Jean Strout

Jean Strout is a Senior Attorney at the National Center for Youth Law and focuses on litigation to enforce the rights of children and youth in the foster care system. She works with internal and external partners to ensure that youth are kept with their families and communities whenever possible, and that youth who have been removed from their homes are safe and get the supportive services they need.

Jean has almost a decade of experience working on behalf of children in the foster care system, including as an Equal Justice Works Fellow and guardian ad litem at Support Center for Child Advocates and a Zubrow Fellow at Juvenile Law Center. Jean clerked for the Honorable Judge Carmen C. Cerezo of the District of Puerto Rico and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Jean is an East Coast transplant from Maine now living in the Bay Area, and she does not miss the winter. She loves to volunteer with the local animal shelter, sing in her barbershop choir, and scuba dive.