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Fellow & Organization |
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Year |
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Muneer Ahmad
Harvard Law School
Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Los Angeles, CA |
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Direct representation of low-income workers on workplace rights issues and legal advocacy on behalf of workfare-related job training programs. |
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1997 |
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Cory Booker
Yale University School of Law
Urban Justice Center
New York, NY |
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Provision of basic legal services to families and urban youth at Newark housing project clinics. |
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1997 |
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Reed Colfax
Yale University School of Law
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
New York, NY |
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Advocacy to ensure that federal block grants and tax credits are used to build and support housing for poor minority families. |
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1997 |
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Benjamin Diehl
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Bet Tzedek Legal Services
Los Angeles, CA |
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Direct representation of elderly and other low-income home owners who have been victimized by home equity fraud schemes. |
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1997 |
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Larry Dupuis
New York University School of Law
Legal Action of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI |
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Advocacy to protect the rights of poor persons participating in W-2, Wisconsin’s new welfare-to-work program. |
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1997 |
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Nancy Fishman
Yale University School of Law
The Legal Aid Society Community Law Offices
New York, NY |
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Representation of low-income tenant associations to preserve scarce tenement housing and to establish tenant cooperatives in East Harlem and Harlem. |
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1997 |
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Theodora Galacatos
Fordham University School of Law
Northern Manhattan Improvement Corporation
New York, NY |
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Legal representation of community childcare providers as a necessary step in community development. Representation on issues of licensing, government subsidies and landlord-tenant matters. |
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1997 |
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Peggy Healy
Fordham University School of Law
My Sister’s Place
White Plains, NY |
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Direct representation of victims of domestic violence and training of lay advocates as community educators. |
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1997 |
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Claudia Johnson
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Pennsylvania Health Law Project
Philadelphia, PA |
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Advocacy for low-income persons to help them gain access to healthcare and reimbursement for denied claims under managed care networks, with particular emphasis on the needs of the elderly and adolescents. |
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1997 |
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Olati Johnson
Stanford Law School
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
New York, NY |
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Litigation to challenge discrimination by Medicaid-managed care organizations, beginning in Tennessee and moving to other southern states. |
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1997 |
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Joshua Konecky
New York University School of Law
Disability Rights Advocates
Oakland, CA |
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Litigation to eliminate discrimination against children with disabilities in the California public school system. |
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1997 |
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Robin Lenhardt
Harvard Law School
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Washington, DC |
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Litigation regarding educational equity issues concerning poor and minority public school children. |
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1997 |
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Stephanie Miller
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 protect the workplace rights of workfare participants in the wake of Federal welfare reform. |
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1997 |
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Julia Mullen
University of New Mexico School of Law
Northern New Mexico Legal Services
Santa Fe, NM |
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Advocacy to enable low-income, rural communities to participate in burgeoning organic food industry by providing legal assistance in protection of land and water rights and formation of cooperative associations, zoning and patent rights. |
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1997 |
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Suzanne Nossel
Harvard Law School
Children’s Rights, Inc.
New York, NY |
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Litigation, monitoring and multi-faceted enforcement of structural injunction to reform New York City’s child welfare system. |
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1997 |
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Rosario Schrier
University of Notre Dame Law School
Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
Miami, FL |
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Provision of basic legal services to immigrant families at two school-based legal clinics. |
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1997 |
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Carolyn Shapiro
University of Chicago Law School
The Poverty Law Project National Clearinghouse for Legal Services
Chicago, IL |
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Individual representation of Illinois welfare recipients with multiple barriers to self-sufficiency. |
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1997 |
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Stacie Siebrecht
New York University School of Law
Disability Law Center
Boston, MA |
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Litigation and advocacy on behalf of persons with developmental disabilities to obtain community placements for those inappropriately placed in nursing homes. |
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1997 |
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Bonnie Tenneriello
University of Michigan Law School
Michigan Migrant Legal Assistance Project
Grand Rapids, MI |
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Representation of migrant farmworkers on matters of employment discrimination, wage and hour violations, work conditions and housing disputes. |
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1997 |
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Steve Tobocman
University of Michigan Law School
Michigan Legal Services
Detroit, MI |
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Representation of two community economic development corporations in Southwest Detroit Empowerment Zone. |
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1997 |
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Sherry Trafford
Yale University School of Law
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Washington, DC |
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Advocacy for people with mental disabilities toward the goal of securing them fair housing. |
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1997 |
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Heather Way
University of Texas School of Law
Legal Aid of Central Texas
Austin, TX |
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Representation of two community-based non-profit organizations developing affordable housing for the poor and a tenant advocacy group working to improve conditions in low-income apartments. |
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1997 |
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Kristin Weber
University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law
National Center for Youth Law
Oakland, CA |
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Direct representation and advocacy for low-income disabled children and their families who are struggling to retain SSI and other benefits in the wake of welfare reform. |
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1997 |
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Elizabeth Wehner
New York University School of Law
Legal Aid Society of Charleston
Charleston, WV |
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Provision of basic legal services to indigent Appalachians moving from welfare-to-work on issues regarding family, consumer and employment matters. |
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1997 |
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Alison Wheeler
Harvard Law School
Mental Health Advocacy Services
Los Angeles, CA |
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Direct representation of indigent children with mental and developmental disabilities in dependency court proceedings. Issues involve overly restrictive placements as well as agencies’ failure to provide education, treatment and basic support services as required by law. |
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1997 |
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