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Fellow & Organization |
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Year |
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Sameer Ashar
Harvard Law School
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco, CA |
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Representation of community development organizations to ensure jobs created by military base closures will benefit members of poor communities. |
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1996 |
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Meg Barnette
New York University School of Law
Lawyers Alliance for New York Community Development Legal Assistance Center
New York, NY |
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Direct representation of community-based organizations engaged in affordable housing and economic development projects. Will work with CDC's to replicate successful models of affordable housing owned by low-income residents. |
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1996 |
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Marjorie Carter
Columbia University School of Law
The Legal Aid Society Brooklyn Neighborhood Office
Brooklyn, NY |
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Direct representation of poor children and their parents who need to gain access to early intervention and special education services |
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1996 |
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Maddy deLone
New York University School of Law
Children's Rights, Inc.
New York, NY |
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Advocacy for poor children in need of mental health services with particular emphasis on children in foster care. |
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1996 |
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Alison Flaum
Yale University School of Law
Urban Justice Center
New York, NY |
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Advocacy for the marginally housed to help them secure housing-based stability toward a goal of permanent self-sufficiency. |
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1996 |
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Carolyn Grose
Brooklyn Law School
Western Massachusetts Legal Services
Springfield, MA |
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Individual representation of poor custodial parents seeking to obtain and enforce child support awards. |
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1996 |
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Shannon Holliday
Yale University School of Law
American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama
Montgomery, AL |
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Advocacy for parents and students in poor school districts seeking compliance with recent consent decrees mandating reform. Also advocacy for children in foster care who are not receiving services they are due. |
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1996 |
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Kristin Kimmel
University of Michigan Law School
Lawyers for Children
New York, NY |
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Direct representation of individual children in care review hearings, custody proceedings and termination of parental rights proceedings. Also development of a rights handbook for children in foster care who have been sexually abused and development of a manual for foster parents on ways to create a safe home environment. |
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1996 |
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Catherine Krebs
Northeastern University School of Law
Children's Law Center of Massachusetts
Lynn, MA |
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Direct representation of foster children in abuse and neglect actions to expedite their cases to permanency. |
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1996 |
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Karen Krub
Yale University School of Law
Farmers' Legal Action Group
St. Paul, MN |
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Advocacy for financially distressed family farmers. Will also provide back-up services to farm advocates, rural legal services programs, private attorneys and others nationwide. |
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1996 |
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Elizabeth Letcher
University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law
Legal Aid Society of San Francisco Employment Law Center
San Francisco, CA |
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Advocacy to improve access for women and minorities to fire fighting and other protective service jobs in medium-sized California cities. |
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1996 |
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Jennifer Light
Vanderbilt University Law School
Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Chicago, IL |
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Direct representation to residents in housing and guardian disputes. Also community education for resident groups on their rights and responsibilities as Chicago housing residents. |
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1996 |
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Javier Maldonado
Columbia University School of Law
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Los Angeles, CA |
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Representation of community-based organizations of low-wage Latino workers on workplace safety rights and exploitative practices. Emphasis will be on construction, meatpacking and light manufacturing industries. |
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1996 |
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Sara Meerse
State University of New York at Buffalo Law School
Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Inc.
Presque Isle, ME |
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Direct representation of families with children on matters of adequate housing, access to healthcare and ensuing appropriate educational services for special needs children. |
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1996 |
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Ines Monte
University of Chicago Law School
Life Span Center for Legal Services and Advocacy
Chicago, IL |
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Individual representation of low-income women, primarily focusing on issues of domestic violence and child custody. |
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1996 |
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Chris Palamountain
Stanford Law School
National Center for Youth Law
Oakland, CA |
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Direct representation of foster care children in crisis. Also community outreach toward the goal of improving awareness of rights and responsibilities of foster families. |
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1996 |
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Mark Pearce
Harvard Law School
Center for Community Self-Help
Durham, NC |
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Representation of low-income community residents to increase home ownership opportunities in poor neighborhoods. Provision of transactional legal services to set up a secondary market for affordable housing mortgages. |
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1996 |
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Audrey Richardson
University of Michigan Law School
Greater Boston Legal Services
Boston, MA |
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Direct representation of low-income persons in race and national origin employment discrimination litigation. |
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1996 |
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Jessica Rosenbaum
Harvard Law School
The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
Washington, DC |
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Advocacy for working poor families seeking to keep their children out of foster care. Will also conduct workshops with Department of Public Services and Police Department Youth Division workers. |
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1996 |
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Samuel Santana
University of California at Los Angeles
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Los Angeles, CA |
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Working with garment manufacturers and garment workers. Will seek to eliminate workplace violations while attempting to save Los Angeles' garment industry. |
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1996 |
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*Holly Streeter
Georgetown University Law Center
Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc.
Miami, FL |
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Direct representation of immigrant and native-born victims of domestic violence. |
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1996 |
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Pat Walsh
Fordham University School of Law
Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky
Prestonsburg, KY |
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Advocacy for migrant workers forced to live in dilapidated trailers, derelict former motels and abandoned barns that are unsafe and unsanitary. Also representation on employment-related violations of rights. Will be jointly supervised by migrant labor specialists from Texas Rural Legal Aid. |
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1996 |
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Kimberly West-Faulcon
Yale University School of Law
NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.
New York, NY |
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Litigation to correct disparities in school systems not offering economically disadvantaged children educational opportunities. |
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1996 |
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Marni Willenson
University of Chicago Law School
Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Chicago, IL |
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Advocacy for and representation of community development organizations in Chicago's new Empowerment Zone with particular emphasis on job creation for public housing residents. |
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1996 |
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Karen Yau
Northeastern University School of Law
National Employment Law Project
New York, NY |
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Direct representation of workfare participants who are victims of violations of fair labor practices. Also development of a clinic with the support of local law schools, local service providers and community-based organizations that will serve as a national model to protect the rights of workfare participants. |
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1996 |
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