
The Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs would like to offer a warm welcome to Betsy Gwin, a new Attorney and DAV Charitable Service Trust Fellow with the Veterans Law Clinic. Previously, Ms. Gwin was a Staff Attorney in the Child and Family Law Division of the Committee for Public Counsel Services. Ms. Gwin received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2011. While in law school, Ms. Gwin was Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy and worked as a research assistant in the Federal Legislation and Administrative Law Clinic. Ms. Gwin completed internships during law school at the Legal Aid Society of D.C., the Poverty and Race Research Action Coalition, and the American Bar Association’s Center on Children and the Law. Prior to law school, Ms. Gwin served as an AmeriCorps Paralegal at Cambridge and Somerville Legal Services, where her work focused primarily on disability benefits advocacy. Ms. Gwin previously volunteered as a grant-writer to raise funds for children of fallen soldiers in Massachusetts and assisted patients at a veterans’ treatment program in Syracuse, NY. She graduated in 2006 with a B.A. in Anthropology summa cum laude from Syracuse University, where she completed her Honors Thesis on veteran culture.