Protima Pandey is Chief Counsel at OYCR where her role is to support the Director on policy issues,  legislation, regulatory compliance, and procedures to improve the youth justice system through identifying  and disseminating best practices and developing data-driven policy recommendations. Prior to this role,  she was the Administrative Services Manager III, Chief Operating Officer, Custody Health Services, Santa  Clara County Health and Hospitals where she was responsible for operational, administrative, public  reporting, and personnel aspects at the agency in the executive management team with healthcare staff  across 4 facilities, approximately 400 persons, with an annual operating budget of $135 Million. Her public  administration career began as the Director for Office of Women’s Policy, Division of Equity and Social  Justice in Santa Clara County, California. As part of the County Executive, she led the work to bring a  gender lens to policy decision-making, building a pipeline to leadership, and creating equity in  governance. Prior to that, she was the Managing Attorney and Regional Counsel for Immigration at Bay  Area Legal Aid, beginning her career there as a staff attorney litigating on family law and immigration  cases for survivors of domestic violence, as well as allied legal relief in areas of public benefits, housing  preservation, and economic justice. In 2017 she won a precedent setting case in California, Kumar v.  Kumar, a complex immigration and family law cross-over case and is a qualified expert witness in immigration and family law cases. She also led the firm-wide post-graduate Fellowship program to recruit  and mentor future public interest lawyers. Appointed as one of 17 lawyers nation-wide as a Commissioner  to the American Bar Association Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, she is also a litigation skills faculty with the ABA. Additionally, she has served as faculty for Practicing Law Institute, trainer for local Bar Associations and local law schools including UC Hastings, UC Berkeley, and Stanford Law  School where she guest lecturers on invitation. Her public interest career began at Inland Counties Legal  Services in Southern California and she has also served as Public Policy specialist for California  Partnership to End Domestic Violence in Sacramento, California working on legislation and policy  advocacy on behalf of agencies serving survivors and their families.