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Sabrina Adler
Stanford Law School
Bay Area Legal Aid
Oakland, CA |
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Provision of comprehensive legal services in a medical/legal collaborative at San Francisco General Hospital for low-income children and their families. |
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2008 |
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Farrin Anello
Yale Law School
ACLU Immigrants Rights Project
New York, NY |
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Direct representation and impact litigation for day laborers who are facing harassment, exploitation, and abuse in Westchester county. |
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2008 |
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Amanda Beltz
St. John's University School of Law
Manhattan Legal Services
New York, NY |
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Direct representation and educational services to Middle Eastern and African immigrant victims of domestic violence throughout Manhattan. |
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2008 |
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Elizabeth Cho
Harvard Law School
Legal Services Center
Jamaica Plain, MA |
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Direct representation, community and institutional education, and advocacy to enforce and strengthen the special education rights of Haitian immigrant children who have been exposed to violence. |
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2008 |
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Rebekah Cook-Mack
New York University School of Law
South Brooklyn Legal Services
Brooklyn, NY |
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Litigation, comprehensive representation and outreach to ensure that low-income victims of predatory lending are able to avoid foreclosure and remain in their homes. |
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2008 |
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Ruth Cusick
City University of New York School of Law
Mental Health Advocacy Services
Los Angeles, CA |
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Individual representation and impact litigation for low-income students with mental health disabilities who are being unlawfully suspended and expelled from school because of their disabilities. |
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2008 |
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Dania Davy
University of Virginia School of Law
The Land Loss Prevention Project
Durham, NC |
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Direct representation and community education for black farmers, will promote estate planning through individual legal counsel and devise model trust instruments to preserve black land-ownership. |
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2008 |
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Daniel Farbman
Harvard Law School
Advancement Project
Washington, DC |
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Community advocacy and impact litigation to advance community-led education campaigns promoting quality public education and college access to students of color in the Baltimore City and Miami public school systems. |
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2008 |
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Kyle Fisher
University of Michigan Law School
Pennsylvania Health Law Project
Philadelphia, PA |
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Direct Representation and community education to low-income veterans having trouble gaining access to healthcare through the Veterans Health Administration or TRICARE insurance programs. |
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2008 |
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Risha Foulkes
Rutgers University School of Law, Newark
ACLU Women's Rights Project
New York, NY |
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Advocacy, community education and impact litigation to improve workplace health and safety protections for low-income immigrant women. |
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2008 |
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Jesse Hahnel
Stanford Law School
National Center for Youth Law
Oakland, CA |
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Jesse leads the National Center for Youth Law's Foster Youth Education Initiative, an effort to identify foster children with unmet educational needs and ensure they receive appropriate educational advocacy and opportunities.
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2008 |
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Lam Ho
Harvard Law School
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
Chicago, IL |
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Will establish a community legal clinic for youths and their families in North Lawndale. The clinic will be housed in a community arts center and it will provide comprehensive legal services and legal education. |
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2008 |
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Michael Hollander
University of Virginia School of Law
Community Legal Services of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA |
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Direct representation and community education for low-income Latino workers in conjunction with a local workers' rights center.
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2008 |
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Jennifer Hrycyna
Northwestern University School of Law
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
Chicago, IL |
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Will monitor the implementation of new TANF rules in Illinois through direct representation in administrative hearings and eventual impact litigation. |
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2008 |
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Michael Kaufman
Stanford Law School
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
San Francisco, CA |
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Direct representation, community education, policy advocacy and impact litigation for domestic workers experiencing exploitation. |
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2008 |
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Joshua Kay
University of Michigan Law School
Michigan Protection and Advocacy Service
Wayne County, including Detroit, MI |
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Direct representation of parents with disabilities in child protection cases. |
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2008 |
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Daniel Klaff
Harvard Law School
Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI)
Chicago, IL |
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Advocacy for residents of federally subsidized housing to preserve their homes and to help them purchase their buildings when the subsidies expire. Will work with residents, community leaders, elected officials, publicly-funded housing agencies and private lenders to develop solutions that benefit both property owners and current low-income tenants. |
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2008 |
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Molly Kovel
University of Michigan Law School
Bronx Defenders
Bronx, NY |
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Direct representation for ex-offenders experiencing employment discrimination. Will obtain Certificates of Rehabilitation where necessary. Will also educate employers and community groups about the employment rights of formerly incarcerated persons. |
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2008 |
