2015 Stevens Fellows
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Columbia Law School
Linda Moon US Department of Justice - Office of the Solicitor General Jessica Alcantara American Civil Liberties Union - Racial Justice Project Emory University School of Law Kaitlyn Barnes DeKalb County Law Office of the Public Defender (Decatur, GA) Amelia Todd Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Office of Enforcement Operations Fordham University School of Law Denise Barry Legal Aid Society, Queens Criminal Practice (Ms.) Sahar Moazami South Brooklyn Legal Services, HIV/AIDS Unit Harvard Law School Faye Maison Mecklenburg County Public Defender's Office (Charlotte, North Carolina) Elizabeth Knox Disability Rights Advocates (Berkeley, CA) Howard University School of Law Dominque Williams Boston Office of Fair Housing & Equity Dana Smith Public Counsel, Los Angeles CA Illinois Institute of Techology Chicago-Kent College of Law Lydia Ness Cabrini Green Legal Aid., Chicago, IL 60642 Ana Montelongo Office of the Illinois State Appellate Defender Northwestern University School of Law Benjamin Copulsky Office of the State Appellate Defender (Chicago, IL) Brian Cox Office of the State Appellate Defender (Chicago, IL) Melody Dernocoeur Gideon’s Promise (Charleston, WV) Amanda Koons Louisiana Capital Assistance Center (New Orleans, LA) Santa Clara University School of Law Paria Amini Bay Area Legal Aid (San Jose, CA) Nnennaya Amuchie Lawyers’ Committee For Civil Rights (San Francisco, CA) Daniel Buffington United States District Court for Northern District Court of California, Pro Se Department. (Oakland, CA) Samantha Fuchs Contra Costa County Office of the Public Defender (Martinez, CA) Stanford Law School Cindy Garcia Community Legal Services (East Palo Alto) Amari Hammonds New York City Law Dept Elizabeth Jones Southern Environmental Law Center (North Carolina) Communities for Better Environment (Huntington Park, CA) Malia McPherson San Francisco City Attorney's office University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Madeline Bailey Brooklyn Defender Services, Special Litigation Unit Alexander Kaplan East Bay Community Law Center and Represent.Us Brittany Tyler Family Violence Appellate Project (Oakland, CA) Lilian Fabela Children's Law Center (Washington DC) University of California, Davis, School of Law (King Hall) Laura Flynn Natural Resources Defense Council (San Francisco, CA) Hope Kwiatkowski Accountability Counsel (San Francisco, CA) University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law Stephanie Champion Texas Civil Rights Project in Austin, Texas Andres Dae Keun Kwon ACLU of Southern California – National Security and Immigrant Rights Project University of Chicago Law School Mica Moore American Civil Liberties Union of the Nation’s Capital Andrew Sullivan ACLU of Michigan University of Florida Levin College of Law Marison Silva Make the Road NY (Brooklyn, NY) Elizabeth White Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem University of Michigan Law School Maya Efrati Center for American Progress in DC Jessica Shaffer Suffolk County District Attorney in Boston University of Minnesota Law School Rudolph (Rudy) Dambeck Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Minneapolis, Minnesota Joseph Mahoney Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Chicago, IL University of Oklahoma College of Law Vilard Mullaliu Constitutional Court of Kosovo Lenora Muhm Oklahoma County Public Defender – Capital Trial Division University of Washington Law School Claire Sullivan Gideon’s Promise, Knoxville Public Defender Community Legal Office Alexa Polaski Disability Rights Washington Yale Law School Misha Guttentag Office of Commissioner Mignon Clyburn, Federal Communications Commission Victoria Raquel Pasculli Federal Defenders of New York, Southern District, 52 |
"It was a wonderful honor to receive a Justice John Paul Stevens Fellowship. With fellowship funding I was able to work at two different organizations that are taking on some of the most important environmental justice issues in the country. At the Southern Environmental Law Center I assisted with an ongoing legal effort to protect North Carolina's drinking water from coal ash pollution in the face of powerful business interests and agencies that have been reluctant to enforce federal and state environmental laws. At Communities for a Better Environment I helped in efforts to curb the urban oil field pollution that has disproportionately impacted low income communities of color.
This summer has been incredible. I was able to work on the issues that I am most passionate about, to work alongside inspiring lawyers, and to meet a number of community members organizing to clean up environmental hazards and call for a more just energy future. These experiences will help sustain me when I graduate and begin my career as a public interest lawyer." Liz Jones Southern Environmental Law Center (North Carolina) Communities for Better Environment (Huntington Park, CA) JD/MS Candidate 2016 Stanford Law School (Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment & Resources) "During the spring semester of my second year in law school, I was presented with a unique opportunity to intern at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo. I was initially hesitant to accept the internship because of the substantial costs associated with an international internship, but Professor Joseph Thai and the John Paul Stevens Fellowship proved indispensable in my pursuit of this opportunity as it significantly alleviated some of the financial burdens. As part of my internship at the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Kosovo, I had to become familiar with the admissibility criteria of referrals (petitions) established by the Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (“ECHR”). At the Court, I worked closely under the guidance of the Legal Unit in filtering, researching, and drafting preliminary reports on admissibility and opinions on actual cases for the Constitutional Court. Overall, the internship at the Constitutional Court was an extremely rewarding and worthwhile experience. Without the invaluable assistance of John Paul Stevens Foundation, I would have unfortunately missed out on this enriching, meaningful experience." Vilard Mullaliu Constitutional Court of Kosovo The University of Oklahoma College of Law JD Candidate 2016 |
