“Cancer won’t stop me,” she said. “I refuse to give it that credit.”
Even though her pro bono cases can be stressful, “because sometimes there’s no good outcome, no matter how hard you try”, the emotional toll does not hold back the lawyer who was called to the Bar in 1987.
“I’ll lose sleep over it,” she shared. “My family knows, and they’ll be my comforters, and they’ll remind me, ‘Hey, you know there’s only so much you can do.’”
Ultimately, she feels a “huge sense of responsibility” for each case she takes on, she said. “Because (with) every case, there’s someone’s life story in there. It’s not just four numbers on a file.”
Watch Peggy Yee’s story here. The series, Extraordinary People, pays homage to a successful, iconic documentary series of the same name, produced in the 1990s by predecessors of CNA’s current affairs department.
