Toolkit Subcommittee
Wendy Silva serves as an Associate Court Attorney assisting families in navigating trust and estate matters filed in the Surrogate’s Court. She previously worked as a Senior Staff Attorney at a legal services organization serving low-income women where she trained and mentored attorneys in the private sector to provide pro bono representation. She directly represented clients in their family, matrimonial and immigration matters throughout New York City and supervised the first Domestic Violence Legal Project in Northern Manhattan. She has worked on a wide range of legal issues that challenge the disruption of clients’ legal right to appropriate education, housing, public benefits and medical care. She volunteers as a Community Mediator and Arbitrator and is a facilitator of Parent Education classes in both English and Spanish. Since 2010, her mindfulness practice exploring various aspects of meditation has served as a welcomed journey of self-exploration and integration into how she practices law. She looks forward to continuing to find new ways to integrate mindfulness practices into legal settings and sharing these benefits with her colleagues.
Nandar Win Kerr, Chair of the Events Subcommittee, has an LL.M. in International Law and Justice from Fordham Law School, a B.A in Public Affairs from SUNY- Empire State College, and an LL.B. from Yangon University, Myanmar, in 2006, where she was later licensed as an attorney. She was a recipient of Fordham’s Archibald R. Murray Public Service Award for her dedication and achievements in pro bono and public interest work. She has worked with the National Association of Immigration Judges and Judge Mimi Tsankov, the New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) Pro Se Litigants Clinic, the Fordham Courtroom Advocates Project in Brooklyn Family Court; and the Consumer Law Advocates' Civil Legal Advice and Resource Office, representing programs to assist consumers sued by creditors in NYC, and the NYLAG LegalHealth Unit, assisting veterans. She has also volunteered for the City Bar's Office for Diversity and Inclusion program, Thurgood Marshall Professional Development Series.
Tsui Yee is the Principal Attorney at Law Offices of Tsui H. Yee P.C., where she practices immigration law representing clients in a variety of immigration matters, including family- and employment-based applications for permanent residence, nonimmigrant work visas, defense in removal (deportation) proceedings, naturalization applications, and applications for various waivers of removability. Tsui has presented and spoken at numerous continuing legal education seminars regarding various aspects of immigration and nationality law and law firm practice management. Tsui enjoys a variety of spiritual and mindfulness practices, including meditation, yoga, breathwork, and gardening.
Special thanks to Brittney Edwards and Gleny Pena who also helped put the toolkit together.
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