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The vacation season is an opportune time to assume not nearly Biglaw compensation, events, and holidays, but additionally in regards to the much less lucky. It’s a time to be pleased about our blessings, but additionally to share these blessings with others.
So it’s applicable that this time yearly is after we study in regards to the newest class of Skadden Fellows. As we’ve defined up to now, these prestigious fellowships, the public-interest world’s model of Supreme Court clerkships or Rhodes Scholarships, permit their recipients to pursue public curiosity work on a full-time foundation for 2 years. This 12 months marks Skadden’s thirty fifth anniversary for the reason that inception of this system in 1988. Since then, Skadden has funded almost 1,000 fellows.
Earlier this week, shortly earlier than Thanksgiving, Skadden introduced its 2024 class of fellows. These 28 graduating legislation college students and judicial clerks will work in 17 cities in 13 states throughout the United States, specializing in such points as incapacity rights, schooling fairness, housing, immigrants’ rights, mortgage debtors’ rights, LGBTQ+ healthcare rights, and environmental legislation.
For the 2024 class of fellows, Yale led the way in which with eight fellows, Berkeley produced three fellows, and Havard, NYU, Penn, and American minted two. The remaining legislation faculties every positioned one graduate into this system — together with two newcomers to the listing, the University of Iowa College of Law and the Hofstra University School of Law.
Congratulations to the brand new Skadden Fellows — and due to them, in addition to Skadden Arps, for all that they do in service of the general public curiosity.
Below, you’ll see the entire listing of the 2024 Skadden Fellows and the organizations they’ll be working for.
Jacob Abudaram
University of Michigan Law School
ACLU, Disability Rights Program
Washington, DC
Use strategic impression litigation below the Americans with Disabilities Act to push authorities companies to be extra disability-inclusive in catastrophe planning and navigating emergencies.
Catherine Blalock
American University Washington College of Law
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Washington, DC
Challenge systemic obstacles to greater schooling impeding low-income college students, first-generation college students, and college students of coloration — specifically legacy admissions and inflexible standardized check rating necessities.
Helen Carstarphen Malley
Yale Law School
ACLU of Alaska
Anchorage, AK
Impact litigation, legislative advocacy and group schooling to advance a state constitutional proper to shelter and promote entry to shelter.
Grace Choi
Yale Law School
ACLU, Immigrants’ Rights Project
New York, NY
Implement a multi-pronged authorized undertaking to mitigate systemic obstacles and hostile federal coverage that at present slender entry to asylum.
Julio Colby
Harvard Law School
Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition
Nashville, TN
Direct illustration, systemic advocacy, and group outreach and schooling to low-wage immigrant employees. Will leverage Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement to safe immigration aid for employees and stress state labor companies to implement and enhance office protections.
Chelsea Diaz
Northeastern University School of Law
New Economy Project
New York, NY
Direct illustration, group schooling, and coverage advocacy assist to community-based organizations in search of to advance and maintain nonprofit group land trusts.
Mariam Elbakr
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Public Justice Foundation – Debtors’ Prison Project
Washington , DC
Direct illustration and impression litigation on behalf of indigent defendants and households harmed by the evaluation of extreme public defender charges in Tennessee.
Sophia Fenn
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
New York Legal Assistance Group
New York, NY
Represent underserved New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) tenants who face extreme habitability points brought on by NYCHA’s systemic divestment and neglect.
Diego Fernández-Pagés
Yale Law School
Make the Road New York
Brooklyn, NY
Address exploitation of immigrant employees of coloration in Westchester County by mobilizing two novel authorized instruments — a reporting app and Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement — to tell legislative advocacy, impression litigation and office organizing constructing collective, democratic energy.
Rebecca Harris
Yale Law School
National Veterans Legal Services Program
Arlington, VA
Direct illustration, group outreach and schooling and coverage advocacy to the households of veterans with severe disabilities in search of caregiver advantages or interesting unfavorable choices from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Maya Hiebert
New York University School of Law
ACLU of New Jersey
Newark, NJ
Direct illustration in administrative appeals, strategic litigation, and coverage advocacy on behalf of New Jersey dad and mom to reinforce parental rights within the youngster welfare system.
Malik Jarvis
New York University School of Law
Project on Predatory Student Lending
Boston, MA
Policy advocacy, outreach and litigation to guard debtors’ rights and cut back the burden of Parent PLUS loans on low-income households, with a specific deal with Black households.
