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Sean Arthurs
University of Cincinnati College of Law
Legal Aid Society of Greater Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH |
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Direct representation to region's Latino immigrant population on issues of education and domestic violence. |
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2005 |
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Shakti Belway
Stanford Law School
Mississippi Center for Justice
Jackson, MS |
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Direct representation of students at the school district level in their efforts to obtain appropriate education services. Also, impact litigation that redresses Mississippi's failure to adequately fund its special education programs. Outreach and partnership with communities to ensure that families and communities know their rights and have a voice in shaping policy reforms. |
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2005 |
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Sarah Boonin
Harvard Law School
Legal Services Center
Jamaica Plain, MA |
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Direct representation of low-income victims of domestic violence through the development of an innovative partnership between Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Legal Services Center. |
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2005 |
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Ann-Marie Dooley
University of North Carolina School of Law
Legal Aid of North Carolina - Greensboro
Greensboro, NC |
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Direct representation of low-income persons with mental disabilities suffering housing discrimination and facing illegal evictions. Will also train tenants, landlords, housing authorities and homeless shelters on their rights and responsibilities under the Fair Housing Act and the American with Disabilities Act. |
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2005 |
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Autumn Elliott
Harvard Law School
Bread for the City, Southeast Service Center
Washington, DC |
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Direct representation of disabled persons facing eviction. Plans to engage in affirmative litigation, such as obtaining temporary injunctions or declaratory judgments for clients who require structural modifications to their apartments, and will help clients file administrative complaints. |
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2005 |
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Lindsay Ernst
Fordham University School of Law
Legal Aid Society of New York City - Juvenile Rights Division
New York, NY |
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Direct representation of incarcerated children from Queens in judicial and administrative proceedings toward the goal of securing special-needs services and ensuring their successful re-entry into their communities. |
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2005 |
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Katie Eyer
Yale University School of Law
Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights
Philadelphia, PA |
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Direct representation, administrative and informal advocacy, and community education to fight sexual orientation and gender identity employment discrimination. |
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2005 |
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Jennifer Flory
University of Southern California Law School
Western Center on Law and Poverty
Los Angeles, CA |
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Advocacy to monitor implementation of new healthcare reforms affecting affordability, will identify best and worst practices for intervention and promote models for reform. Also, litigation for systemic reform of affordability policies in public health coverage programs. |
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2005 |
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Elena Goldstein
Harvard Law School
New York Legal Assistance Group
New York, NY |
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Direct representation of low-income working women in maintaining their employment by ensuring that workplace conditions adhere to legal requirements and enabling access to supplemental public benefits, such as childcare and food stamps. |
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2005 |
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Kate Griffith
New York University School of Law
Workers' Rights Law Center of New York
Kingston, NY |
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Direct representation and community education for low-wage tourism workers who suffer widespread workplace abuses in restaurants, hotels and resorts of New York's Hudson River Valley. |
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2005 |
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Samantha Kading
University of Wisconsin Law School
Land Tenure Center
Madison, WI |
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Develop and conduct estate planning workshops for the eleven Native American Tribes in Wisconsin with the goal of planning for land consolidation during life. |
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2005 |
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Karie Lew
Stanford Law School
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA |
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Direct representation, community education and systemic advocacy to ensure that foster children's educational and mental health needs are met with appropriate services. |
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2005 |
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Bryn Martyna
Stanford Law School
National Center for Youth Law
Oakland, CA |
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Will work with foster youth, local advocates, courts, and other community partners to implement a precedent-setting settlement agreement to reform the child welfare system in the state of Washington. It is hoped this project will create a model for reform nationwide. |
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2005 |
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Erin McCormack-Herbert
New York University School of Law
Legal Services for Children, Inc.
New York, NY |
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Will administer the Fairness Fund, a revolving fund that will allow low-income disabled children to obtain private-sector services while seeking Department of Education services. Will identify clients with special education legal violations, supervise fund administration and conduct impartial hearings to obtain reimbursement. Will also create a manual to facilitate Fairness Fund replication in other jurisdictions. |
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2005 |
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Julie Morse
Syracuse University College of Law
Legal Services of Central New York, Inc.
