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Fellow & Organization |
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Katina Ancar
Harvard Law School
National Center for Youth Law
San Francisco, CA |
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Advocacy to address the legal services, payment equity, social services and permanency planning problems of low-income children in kinship foster care. |
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2000 |
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Mary Anderson
New York University School of Law
The Law Project of the Chicago, Coalition for the Homeless
Chicago, IL |
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Direct representation of homeless children and their families on matters of access to a quality education. |
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2000 |
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Julie Becker
Yale University School of Law
The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
Washington, DC |
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Direct representation and administrative advocacy for low-income housing tenants toward the goal of family self-sufficiency. |
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2000 |
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Sophie Bryan
Harvard Law School
Legal Services Center
Jamaica Plain, MA |
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Basic legal services for low-income persons facing multiple problems on matters of family law, housing and benefits. Also will provide long-term financial and contingency planning for clients. |
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2000 |
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Ann Cammett
City University of New York School of Law
The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Neighborhood Office
Brooklyn, NY |
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Provision of comprehensive legal services for female ex-offenders and their children toward a goal of re-establishing themselves in the community. |
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2000 |
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Jennifer Ching
New York University School of Law
American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey
Newark, NJ |
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Direct representation of low-wage immigrant workers in the Newark area sweatshop economy. Will work in partnership with American Friends Service Committee Immigrant Rights Program. |
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2000 |
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Rebekah Evenson
Yale University School of Law
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco, CA |
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Impact litigation to address the barriers to employment faced by former welfare recipients who are now entering the labor market with a particular emphasis on access to childcare and transportation. |
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2000 |
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Kate Frucher
Stanford Law School
Advocates For Children
New York, NY |
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Direct representation of children in the child welfare system to ensure that their educational needs are met. |
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2000 |
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Claudia Gordon
American University Washington College of Law
National Association of the Deaf Law Center
Silver Spring, MD |
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Direct representation and advocacy for poor deaf persons with a particular emphasis on outreach to those who are members of minority groups. |
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2000 |
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Teri Horowitz
Fordham University School of Law
The Legal Aid Society, Juvenile Rights Division
New York, NY |
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Direct representation of special needs foster children who have been freed for adoption toward the goal of accelerated adoption or other permanent placement. |
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2000 |
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Megan Lewis
New York University School of Law
New Haven Legal Assistance Association
New Haven, CT |
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Advocacy on behalf of former welfare recipients who are now working or seeking work to help enforce their fundamental workplace rights. |
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2000 |
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Jojo Liu
Columbia University School of Law
Legal Services for Children, Inc.
New York, NY |
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Direct representation of disadvantaged children with special needs so that they can obtain access to special education. Also training of lay advocates and educational outreach to community organizations. |
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2000 |
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John Marth
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Urban Justice Center, Community Development Project
New York, NY |
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Direct representation of low-income residents of the Bronx in Housing Court and on matters obstructing their self-empowerment. |
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2000 |
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Katie Murphy
University of California at Los Angeles School of Law
Los Angeles, Western Center on Law and Poverty
Los Angeles, CA |
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Impact litigation, administrative advocacy and community outreach to reverse the decline in the MediCal case load that has resulted from welfare reform. |
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2000 |
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Sarah Paoletti
Friends of Farmworkers, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA |
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Direct representation of migrant and seasonal agricultural workers on matters including wage viola- |
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2000 |
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Mayra Peters-Quintero
New York University School of Law
The Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, Employment Law Center
San Francisco, CA |
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Individual representation and impact litigation for persons of color, including immigrants with disabilities facing barriers to education and employment. |
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2000 |
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Rebekah Smith
University of Maine School of Law
Maine Equal Justice Partners
Augusta, ME |
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Direct representation and impact litigation for low-income persons seeking to improve their access to welfare-to-work training programs toward a goal of achieving self-sufficiency. |
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2000 |
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James Smyth
Yale University School of Law
The Bronx Defenders
Bronx, NY |
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Direct provision of civil legal services for the families of the criminally accused on matters of eviction, loss of employment and termination of parental rights. |
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2000 |
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Kathryn Socha
University of Michigan Law School
Life Span Center for Legal Services and Advocacy
Chicago, IL |
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Provision of comprehensive legal services to low-income battered women on matters of protection, divorce, child custody and employment. |
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2000 |
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Marc Steinberg
Harvard Law School
The Public Justice Center
Baltimore, MD |
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Advocacy to improve access to healthcare for poor families by providing direct services for unlawfully terminated Medicaid beneficiaries and for Medicaid participants in managed care who have been denied services. |
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2000 |
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Sarah Stevenson
New York University School of Law
Lawyers Alliance for New York
New York, NY |
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Provision of transactional legal assistance to non- |
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2000 |
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James Talbert-Slagle
Washington and Lee University School of Law
Appalachian Research and Defense Fund
Prestonsburg, KY |
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Direct representation of coal miners experiencing barriers to re-employment after reporting unsafe working conditions. |
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2000 |
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Christopher Tan
Columbia University School of Law
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA |
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Impact litigation and advocacy to improve educational opportunities for youth in the economically disadvantaged communities of Los Angeles. Will work with community committees consisting of parents, teachers, students and educational reform advocates. |
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2000 |
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Marina Volanakis
Harvard Law School
Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Cobb County Office
Marietta, GA |
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Direct representation of child victims of abuse and neglect on such matters as custody, special education, medical and mental health care and public benefits. |
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2000 |
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Elizabeth Watson
Georgetown University Law Center
Welfare Law Center
New York, NY |
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Direct representation of participants in the City's workfare program who are subject to unsafe and unfair working conditions which violate labor and employment laws. Also creation of workshops, a hotline and a manual to educate workfare participants about their employment rights. |
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2000 |
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Jennifer Weiser Bezoza
New York University School of Law
Education Law Center
Newark, NJ |
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Monitoring of Phase II of enforcement of the constitutional rights of urban children to educational improvements through implementation of the comprehensive reforms and programs ordered by the New Jersey Supreme Court in Abbott v. Burke. |
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2000 |
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Lucy Wood
Yale University School of Law
Advocacy, Inc.
Austin, TX |
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Advocacy on behalf of persons with developmental disabilities to obtain community placements for those inappropriately placed. Also, direct representation of children with disabilities enrolled in Texas Children's Health Insurance Program who have been denied critically needed care. |
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2000 |
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