About HLA

Lucy Ellis

Staff Attorney (she/her)

Lucy joins the Mental Health Advocacy Program for Kids as a Staff Attorney. Prior to joining HLA, Lucy was a Staff Attorney at the American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law, where she focused on education issues impacting youth in foster care and kinship caregiving. Lucy also has experience providing direct representation to children in Essex County in education and immigration cases. Prior to attending law school Lucy worked on housing and neighborhood issues at the Boston Foundation and spent a year working in a Boston based after school program. Lucy received her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in 2020 and her B.A. from Northeastern University in 2011.