Milan received her JD from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in May 1999. She was admitted to the Maryland State Bar in September 1999 and to the North Carolina State Bar in March 2001. Milan is a Fellow of the Academy of Adoption & Assisted Reproduction Attorneys. She has been selected to the Best Lawyers in America Family Law Section since 2024. Milan worked for Americans for a Fair Chance, a consortium of six national legal civil rights agencies, in developing the southern strategy to preserve affirmative action. Milan was the Director of the Orange County Human Rights and Relations Department where she focused on housing and employment discrimination related matters. In 2007 she became the founding Director of North Carolina Lawyers for Entrepreneurs Assistance Program (NC LEAP) of the North Carolina Bar Association Foundation. Under Milan’s direction, NC LEAP became a statewide program providing free legal services to low-wealth entrepreneurs across the life cycle of their businesses. Milan serves on the National Family Law Advisory Council of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights. She is an Adoption and Assisted Reproductive Technology Fellow with the Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction. A Fellow of the 2008-2010 Friday Fellowship class of the Wildacres Leadership Initiative, she is the immediate past chair of Equality NC and currently serves as chair of Equality NC Foundation, NC’s only statewide LGBTQ+ advocacy organization. In 2026 Milan was named one of North Carolina’s 50 Most Influential Women by NC Lawyers Weekly. She currently serves as a Board member for the following community organizations: The Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice and Carolina Jews for Justice. As part of service to her profession, Milan serves on the Adoption Committee, the Modern Family Committee, and the newly founded Committee on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity of the NC Bar Association. Milan speaks English, Vietnamese, and Spanish.