Yael Cannon, JD
Yael Cannon is Faculty Director of the HJA Law Clinic, Legal Director for the HJA, and an Associate Professor of Law. Her passion for justice, racial equity, health, and well-being for vulnerable children and families is evidenced by her many years of poverty law practice and her dedication to integrating MLP into clinical legal education.
Her prior experience at the University of New Mexico School of Law’s Medical Legal Alliance, one of the nation’s leading academic MLPs, informs her work with law students and her integration of medical students into the HJA Law Clinic’s representation of low-income children and families in D.C.
She previously taught at the American University Washington College of Law in the Disability Rights Law Clinic and worked as a Senior Attorney at the Children’s Law Center in Washington, D.C.
She graduated with distinction from Stanford Law School and summa cum laude from the University of Maryland with B.A. degrees in History and African American Studies.