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2016 Stevens Fellows

​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, Davis, School of Law
  Kaly Rule
  National Center for Lesbian Rights (San Francisco, CA)

  Courtney Hatchett
  Texas Civil Rights Project (Austin, TX)

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 (San Francisco, CA)
  • 2017 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law


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