Juliana Chang

A Better Balance | New York, NY

Juliana Chang is a Taiwanese-American poet and first-year law student at Harvard Law School. Both her art and her legal work seek to address the devaluation of caretaking and care work in social and legal contexts. Juliana hopes to build a career at the intersection of labor and employment law and gender justice, fighting to improve working conditions for domestic workers, prevent pregnancy and caregiver discrimination in the workplace, and facilitate more legal protections for informal, unpaid caregiving.

To that end, she will spend this coming summer as a legal intern for work-family nonprofit A Better Balance, where she will provide direct legal services to workers nationwide via ABB’s free helpline, conduct research on workplace accommodations for pregnant workers, assist with employment discrimination litigation, and contribute to policy efforts to expand legal recognition of diverse family structures.

At HLS, Juliana is a research assistant for Professor William Rubenstein, an articles editor for the Journal of Law and Gender, a Resident Tutor at Quincy House, and a member of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. Next fall, she will also be a clinical student with the Employment Law Clinic and a contributing writer for the Labor & Employment Lab.

She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Linguistics and a MA in Sociology. Her debut poetry chapbook, INHERITANCE, was the winner of the 2020 Vella Chapbook Contest and published with Paper Nautilus Press in 2021.