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Mary Kelly Persyn

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Mary Kelly Persyn serves as vice president of legal affairs for Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco and principal attorney of Persyn Law & Policy. After beginning her career as a college teacher of English literature, she graduated from Columbia Law School and practiced government enforcement, criminal defense, and appellate law. She now focuses on in-house legal practice and pro bono appellate advocacy, vigorously fighting for support, opportunity, and access for REM youth and for dismantling white supremacy in favor of abundant, joyful, multiracial democracy that serves us all.