Undergraduate Summer Fellows & Host Organizations

Summer 2012

Barnard College
Gabrielle Fromer, ’14, Juvenile Rights Divison of the Legal Aid Society
Fatema Jannat, ’14, The Hon. Judy Harris Kluger, Chief of Policy and Planning for the NY State Courts, NY
Gilana Keller, ’13, Campaign for Educational Equity at Columbia's Teachers College


Brown University 
Priya Guar, ’12, Motley Rice, LLC
Robert Hunter, ’12, Vera Institute of Justice (NY)
Molly Lao, ’13, Human Rights Defender Program at Human Rights First
Stephanie Medina, ’13, UCLA Dowtonwn Labor Center
Marielle Sanchez, ’14, All of Kin, New Haven


Harvard College 
Ariana Cernius, ’13, Disability Law Center of Massachusetts
Tevin Colbert, ’14, Legal Aid Society (NY)
Jocelyn Eastman, ’13, Ella Baker Center - Books Not Bars Program
Emily Villa, ’13, Vera Institute of Justice (NY)


Princeton University
Cody Gray, 2nd year PhD, White House Domesitc Policy Council, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Geroge Maliha, ’13, U.S. Senator John Cornyn, 517 Hart Senate Office Building I
Tiennhan Phan, ’12, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration
Julia Spiegel, M.P.A. program Woodrow Wilson School, J.D. Candidate Yale Law School, Center for Justice and Accountability
Shaina Watrous, ’14, National Legal Aid & Defender Association

Spelman College
Ayana Cash-Clement, ’12, Atlanta Legal Aid Society
Michelle Eunice, ’13, Griffin & Strong, P.C., GA
Sharmalee Brooks-Gordon, ’13, Human Rights Project at the Urban Justice Center


Yale College 
Jenny Bright, ’13, NY Lawyers for Public Interest
Zachary Groff, ’13, Ayuda
Nia Holston, ’14, Bronx Defenders
Brandon Levin, ’13, Mayor of Newark, Cory Booker
Aseem Mehta, ’14, Vera Institute in NYC
Yishai Schwartz, ’13, Orleans Public Defender
Jessica Zhang, ’13, The Door

Summer 2011

Yale College

Alexandra Brodsky ’12, Justice Now, Oakland, CA

William Desmond ’12, Orleans Public Defender, New Orleans, LA

Katherine Haas ’12, Make the Road New York, Albany, NY

Ela Naegele ’12, Public Counsel, Los Angeles, CA

Aaron Podolny ’12, Queens Legal Services, Foreclosure Prevention Project, Queens, NY

Amalia Skilton ’13, ACLU of Arizona, Phoenix, AZ

Emma Sokoloff-Rubin ’11, Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid, Weslasco, TX

 

Barnard College

Stephanie Shih ’12, Vera Institute for Justice, New York, NY

Mitzi Steiner ’12, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY

Eva Vaillancourt ’12, NYCLU, New York, NY

 

Brown University

Katherine Blessing ’13, Community Legal Resources, Detroit, MI

Haley Kossek ’13, ARISE Chicago, Chicago, IL

Juan Martinez-Hill ’12, NYCLU, New York, NY

Alexander Tabloff ’12, Capital Appeals Project, New Orleans, LA

Amy Traver ’12, Rhode Island Health Center Association, Providence, RI

 

Harvard College

Olivia Clements ’12, Public Counsel, Los Angeles, CA

Alexander Guzov ’13, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC

Tsering Jan Van der Kuijp ’12, U.S. DOJ, Environment and Natural Resource Division, Washington, DC

Kristy Luk ’12, State Bar of CA and CA Department of Education, Sacramento, CA

Min Yu ’13, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC

 

Princeton University

Krisia Ildefonso ’12, Legal Services of New Jersey, Workers’ Legal Rights and Farmworker Projects, Edison, NJ

Laura Pedersen ’12, DOJ Office of Immigration Litigation, Washington, DC

Zayn Siddique ’11, Red Hook Community Justice Center, Brooklyn, NY

Justin Simeone 2^nd Year PhD in Politics, Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, NYU School of Law, New York, NY

Vinay Sitapati 1^st Year PhD in Politics, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi

Eric Stern ’11, New York City Council, Office of Council Member of Brad Lander, New York, NY

 

Spelman College

Taylor Allen ’12, Urban Justice Center, New York, NY

Shana Childs ’12, Urban Justice Center, New York, NY

 

