Monica Youn

Monica Youn is the inaugural Brennan Center Constitutional Fellow at NYU School of Law, where she focuses on election law and First Amendment issues. She was previously in private practice, and also served as law clerk to Judge John T. Noonan, Jr. in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Ms. Youn received her J.D. from Yale Law School, her M. Phil from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar and her B.A. from Princeton University. She is the editor of Money, Politics, and the Constitution: Beyond Citizens United, a book of essays by leading constitutional scholars, and she has testified before Congress and published law review articles on election law issues. Her political commentary has been published in Roll Call, Slate, and The L.A. Times, among other publications, and she has appeared on MSNBC's Hardball, PBS NewsHour, Democracy Now! and Bill Moyers Journal. Her work at the Brennan Center has been recognized by the New Leaders Council, which named her one of their "40 Under 40" nationwide leaders for 2010 and awarded her the Dipaola Foundation Democracy Rejuvenation Award.