About me
Sylvia K. Novinsky (she/her) is the Pro Bono Resource Center’s director which is a program of the North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission. 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 founded and advised the UNC Law Pro Bono Program., 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.
