2016 Stevens Fellows
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Chicago-Kent College of Law
Molly Kordas Illinois Attorney General's Office (Chicago, IL) Columbia Law School Elena Rodriguez American Civil Liberties Union - Racial Justice Project (New York, NY) Deborah Pei Le Tang Legal Aid Society - Exploitation Intervention Project (Brooklyn, NY) Emory University School of Law Amanda Helene Quiles Office of the Public Defender - Augusta Judicial Circuit, Adult Division (Augusta, GA) Morgan Bridgman U.S. Department of Justice, District of South Carolina (Greenville, SC) Fordham University School of Law Rebecca Laitman New Jersey Law and Education Empowerment Project ("NJ-LEEP") (Newark, NJ) Johnny Santacruz New York State Attorney General's Summer Law Internship Program (SLIP) - Medicaid Fraud Control Bureau (Manhattan, New York, NY) Harvard Law School Kerry Richards United States Department of Justice—Civil Rights Division Olivia Warren Federal Public Defender of the Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island (Boston, MA) Howard University School of Law Mackenzie Becker Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia (Washington, DC) Charee Rickia Page Office of the Georgia Capital Defender (Atlanta, GA) Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law Ross Berlin Office of the State Appellate Defender (Chicago, IL) Stephanie Ciupka Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender (Chicago, IL) Beth Holtzman American Civil Liberties Union (Washington DC) Jonathan Lee Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender (Chicago, IL) Santa Clara University School of Law Sabeena Ball-Dingra Alameda County Office of the Public Defender (Oakland, CA) Hannah Bertrando California Office of the Attorney General (Sacramento, CA) Shauna Lord Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Francisco Lozano Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Stanford Law School Sophia Antoinette Carrillo U.S. State Department, Office of the Legal Counselor, at the Hague (Washington, DC) Abbee Cox Orleans Public Defenders Office (New Orleans, LA) Kate Fetrow American Civil Liberties Union (New York City, NY) Daniel Nesbit Brennan Center, Democracy Program (New York City, NY) University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Melissa Adamson National Center for Youth (San Francisco, CA) Imogene Lily Mankin Bronx Public Defenders Office (Bronx, NY) Jenna Kingkade California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (Los Angeles, CA) Emma Mclean-Riggs 10th Circuit Court of Appeals (Denver, CO) University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law Ariana Cernius Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Senior Outreach Team (Los Angeles, CA) Maggie Yates Southern Center for Human Rights (Atlanta, GA) University of Chicago Law School Kaitlin Beck Women's Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union of New York (New York, NY) Erin Smith-Lanyon Civil Rights Team of Equip for Equality (Chicago, IL) University of Florida Levin College of Law Stewart Vargosa-Sosa Brittney Ladd University of Georgia School of Law Taryn Arbeiter The Door’s Legal Services Center (New York, NY ) Jennifer Cross Orleans Public Defenders Office (New Orleans, LA) University of Michigan Law School Hannah Friedman American Civil Liberties Union - Racial Justice Project Saeeda Joseph-Charles Federal Defender for the Western District of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA) University of Minnesota Law School Lindsay Lancette U.S. Attorney's Office (Minneapolis, MN) Travis Waller Connecticut Attorney General's Office, Consumer Protection Division (Hartford, CT) University of Oklahoma College of Law Wriley K. Anderson Oklahoma County Public Defender's Office (Oklahoma City, OK) Alexander B. Richard Oklahoma County Public Defender's Office (Oklahoma City, OK) University of Washington School Law Tadeu Velloso Travis Mann Yale Law School Rebecca Ojserkis ACLU National Prison Project (Washington, D.C.) Elizabeth Leiserson ACLU Immigrants Rights Project (San Francisco, CA) |
"My decision to pursue a legal career was driven purely by a passion for youth issues and a sincere desire to engage with the community through direct service and policy work. The focus of my professional work has always been on serving low-income and at-promise youth, and I am wholly committed to working in this field after graduating law school. My internship at Legal Services for Children reaffirmed this commitment, and allowed me to gain experience in new areas of children's law.
As an intern at Legal Services for Children, I worked in the areas of guardianship, education, dependency, and immigration. I was given cases that had complicating factors, and as a result also gained specialized experience and knowledge of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and the McKinney Vento Act. I performed home visits with clients, represented clients in court, and negotiated with school districts and opposing counsel. I was also able to attend public interest trainings, which included working with LGBTQ youth, trauma-informed child interviewing, immigration policy, and cultural humility." Melissa Adamson National Center for Youth - Public Interest Fellow (San Francisco, CA) JD Candidate (2017) University of California, Berkeley, School of Law |
