Karen Levit is an Attorney for the Child at the Legal Aid Society of New York. She has worked in the Juvenile Rights Practice at Legal Aid for seven years, representing youth in Queens Family Court abuse and neglect proceedings. She continues to represent those young people when they become respondent parents while still in care on a case-by-case basis. She presented on \"When Adolescents Become Parents\" at the 2018 National Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice & Family Law Conference. She is also on the Secondary Traumatic Stress Committee at Legal Aid, providing trainings on the subject to staff, interns, and law students. Karen is involved in the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, the union that represents Legal Aid lawyers, having previously served as an alternate Vice President for Queens and Manhattan and currently serving as a delegate for Queens. Karen holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She graduated with a B.A., magna cum laude, in English Literature and Jewish Studies from the City College of New York. In law school, she co-chaired the Feminist Working Group and arranged speaker events. She also interned at the Juvenile Law Center, researching issues including disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice system, emancipation laws by state, practice issues in representing juveniles with autism spectrum disorders, and education rights of juveniles in state custody or pre-adjudication proceedings in the juvenile justice system."}” data-sheets-userformat=”{"2":15233,"3":{"1":0},"10":0,"11":4,"12":0,"14":{"1":2,"2":0},"15":"Calibri","16":12}”>Karen Levit, Esq., Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Society Karen Levit is an Attorney for the Child at the Legal Aid Society of New York. She has worked in the Juvenile Rights Practice at Legal Aid for seven years, representing youth in Queens Family Court abuse and neglect proceedings. She continues to represent those young people when they become respondent parents while still in care on a case-by-case basis. She presented on “When Adolescents Become Parents” at the 2018 National Child Welfare, Juvenile Justice & Family Law Conference. She is also on the Secondary Traumatic Stress Committee at Legal Aid, providing trainings on the subject to staff, interns, and law students. Karen is involved in the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys, the union that represents Legal Aid lawyers, having previously served as an alternate Vice President for Queens and Manhattan and currently serving as a delegate for Queens. Karen holds a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She graduated with a B.A., magna cum laude, in English Literature and Jewish Studies from the City College of New York. In law school, she co-chaired the Feminist Working Group and arranged speaker events. She also interned at the Juvenile Law Center, researching issues including disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice system, emancipation laws by state, practice issues in representing juveniles with autism spectrum disorders, and education rights of juveniles in state custody or pre-adjudication proceedings in the juvenile justice system.