Prior to joining NCYL, Abrokwa was a Trial Attorney with the Disability Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division. Alice previously worked at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law as a Skadden Fellow, where her work focused on representing students with mental health disabilities attending D.C. public charter schools in special education matters. Abrokwa received her B.A. from Princeton University and joint J.D. and Master in Public Policy degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School. After law school, she clerked for Judge James R. Spencer on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and for Judge Roger L. Gregory on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.