board Officers for 2023-24

Terms Begin June 1

at Lewis Brisbois. She joined the YLS Board in 2022, and presently serves as board liaison to the YLS Service to the Public Committee.

A.C.’s involvement with the YLS began with her participation on the CLE Committee in 2018. She later joined the YLS Membership Committee, and served as the committee’s co-chair for the 202122 program year. Outside of the MBA, A.C. is a Vice Chair for the Oregon Association of Defense Counsel’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Affinity Group.

YLS President is Maxine Tuan Maxine is a family law attorney and Executive Director of St. Andrew Legal Clinic, which provides family law legal services to lowincome families. Prior to joining St. Andrew Legal Clinic, Maxine was a partner at Wyse Kadish LLP. Maxine joined the board in 2020 and is currently YLS Board Treasurer. Previously, she served as board liaison to the MBA Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee and YLS Membership Committee.

previous board assignments include liaising with the MBA Public Service Committee and YLS CLE Committee.

Amelia first became active within the YLS when she joined the YLS Service to the Public Committee in 2016. She later chaired the committee before joining the board in 2020. She was also part of the YLS Social Justice Taskforce.

Additionally, because of PCC CLEAR’s affiliation with Portland Community College, PCC CLEAR can provide beneficial community and educational connections for the individuals it serves.

Steve assists with PCC CLEAR’s expungement clinic, and he describes it as an ongoing story of individuals who may have made an unfortunate mistake and ended up with a criminal conviction, often early in adulthood. He notes that many of them find a way to turn things around, but unfortunately, those convictions remain on their record, prohibiting or limiting them from doing various activities that many of us take for granted, such as getting a job, hunting, and volunteering at their kids’ schools. Steve describes the joy of helping someone, who’s turned their life around, work through the process of regaining the ability to do some of those common activities. Ultimately, Steve has learned a critical lesson from his work with PCC CLEAR: good people can make bad mistakes, but “we can support them in overcoming those mistakes and move on with their lives.”

PCC CLEAR’s expungement clinic runs every Friday from 12-4 p.m. Additionally, on Friday, April 7, the YLS Pro Bono Committee is partnering with PCC CLEAR for one of its Friday expungement clinics. There will be training from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m., the clinic will run during its normal hours, and the committee will host a social after the clinic from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the nearby Florida Room.

Maxine’s YLS involvement began as a member of the YLS CLE Committee in 2016. She served as the committee chair from 2019-20. Maxine is a former president of the Oregon Asian Pacific American Bar Association, and serves as a 1L Mentor with Lewis & Clark Law School.

YLS President-Elect is Amelia Andersen. Amelia practices disability law at the Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization, where she manages the Disability Legal Services program. She currently serves as YLS Board Secretary. Her

YLS Secretary is A C EstacioHeilich. A.C. is a member of the labor and employment group