About me
Sylvia K. Novinsky
Director, NC Pro Bono Resource Center
Equal Access to Justice Commission
Bio:
Sylvia K. Novinsky is the director of the NC Pro Bono Resource Center, a program of theNorth Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission. She has been in this role since 2016 when the Pro Bono Resource Center was created.
The Pro Bono Resource Center is tasked with increasing pro bono participation statewide.
Sylvia comes to this role after nearly twenty years of service to the University of North Carolina School of Law, where she held the role of Assistant Dean for Public Service Programs. During her tenure at Carolina Law, Sylvia founded and advised the UNC Law Pro Bono Program, a national model for inspiring students and alumni to participate in pro bono service. Sylvia also spends time inside the classroom as an adjunct professor, teaching “Spanish for American Lawyers”.
In addition to her career in higher education, Sylvia has experience working for legal aid providers. After law school, Sylvia litigated federal employment-related issues and administrative unemployment, wage and hour claims, and consumer cases, for Peninsula Legal Aid in Virginia. She then served as Legal Director for the Center for Immigrants’ Rights in New York, New York where she supervised a statewide hotline for immigrants and advocates and represented domestic workers on employment matters.
Sylvia grew up in Queens, NY, and her family is from Argentina. She is a graduate of Cornell University’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations and The American University’s Washington College of Law. She is licensed to practice law in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and New Jersey.
