Lynn Wu graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania. She went on to teach at Elmhurst Middle School in the Oakland Unified School District, incorporating social justice and youth empowerment throughout her teaching instruction. While teaching, Lynn earned her M.A.T. from the Center for Teaching Excellence and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco. There, she researched the correlation between youth involvement in school policy making and academic success.
Currently, Lynn is a joint law and public policy student at the University of California, Berkeley. She continues to work with the Oakland Unified School District mentoring her former students, coaching new teachers, and conducting legal research and policy analysis to explore innovative district reform initiatives.
She was the Co-Director of Advocates for Youth Justice at Berkeley Law and formerly co-ran the Educational Advocacy Clinic, where she trained graduate students who were then appointed the education rights of foster youth by the Alameda County juvenile court. She has taught at Juvenile Hall and has been an educational surrogate for foster children. Her main research and career interests lie in achieving education reform through multidisciplinary collaboration with a particular focus on meeting the educational needs of foster youth.