Maya Lytje is a rising 2L at Harvard Law School. Lytje holds a BA in Public Policy and Linguistics as well as a Certificate in Human Rights from Duke University, where she was a QuestBridge scholar. There, she conducted a literature review and developed an Excel-based research tool on the Leave No One Behind principle of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, which she presented at the Distinguished Humphrey Fellowship Fulbright Exchange Program on Social Justice and Human Rights. Prior to law school, Lytje worked as a project analyst at the law firm Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo, PC, where she worked on health law, government relations, immigration, pro bono, and IP litigation. In law school, Lytje is involved in the Tenant Advocacy Project and the Harvard Human Rights Journal. Lytje will spend her summer at the Governor’s Office of Policy & Cabinet Affairs. Her mentors are Donna Patalano, inaugural director for the justice review unit of  the Massachusetts Attorney General and Rappaport Center board member, as well as Matt Segal, co-director of the ACLU state supreme court initiative.