Summer 2010

Yale College
Rachel Achs ’11, Osborne Association, New York, NY
Carolyn Herring ’12, Southern Poverty Law Center, Atlanta, GA
Julia Knight ’11, Bronx Defenders, Bronx, NY
Katherine Munyan ’11, Sanctuary for Families, New York, NY
Marcus Strong ’11, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Atlanta, GA
Lee West ’10, The Reinvestment Fund, Philadelphia, PA
Meng Jia Yang ’12, Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services, Washington, DC

Barnard College
Tina Law ’11, The Housing Help Program of The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn, NY
Gabriella Stern ’11, Center for Law and Education, Boston, MA
Kaitlyn Tongalson ’12, Lawyers for Children, New York, NY

Brown University
Wendy Castillo ’11, Public Counsel, Los Angeles, CA
Jee Hyun Choi ’11, Legal Aid Society, Special Litigations Unit, New York, NY
Michael G. Ewart ’11, Innocence Project New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
Jamal C. Hill ’11, Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA
Mindy M. Phillips ’10, Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, San Francisco, CA

Harvard College
Scott Elfenbein ’11, American Jewish Committee, Washington, DC
Adam Kern ’13, The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Katherine O'Leary ’11, The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Kelly Quinlan ’11, Advocates for Children of New York City, Inc., New York, NY
Marsha Sukach ’11, The Legal Aid Society of New York City, New York, NY
Katherine Walecka ’11, The University of Chicago Law School: The Exoneration Project, Chicago, IL

Princeton University
Rush Doshi ’11, U. S. Department of State, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor: China/Latin America Division, Washington, DC
Ashley Eberhart ’13, Oglala Lakota CASA, Pine Ridge, SD
Sierra Gronewold ’11, Bronx Defenders: Family Defense Program, Bronx, NY
Sarah Paige ’11, American Bar Association: Immigration Justice Project, San Diego, CA
Susan Reid, 1st year MPA/JD, ACLU of Northern California, San Francisco, CA
Thomas J.G. Scott, 1st year MPA/JD, Office of Native American Affairs, Domestic Policy Council, Washington, DC
Sarah Solon, 1st year MPA/JD, Berkeley Center on Health, Economic and Family Security, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Alicia Yue Zeng ’12, California Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Toxic Substances Control, Sacramento, CA

Spelman College
Jayla Randleman ’10, Bay Area Legal Services, Saint Petersburg, Florida
Danielle Stallings ’11, Dallas Public Defenders Office, Dallas, TX
Jordan Webber ’11, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Washington, DC

Summer 2009

Yale College
Matthew Delgado ’09, Public Counsel, Los Angeles
Shoshana Iliaich ’10, Public Interest Law Institute, New York
Adam Markovitz ’09, Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta
Sarah Nutman ’11, Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Financial Practices, Washington, DC
Stephany Reaves ’10, Community Services Administration, Office of the Mayor, City of New Haven
Lauren Ross ’11, Sanctuary for Families, New York
Eleanor Wertman ’11, Legal Aid and Social Services Divisions, Bread for the City, Washington, DC

Barnard College
Keely Faulkner ’10, World Childhood Foundation, New York, NY
Ruchi Shah ’10, Children’s Rights, Inc., New York, NY
Chelsea Zimmerman ’10, Juvenile Rights Project, Legal Aid Society, Bronx, NY

Brown University
Kara Apland ’09, International Center for Transitional Justice’s Reparations Unit in New York, NY
Emma Clippinger ’09, Rhode Island Center for Minority Health, Providence, RI
Camilla Hawthorne ’09, International Institute, Providence, RI
Britt Harwood ’09, Vera Insitute of Justice, New York, NY
Hannah Creek Olson ’10, U.S. Project for Immigration Rights, Columbia Law School, Human Rights Clinic, New York, NY

Harvard College
Aaron Frazier ’10, Monroe County, NY District Attorney’s Office, Rochester, NY
Jessica Frisina ’10, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC
Tamar Holoshitz ’10, Sanctuary for Families, New York, NY
Michael Qian ’11, ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, San Francisco, CA
Irina Vaynerman ’10, Federal District Court, Minneapolis, MN

Princeton University
Veneka Chagwedera ’09, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY
David Christie ’10, New York County Defender Services, New York, NY
Sarah Islam, Master of Arts Candidate, Near Eastern Studies, Karamah, Washington, DC
Kelly Lack ’10, Danish Institute of Human Rights, Copenhagen, Denmark
Karen Levy, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Project for Public Spaces, New York, NY
Marian Messing ’11, Human Rights Watch, Terrorism & Counterterrorism Program, New York, NY
Vanessa Rodriguez ’09, Rio Grande Legal Aid, San Antonio, TX