Alexandra Johnson
Yale Law School
ACLU, LGBTQ & HIV Project
New York, NY
Bring impression litigation and develop public schooling supplies to problem and deal with state Medicaid packages’ prohibitions of and limitations on offering gender-affirming care.
Sara Kamouni
Harvard Law School
Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts
Brockton, MA
Provide immigration authorized companies and launch the primary centralized, digital useful resource hub in southeast Massachusetts. Will ship group programming that harnesses group members’ abilities to satisfy their authorized wants via a mix of legal professional help and self-help.
Allison Nasson
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Oregon Law Center
Portland, OR
Direct illustration and group schooling to unhoused Oregonians with disabilities, who’re experiencing heightened ranges of policing regardless of the state’s failure to supply sufficient, accessible shelter.
Chelsea Naylor
American University Washington College of Law
Whitman-Walker Health
Washington, DC
Direct illustration, schooling and outreach, and systemic reform to advertise the well being, security, and well-being of LGBTQ+, particularly transgender, youth.
Anna Belle Newport
Columbia University School of Law
Family Justice Law Center
New York, NY
Affirmative litigation and strategic appeals to problem unlawful household separations and surveillance performed by the Administration for Children’s Services in New York City. Will conduct outreach and coaching with local people networks of impacted households.
Luke Norquist
Stanford Law School
Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy
Saint Paul, MN
Launch an initiative that mixes litigation, administrative motion, and coverage advocacy to assist low-income residents of a Minneapolis neighborhood contest industrial air pollution.
Ferida Osman
Hofstra University School of Law
Central American Refugee Center of New York (CARECEN NY)
Hempstead, NY
Provide elimination protection and affirmative asylum illustration to particularly susceptible Afghan immigrants to assist their profitable resettlement in Long Island.
Shyamala Ramakrishna
Yale Law School
A Better Balance
New York, NY
Direct authorized companies, strategic litigation, and authorized schooling to battle employers’ use of latest applied sciences that deny New York’s low-wage employees within the manufacturing, logistics, and retail sectors their rights below federal, state and native legal guidelines.
Ben Rodgers
Yale Law School
Central West Justice Center
Springfield, MA
Legal illustration of migrant youngster employees with immigration, employment and household legislation wants. Will collaborate with native nonprofit group organizations to supply empowering academic packages.
Barbara Rodriguez
University of Iowa College of Law
Iowa Migrant Movement for Justice
Des Moines, IA
Legal illustration, group outreach, and know-your-rights trainings for detained noncitizens in addition to immigrants dwelling in distant, rural communities throughout Iowa who’re at excessive danger of being deported.
Isir Said
Yale Law School
CAIR Legal Defense Fund
Washington, DC
Direct illustration, public schooling and coverage advocacy to vindicate the rights of low-income Muslim girls who’ve had their spiritual head masking forcibly eliminated whereas in police custody.
Mia Stange
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Brooklyn Defender Services
Brooklyn, NY
Direct illustration in employment legislation and immigration issues to immigrant employees with a deal with figuring out and representing noncitizen employees eligible for Deferred Action for Labor Enforcement.
Nneka Ugwu
Loyola University School of Law, Chicago
Equip for Equality
Chicago, IL
Legal illustration, outreach and coaching, and coverage advocacy of Black college students with disabilities in Illinois to handle persistent disproportionality of exclusionary college self-discipline.
Elaina Vermeulen
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice
Oakland, CA
Direct illustration of and advance advocacy campaigns to guard detained immigrants susceptible to solitary confinement. Provide oversight and monitoring to make sure compliance with California legal guidelines.
Mikaela Wolf-Sorokin
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Nationalities Service Center
Philadelphia, PA
Legal illustration to indigent people detained in ICE custody who’ve ties to Montgomery and Delaware counties. Expand sources for professional se post-conviction aid petitions for immigration-related due course of violations.
Henry Zhu
Northwestern University School of Law
National Immigrant Justice Center
Chicago, IL
Direct illustration, outreach, authorized schooling and impression litigation to halt makes an attempt by the federal government to disclaim asylum protections to low-income immigrants who’ve suffered previous persecution or concern future persecution on account of their membership in a cognizable explicit social group.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, the place she’s labored since 2011. She’d love to listen to from you, so please be at liberty to e-mail her with any ideas, questions, feedback, or critiques. You can observe her on Twitter and Threads or join together with her on LinkedIn.