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Rachael Langston
University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law
Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center
San Francisco, CA |
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Advocacy to enforce existing reasonable accommodation legislation through community education and litigation to expand the definition of reasonable accommodation to include individuals with caretaking responsibility such as parents with disabled children. |
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2008 |
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Rebecca Antar Novick
New York University
Legal Aid Society, Health Law Unit
New York, NY |
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Direct representation of disabled Medicaid beneficiaries who have lost access to health care services as a result of mandatory enrollment in managed care plans. |
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2008 |
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Carmina Ocampo
University of California at Los Angeles School of Law
Asian Pacific American Legal Center
Los Angeles, CA |
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Advocacy, community education, litigation and worker leadership development for homecare workers enduring exploitative and unsafe working conditions. |
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2008 |
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Ajmel Quereshi
University of Minnesota Law School
ACLU Maryland
Baltimore, MD |
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Provision of community education, advocacy and impact litigation to provide a focused response to anti-immigrant initiatives being implemented locally in Maryland that target immigrant communities' ability to support themselves. |
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2008 |
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Harini Raghupathi
University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law
ACLU Immigrants Rights Project
San Francisco, CA |
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Direct representation, impact litigation, and advocacy to address systemic delays in naturalization adjudications for low-income, legal permanent residents. |
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2008 |
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Sean Riordan
University of California at Los Angeles School of Law
ACLU San Diego and Imperial Counties
San Diego, CA |
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Advocacy and impact litigation to combat civil rights abuses in San Diego's East African refugee community. |
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2008 |
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Erin Scheick
American University Washington College of Law
Women Empowered Against Violence (WEAVE)
Washington, DC |
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Will integrate a public health approach with traditional legal services to effectively represent limited English-proficient immigrant survivors of domestic violence, focusing on youth. Will expand legal services and enforce the basic right of health for domestic violence survivors. Will work closely with healthcare providers. |
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2008 |
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Naomi Shatz
Yale Law School
Legal Momentum
New York, NY |
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Representation of students suffering dating abuse, harassment, and bullying to enforce their rights under the U.S. Constitution, federal, and state laws. Development of model dating abuse and harassment policies for schools. |
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2008 |
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Thomas Smith
Georgetown University Law Center
Greater Boston Legal Services
Boston, MA |
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To confront growing insecurity in low-wage immigrant worker communities, will work to strengthen community groups and help them to focus on enforcing employment rights and, to a lesser degree, immigrant civil rights by empowering the organizations so they can better serve their clients. |
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2008 |
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Grace Spulak
Harvard Law School
Pegasus Legal Services for Children
Albuquerque, NM |
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Direct representation to low-income pregnant and parenting teens on matters of education, healthcare, housing, child custody and domestic violence. |
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2008 |
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David Steib
Georgetown University Law Center
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
Washington, DC |
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Will establish a new legal aid office in the Latino neighborhood of Columbia Heights to provide both direct representation and community education to Spanish-speaking residents. |
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2008 |
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Alexandra Stern
University of California at Los Angeles School of Law
The Alliance for Children's Rights
Los Angeles, CA |
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Direct representation of abused and neglected children aged 0-5 in the Los Angeles County foster care system that are in need of early intervention and special education services. Will also train caregivers and caseworkers to assess the need for and how to gain access to the services. |
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2008 |
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Sydney Tarzwell
Columbia University School of Law
Urban Justice Center Peter Cicchino Youth Project
New York, NY |
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Direct representation and impact litigation for poor gay, lesbian and transgender youth in New York City to ensure their safety. |
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2008 |
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Matthew VanWormer
University of Virginia School of Law
DNA - People's Legal Services
Shiprock, NM |
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Advice, referrals, and direct representation on health-impacting legal issues for patient families in a Navajo Nation hospital. |
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2008 |
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Rebecca Von Behren
Columbia University School of Law
Disability Rights Advocates
Berkeley, CA |
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Impact litigation and legal advocacy to ensure that Iraq and Afghanistan veterans with mental illness receive appropriate medical services and benefits. |
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2008 |
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Jennifer Wagner
New York University School of Law
Mountain State Justice
Charleston, WV |
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Direct legal representation to low-income West Virginia homeowners facing foreclosure due to adjustable mortgage rate change. Will also educate rural home buyers and advocate for reform. |
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2008 |
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Brandon Weiss
Harvard Law School
Public Counsel
Los Angeles, CA |
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In an effort to preserve affordable housing stock, will direct tenant/owner education and enforcement of tenant notice rights. Will link project with favorable sources of debt and tax credit equity to preserve affordability. |
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2008 |
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