Syracuse, NY |
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Will serve as a liaison between Legal Services of Central New York and Syracuse University's new Center on Disability Studies, Law and Human Policy. Will provide individual legal representation for disabled persons who are inappropriately institutionalized and seek to live in less restrictive community settings. |
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2005 |
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Amy Myers
University of Michigan Law School
Women Empowered Against Violence (WEAVE)
Washington, DC |
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Direct legal services and community education for domestic violence victims in danger of losing their children. |
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2005 |
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Yungsuhn Park
University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law
Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Los Angeles, CA |
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Implementation of advocacy model promoting economic justice for low-wage workers based on successful garment worker advocacy model undertaken by a previous Skadden Fellow. Elements will include impact litigation, policy advocacy and worker education/leadership development. |
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2005 |
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Thomas Plummer
University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law
Legal Services for Children
San Francisco, CA |
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Direct representation of at-risk lesbian and gay youth towards a goal of greater safety and stability for such persons. Will address issues including permanency planning, education, preventing or alleviating abuse and neglect and obtaining emancipation orders. |
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2005 |
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Anna Rotman
Harvard Law School
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
El Paso, TX |
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Direct representation of farmworkers to remedy injuries from labor, housing and transportation violations and will share best practices on responding to farmerworkers' needs with legal services lawyers nationwide. |
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2005 |
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Steven Sharpe
Indiana University School of Law
Indiana Legal Services - Bloomington
Bloomington, IN |
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Will advise and defend homeowners who are at risk of being or have been victimized by predatory lenders. Also, hopes to halt abusive lending practices through collaborative litigation, community outreach and education. Will also assist in refinancing, if beneficial. |
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2005 |
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Jessica Shoemaker
University of Wisconsin Law School
Farmers Legal Action Group, Inc.
St. Paul, MN |
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Direct legal services to financially distressed family farmers on credit, contract, regulatory and land tenure issues. |
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2005 |
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Anika Singh
New York University School of Law
Urban Justice Center, Community Development Project
New York, NY |
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Direct representation to individuals and community-based organizations to enforce consumer rights and build financial institutions in new immigrant communities in New York City. Emphasis will be on victims of predatory practice perpetrated by profit-making credit counseling agencies, such as check cashers and payday lenders. Will hope to build credit unions based on a model of micro-lending that includes faith-based organizations, chambers of commer |
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2005 |
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Priyamvada Sinha
New York University School of Law
Children's Rights, Inc.
New York, NY |
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Impact litigation establishing and enforcing the educational rights of youths in foster care in Southeastern States. Will conduct community education with youths, foster families, foster care administrators and public schools. |
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2005 |
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Adam Stofsky
Harvard Law School
The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Washington, DC |
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Impact litigation and community outreach for vulnerable lowest-wage workers. Will use increasingly accessible media like digital video to raise awareness of legal rights within client communities. Issues to be addressed will include wage, gender, race and/or national origin discrimination, as well as exploitative and inhumane working conditions. |
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2005 |
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Jennifer Sung
Yale University School of Law
The Brennan Center for Justice
New York, NY |
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Provision of legal services to low-wage workers' groups to help them pursue litigation and policy campaigns to enforce and strengthen wage and health benefit protections for working families. |
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2005 |
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Sharon Terman
Stanford Law School
The Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, Employment Law Center
San Francisco, CA |
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Impact litigation and advocacy to fulfill the promise of California's new law granting workers paid family leave. Will focus on vindicating the family leave rights of language minorities and the working poor. |
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2005 |
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Karen Tumlin
University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law
National Immigration Law Center
Los Angeles, CA |
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Impact litigation to protect the workplace rights and dignity of immigrant workers. Will ensure that workers injured on the job are not inappropriately denied workers' compensation and that immigrant workers' rights to bring Title VII suits when they are discriminated against on race, religion, or gender are not thwarted. |
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2005 |
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Max Weinstein
Yale University School of Law
Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A
Brooklyn, NY |
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Defense of individual victims in foreclosure cases asserting affirmative claims against predatory lenders. |
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2005 |
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