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Elissa Berger
Brooklyn Law School
Environmental Law and Policy Center
Chicago, IL |
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Legal assistance to a coalition of groups seeking to increase income, health, and employment opportunities in an underserved urban community by improving the energy efficiency of its housing stock. |
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2007 |
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Brian Blalock
Stanford Law School
Bay Area Legal Aid
Oakland, CA |
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Comprehensive advocacy on behalf of poor youth with disabilities and mental health needs in Alameda County through direct representation and collaboration with providers and school districts, to ensure access to educational, health, and social services these youth need. |
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2007 |
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Sarah Block
Loyola University School of Law, Chicago
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
Chicago, IL |
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Focusing on the intersection of domestic violence and child welfare, will provide direct representation to abused parents and their children regarding issues of neglect, divorce, custody, and orders of protection. |
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2007 |
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Sarah Bolling
Harvard Law School
Atlanta Legal Aid Society
Atlanta, GA |
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Direct representation of low-income homeowners facing predatory mortgage terms in state court, bankruptcy court, and arbitration. |
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2007 |
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Arielle Cohen
New York University School of Law
New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
Newark, NJ |
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The Housing Opportunity Project will provide direct assistance to low-income individuals facing barriers to housing while also addressing systemic policies that undermine the availability of sufficient, affordable, and integrated housing for all of New Jersey. |
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2007 |
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Nathan Fetty
West Virginia University College of Law
Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment
Lewisburg, WV |
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Direct representation and impact litigation to enforce coal miners' rights to report unsafe working conditions without retaliation. Will advocate for strong coal mine health and safety standards at both the state and federal levels. |
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2007 |
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Sienna Fontaine
New York University School of Law
Legal Services for New York-Bronx
Bronx, NY |
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Provision of comprehensive legal services in two family medicine health clinics to address the multiple needs of underserved families in the Bronx. Will also train health care providers to identify legal issues affecting their patients and make appropriate referrals. |
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2007 |
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Dorcas Gilmore
University of Maryland School of Law
Community Law Center
Baltimore, MD |
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Transactional legal services and enterprise development for aspiring youth entrepreneurs in two inner city neighborhoods. |
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2007 |
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Michael Grinthal
Harvard Law School
South Brooklyn Legal Services
Brooklyn, NY |
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Representation and impact litigation for tenants groups to prevent displacement of low-income tenants and to preserve affordable housing. |
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2007 |
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Jennifer Hill
University of Michigan Law School
Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center
Miami, FL |
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Direct representation and impact litigation for low-income workers experiencing workplace violations in the condominium, condo-hotel, and hotel industry in South Florida. |
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2007 |
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Sarah Hudson-Plush
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Center for Family Representation, Inc.
New York, NY |
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Advocacy for indigent parents, including teen parents, who are involved in all stages of the child protective system toward a goal of securing a quality education for their children. |
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2007 |
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Emily Kernan
Harvard Law School
Lawyers for Children
New York, NY |
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Direct representation, community and institutional education, and impact litigation to ensure the legal rights of children in foster care to acquire individualized mental health services. |
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2007 |
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Charlotte Lanvers
Cornell Law School
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund (DREDF)
Berkeley, CA |
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Advocacy and community outreach on behalf of children from low-income minority communities with chronic disabilities such as diabetes and asthma who are being denied simple health maintenance protocols. Goal is to keep such children in schools. |
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2007 |
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Miriam Lederer
Georgetown University Law Center
Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Washington, DC |
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Representation of tenants with disabilities experiencing barriers to quality and safe housing. |
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2007 |
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Ani Mason
New York University School of Law
Urban Justice Center - Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project
New York, NY |
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Advocacy and educational outreach to pregnant and parenting high school students on public assistance to ensure their access to post-secondary education and training programs. |
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2007 |
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Spring Miller
Harvard Law School
Southern Migrant Legal Services
Nashville, TN |
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Impact litigation and administrative advocacy to promote workplace health and safety rights of migrant agricultural workers in the states of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas. |
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2007 |
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Joy Milligan
New York University School of Law
NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc.