Spelman College
Ieshaah A. Murphy ’09, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, Washington, DC
Ginene Lewis ’09, Defender Association, Philadelphia, PA
Ariel Eckblad ’10, Bluhm Legal Clinic, Chicago, IL

Summer 2008

Yale College
Samuel Ayres ’09, Refugee Law Project, Research & Advocacy Division, Uganda
Angelina Calderon ’10, Public Counsel, Los Angeles
Adriana L. Garcia ’08, ACLU of Southern California, Orange County
Nicholas Aaron Handler ’09, Legal Action Center, New York
Aaron Littman ’10, Equal Justice Initiative, Montgomery
Anna Jo Bodurtha Smith ’10, All Our Kin, New Haven

Barnard College
Margaret Marron ’09, CONNECT, New York
Shareese Pryor ’08, Juvenile Protective Association, Chicago
MarySara Rojas ’08, Immigration Law Unit, Legal Aid Society, New York, NY

Brown University
Brenna Carmody ’09, Justice and Peace Commission, Harper, Liberia
Olivia Ildefonso ’09, ERASE Racism, Syosset, NY
Annie Koo ’08, Texas Community Building with Attorney Resources, Austin
Eric Rodriguez ’08, Stanford Criminal Justice Center, Stanford
Ariel Werner ’09, Office of the Public Defender, Providence

Harvard College
Melissa Ader ’09, NYC Bankruptcy Assistance Project, Legal Services NYC, New York
Vinita Andrapalliyal ’09, Immigration Justice Project, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery
Pawanpreet Dhaliwal ’09, Public Advocates, San Francisco
Seth Packrone ’10, Center for Law and Education, Washington
Michael Zuckerman ’10, Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Portland

Princeton University
Felipe Cala, 1st year Ph.D., International Center for Transitional Justice, New York
Ryan Ebanks ’09, Public Interest Law Institute, New York
Mark Zaichen Jia ’10, Alliance for Justice, Washington, DC
Lawrence Kornreich ’09, Legal Action Center, New York
Michelle Phelps, 1st year Ph.D., Prison Visiting Project, Correctional Association of NY, New York
Emily Kathryn Stehr ’08, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, U.C. Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley

Spelman College
Shannon Cumberbatch ’08, Child Advocate Attorneys Office, Fulton County Juvenile Court, Atlanta
Shaunicie Fielder ’09, Georgia Appleseed, Atlanta
Danielle Snead ’09, Child Advocate Attorneys Office, Fulton County Juvenile Court, Atlanta

Summer 2007

Yale College
Benjamin Eidelson ’08, Mayor Cory Booker, Newark, NJ
Alison Frick ’07, Prisoners’ Rights Project, Washington Lawyers Committee, Washington, DC
Naima Farrell ’07, Alliance for Justice, Washington, DC
Caitlin O’Brien ’08, Legal Aid Society, New York, NY
Jonathan Bressler ’07, Western Center on Law & Poverty, Los Angeles, CA

Barnard College
Deborah Brown ’07, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, NY
Nirupama Hegde ’08, NY Immigration Coalition, New York, NY
Jane Khodarkovsky ’08, Human Rights First, New York, NY

Brown University
Conchita Cruz ’07, Central American Resource Center, Washington, DC
Te-Ping Chen ’07, Bronx Defenders, New York, NY
Nabanita Pal ’09, Campaign 4 Youth Justice, Washington, DC
Rachel Judge ’07, ACLU of Northern California, San Francisco, CA
Zachary Townsend ’09, Legal Services Department of the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre, Sheffield, England

Harvard University
Whitney (Reese) Fogle ’09, Georgia Justice Project, Atlanta, GA
Tim Hwang ’08, ACLU National, New York, NY
Nicholas Kennedy ’08, Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Austin, TX
Andrea Woloski ’08, Legal Aid Society, New York, NY
Susan Yao ’09, Lutheran Immigrant & Refugee Service, Washington, DC

Princeton University
Benjamin Brady ’07, Arkansas Legal Services, Little Rock, AR
Evan Magruder ’08, Harpers (special project with Human Rights First), New York, NY
Amelia Rawls ’07, NYU Center for Human Rights & Global Justice, New York, NY
Alisha Holland ’07, Instituto de Trabalho e Sociedade, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Kevin Woodson, Sociology PhD, University Legal Services, Washington, DC
Ronald Chatters III, MPA, ACLU of Southern California, Jail Project, Los Angeles, CA

