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Podcast: You Are A Lawyer: Take Risks and Change Careers in Law
Episode: What Justice Looks Like When You Start With People feat. Bianca Van Heydoorn
Description: Bianca Van Heydoorn is the Executive Director of the Youth Sentencing and Reentry Project in Philadelphia. In this episode, Bianca shares how criminal sociology, reentry work, and lived experience shaped her leadership, and why meaningful justice work starts with proximity, dignity, and seeing young people as children first.Lawyer Side Hustles and Parallel WorkWhile Bianca is not a lawyer, her work runs parallel to legal advocacy. She leads an organization committed to holistic legal support, positive youth development, and adolescent brain science, while also building sustainable infrastructure so the...