Paul Keefe, CUNY Law School ’07, will advocate on behalf of the formerly incarcerated in New York City, combining community education and legal advocacy in an effort to remove barriers to employment, housing, and voting.
Nina Rabin, Yale Law ’03, will start a worker center and legal clinic in Arizona serving low-wage domestic workers, many of whom are immigrant women.
Katherine Wiltenburg Todrys, Yale Law ’07, will develop and implement curricula and advocacy materials on patient confidentiality for use by health care professionals in Kenya, Ethiopia and Malawi.
2006
Homer Robinson, Yale Law ’02, received a grant to manage a broad-based coalition in New Mexico in an effort to reform that state’s indigent defense system.
Rachel Nicotra, CUNY School of Law at Queens College ‘06, received a grant to implement a socially-responsible consumption campaign addressing the inadequate wages paid restaurant workers in New York City.
2005
Alexis Danzig and Megan Dorton received a grant to provide legal services to New York City’s growing elderly indigent and low-income LGBT population.
Rachel Micah-Jones received a grant to start a transnational workers’ rights law firm based in Central Mexico to help migrant workers assert their rights while in the U.S.
John Pollock received a grant to develop and bring impact litigation to combat source-of-income discrimination in Maryland’s housing market.
2004
Melanie Carr received a grant to provide investigative assistance and mitigation development to indigent defendants facing the death penalty in Louisiana.
Victoria Gavito, St. Mary’s Law ’04, received a grant to work with “theft of wages” claims to pursue prosecution of employers in Texas who fail to pay immigrant workers.
Kevin Kish, Yale Law ’04, received a grant to provide outreach and legal representation to low-wage and undocumented car wash employees in Los Angeles County, utilizing newly-available state court claims based on recent legislation.
2003
Tara Veazey, Yale Law ’01, received a grant to make courts more accessible to low-income residents of rural Eastern Montana.
2002
Kim Rinehart, Yale Law ’99, was awarded a grant to create a network of family child care providers in New Haven to raise the quality of family child care and help child care providers earn a living wage.
J. McGregor Smyth, Yale Law ’99, was awarded a grant to establish a project to deliver fully-integrated civil and criminal legal services to indigent defense clients in the Bronx.
Dylan Vade, Stanford Law ’02, was awarded a grant to increase transgendered people’s access to health insurance and healthcare in California.
2001
Sean Basinski, Georgetown Law ’01, was awarded a grant to provide broad-scale legal, organizing, and advocacy services to the street vendors of New York City.
Michael Kagan, U. Mich. Law ’00, was awarded a grant to represent refugee asylum seekers in Cairo and build a self-sustaining network of refugees to provide assistance in the future.
David Wycoff, Yale Law ’92, and James Anderson, Yale Law ’95, were awarded a grant to represent indigent death row prisoners in Pennsylvania’s state courts.
2000
David Kelly, SUNY-Buffalo Law ’00, was awarded a grant to act as a legal guardian for older adolescents in Newark, New Jersey’s foster care system in order to reduce homelessness and equip the adolescents with the skills and services needed for independent living.
Lolita Pierce, UCLA Law ’99, was awarded a grant to provide comprehensive legal services and support for adolescent victims of domestic violence in Los Angeles County.
Benjamin Sachs, Yale Law ’98, was awarded a grant to develop and coordinate a community-based project to provide legal representation, employment rights training, and organizing support to low-wage immigrant workers in Brooklyn.