Spelman College
Carmen Boykin ’07, Atlanta Circuit Public Defenders Office, Atlanta, GA
Lucretia Taylor ’07, Public Counsel, Los Angeles, CA
Raye Jordan ’07, Georgia Advocacy Office, Atlanta, GA

Summer 2006

Yale College
Elizabeth Ashamu, Defense for Children International, Togo, West Africa
Tess Korobkin, Youth Rights Media, New Haven
Carly Rothman, The Star-Ledger, New Jersey
Matthew Wansley, Office of the Public Defender, Arlington, VA
Daniel Winik, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia

Barnard College
Sara Colon, Harlem Community Advocacy Project, NYC
Emily Donaldson, NARAL Pro-Choice NY, NYC
Holly Snow, Indiana Domestic Violence Coalition & Prevention Network, Indianapolis

Brown University
Charles Cummings, Campaign for Educational Equity, NYC
Vanessa Huang, Justice Now, Oakland
Nina Keough, Rhode Island Right to Vote, Providence
Benjamin Miller, ACLU of Maryland, Baltimore
Felicity Rose, The Sentencing Project, Washington, DC

Harvard University
Tatiana Chaterji, Women’s Refugee Project, UC Hastings School of Law, San Francisco
Andrea Halpern, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, Boston
Michael O’Rourke, Medical-Legal Partnership for Children, Boston
Cindy Tan, Legal Aid Society, NYC

Spelman College
Ashlee Caligone, Juvenile Public Defenders Office, Austin
Brittany Armstrong, National Center for Youth Law, Oakland

Princeton University
Valerie Atkins, Kansas Legal Services, Topeka
Tiffany Bergin, Center for Community Alternatives, NYC
Sara Holloway, Beyondmedia Education, Chicago
Michael Murray, Legal Aid Bureau, Annapolis
Graduate Fellows:
Deborah Becher, Ph.D. candidate, The Reinvestment Fund, Philadelphia
Stephanie Greenwood, MPA/JD candidate, Tenants & Workers Support Committee, Alexandria

Summer 2005

Yale College
Drew Alt, Political Asylum/Immigration Representation Project, MA
Julian Darwall, National Center for Youth Law, San Francisco
Rachel Goodman, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, Chicago
Joshua Johnson, ACLU of Texas, Austin
Mateya Kelley, Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Chicago
Robert Lee, Electronic Frontier Foundation, San Francisco

Barnard College
Manmeet Kaur Bindra, Human Rights First, NY, NY
Maria Fitzgerald, Sanctuary for Families, NY, NY
Lyudmila Gorokhovich, Global Youth Coalition, NY, NY

Brown University
Maura Finigan, USPIRG, Washington, DC
Xaykham Khamsyvoravong, Rhode Island Legal Services, Providence
Rachel Lauter, Bay Area Legal Aid, Oakland, CA
Emma Rebhorn, Education Law Center, Newark

Harvard University
Robert Rogers, Legal Aid Society of New York
Elina Tetelbaum, The Forensic Panel, NY, NY
Cindy Nguyen, San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program
Andrea Yang, Greater Boston Legal Services

Summer 2004

Yale College
Josh Bender, Bronx Defenders, NY
Sarah Chang, Safe Horizon, NY
Alexis Hoag, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, San Francisco
Jocelyn Lippert, Northwest Justice Project & Northwest Women’s Law Center, Seattle

Brown University
Diana Brazzell, National Gay & Lesbian Task Force, NY
Kerry Miller, Legal Action Center, NY
Thomas Reuland, Center for Disability & Elder Law, Chicago
Philip Sanchez, New Mexico Legal Aid, NM

Harvard University
Mae Bunnagan, MA Immigrant & Refugee Coalition, Boston
David Chao, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, Washington, DC
Carolyn McKay, ABA Section on Individual Rights & Responsibilities, Chicago
Jeannette Park, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, CA

Summer 2003

Yale College
Maeve Herbert, Bronx Defenders, NY
Joanna Lydgate, Youth Rights Media, CT
Josie Rodberg, Harm Reduction Project, CO

Brown University
Katherine Burdick, RI Legal Services, RI
Louisa Lombard, Small Arms Survey, NY
Emily Timm, Casa of Maryland
Doran Wu, Rhode Island Public Defender

Harvard University
Grant Devine, Youth Advocacy Project, MA
Jim Kruzer, Legal Aid Society, Cleveland, OH
Stephanie Lai, National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, Washington, DC
Gillian Warmflash, ACLU National Capital, DC