New York, NY |
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Impact litigation and advocacy aimed at overturning employment barriers for ex-offenders. |
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2007 |
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Dory Mitros Durham
University of Notre Dame Law School
Indiana Legal Services
South Bend, IN |
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Direct representation of immigrants experiencing bars to employment and education, and access to benefits. |
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2007 |
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Jesse Newmark
Harvard Law School
Centro Legal de la Raza
Oakland, CA |
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Comprehensive advocacy for indigent families and their school age children at a clinic to be based at the East Oakland Community High School. |
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2007 |
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Nicole Perez
University of California at Los Angeles
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA |
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Comprehensive legal services for homeless persons in collaboration with public and private agencies trying to prevent future homelessness. |
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2007 |
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Ian Spechler
University of Texas School of Law
Advocacy, Inc.
Austin, TX |
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Direct representation of children with mental health or emotional disabilities affecting behavior at hearings and team meetings. Would focus on pre-teens so that intervention could come before these school children are eligible for the juvenile justice system. |
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2007 |
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Michael Stein
Harvard Law School
National Association of the Deaf
Silver Spring, MD |
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Advocacy to increase the accessibility of medical services to deaf people and the hard of hearing. Will provide training to medical service providers and may then take legal action against medical service providers who refuse to provide accommodation as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and applicable state laws. |
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2007 |
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Katie Stewart
New York University School of Law
Center for Lesbian and Gay Civil Rights
Philadelphia, PA |
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Direct representation of lesbian and gay youth facing harassment or discrimination in schools and institutional settings. Will also act as child advocate for such youth in Philadelphia foster care proceedings to ensure fair treatment and appropriate placements. Will also represent lesbian and gay parents in dependency proceedings. |
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2007 |
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Marc Tafolla Young
Stanford Law School
The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco, CA |
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Seeks to revitalize the promise of the Williams settlement by providing direct representation to parents filing complaints about education deficiencies in their children's schools under the new Uniform Complaint Process (UCP). Will also use policy advocacy and impact litigation to resolve systemic issues that are brought to light by outreach school reports and utilization of the UCP. |
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2007 |
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Carole Vigne
University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law
The Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center
San Francisco, CA |
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Will establish the Mission Employment Clinic, a full service workers' rights clinic in the Mission District. Will provide representation to clients seeking to recover unpaid wages, report unsafe work-places, and file discrimination charges. Will also prepare self-help materials for community-wide distribution. |
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2007 |
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Robert Wall
University of Cincinnati College of Law
Ohio Justice and Policy Center
Cincinnati, OH |
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Will establish a legal clinic to provide direct representation for youth leaving the juvenile justice system to help them gain an education. Will also advocate to desegregate the Cincinnati public school system. |
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2007 |
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Adam Weiss
Columbia University School of Law
Advice on Individual Rights in Europe Centre (AIRE)
London, UK |
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Provision of legal assistance under European law for low-income EU nationals and their families migrating within Europe with a special focus on sexual minorities. Will also provide legal assistance under international human rights law (including the European Convention on Human Rights) to victims of trafficking and forced labor. |
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2007 |
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Christopher Wilmes
Northwestern University School of Law
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
Chicago, IL |
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Will assist individuals expunge and seal their arrest and conviction records and bring federal and discrimination employment lawsuits on their behalf. |
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2007 |
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Christina Yerian
Vanderbilt University Law School
Tennessee Justice Center
Nashville, TN |
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Direct representation, community education, and advocacy of at-risk children or those already in foster care who need mental health services. |
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2007 |
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Camille Zentner
Brooklyn Law School
New York Legal Assistance Group
New York, NY |
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Direct representation, community education, impact litigation, and advocacy to ensure those persons with mental disabilities and their families obtain fair and equal access to public benefits. |
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2007 |
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