Duci Goncalves
Duci Goncalves (CGS’00, SAR’02) of Dorchester, Mass., earned a JD from Northeastern University School of Law, and is now the attorney in charge at the Quincy office of the Committee for Public Counsel Services’ Youth Advisory Division (YAD). Duci began working at the YAD Roxbury office in 2005, where she represented juveniles in delinquency and youthful offender matters in the Dorchester, West Roxbury, and Boston juvenile courts. From 2010 to 2011, while on a leave of absence from YAD, she worked as a staff attorney at Suffolk University School of Law’s Juvenile Justice Center (JJC), where she supervised law students representing juveniles in the Boston Juvenile Court, assisted in teaching the Juvenile Defender Clinical Class, and maintained a small caseload of juvenile delinquency and youthful offender cases. Duci received the Massachusetts Bar Association’s 2012 Access to Justice Defender Award.
From the Winter-Spring 2016 issue.