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1 March 2013
2013 Ford Foundation Law School Fellows
The first cohort of the Ford Foundation Law School Public Interest Fellowship Program has been selected and notified by their respective law schools. The exceptional and dedicated students selected for participation in this inaugural year will work with Ford grantees around the world during the summer of 2013. Learn more about the program.
Harvard
| Beijing Yilian Legal Aid and Study Center of Labor | Beijing, China | Julina Guo |
| Center for Constitutional Rights | New York, NY | Nicole Summers |
| Center for Justice and Accountability | San Francisco, CA | Ariel Nelson |
| Center for Reproductive Rights | New York, NY | Ruchi Shah |
| Human Rights First | Washington, D.C. | Meghan Michael |
| International Commission of Jurists | Geneva, Switzerland | Sarah Wheaton |
| LatinoJustice | New York, NY | Lindsay Kaley |
| Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights | San Francisco, CA | Elizabeth Floyd |
| Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund | San Antonio, TX | Elizabeth Hadaway |
| Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund | Washington, D.C. | Melanie Berdecia |
| National Day Laborer Organizing Network | Los Angeles, California | Sean Hamidi |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance | San Francisco, CA | Abbey Marr |
| National Economic and Social Rights Initiative | New York, NY | Melanie Zuch |
| National Gay and Lesbian Task Force | Washington, D.C. | Conor Ahern |
| National Partnership for Women and Families | Washington, D.C. | Maggie Dunbar |
| Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project | New York, NY | Jenna Prochaska |
| New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice | New Orleans, LA | Morgan Everhart |
| New Visions for Public Schools | New York, NY | Nicholas Pastan |
| Ohio Justice & Policy Center | Cincinnati, OH | Donna Harati |
| Public Advocates | San Francisco, CA | Megumi Tsutsui |
| Public Advocates | San Francisco, CA | Matthew Nickell |
| Public Citizen Foundation | Washington, D.C. | Adriana Benedict |
| Public Citizen Foundation | Washington, D.C. | Michael Decker |
| Women’s Link Worldwide | Bogota, Colombia | Jean Strout |
| Women’s Link Worldwide | Madrid, Spain | Maryum Jordan |
NYU
| Alliance for Justice | Washington, D.C. | Vivake Prasad |
| Alliance for Justice | Washington, D.C. | Andrew Jondahl |
| Brennan Center for Justice | New York, NY | Adrienne Warrell |
| Brennan Center for Justice | Washington, D.C. | Monte Frenkel |
| Conectas | São Paulo, Brazil | Gabrielle Apollon |
| Conectas | São Paulo, Brazil | Alex Connelly |
| Environmental Defense Fund | Boulder, Colorado | Sheila Baynes |
| Environmental Defense Fund | Washington, D.C. | Jack Nelson |
| Equal Justice Initiative | Montgomery, AL | Brittany Francis |
| Human Rights First | New York, NY | Johann Strauss |
| Immigrant Legal Resource Center | San Francisco, CA | Juan Camilo Mendez Guzman |
| Juvenile Law Center | Philadelphia, PA | Jesse Dong |
| Juvenile Law Center | Philadelphia, PA | Nishi Kumar |
| Lambda Legal | New York, NY | Geoffrey Wertime |
| Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund | Los Angeles, California | Cristopher Santos |
| Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund | Washington, D.C. | Rebecca Hufstader |
| Muslim Advocates | San Mateo, California | Rahim Manji |
| National Economic and Social Rights Initiative | New York, NY | Colin Stroud |
| National Women’s Law Center | Washington, D.C. | Anne Mathews |
| New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice | New Orleans, LA | Joshua David Riegel |
| Project on Government Oversight | Washington, D.C. | Aimee Thomson |
| Socio-Economic Rights Institute | Johannesburg, South Africa | Lyuba Docheva |
| United States Public Interest Research Group Education Fund | San Francisco, CA | Julia McCarthy |
| Vera Institute of Justice | New Orleans, LA | Emma Clippinger |
| Vera Institute of Justice | New York, NY | Siobhan Atkins |
Stanford
| Action Canada for Population and Development | Geneva, Switzerland | Rebecca Vogel |
| Alliance for a Better Community | Los Angeles, California | Cesar De La Vega |
| Asian Law Caucus | San Francisco, CA | Nisha Kashyap |
| Beijing Qianqian Law Firm | Beijing, China | Nicole Marquez |
| Brennan Center for Justice | New York, NY | Kevin Jason |
| Center for American Progress | Washington, D.C. | Abhay Aneja |
| Center for Reproductive Rights | New York, NY | Lauren Finkelstein |
| Constitution Project | Washington, D.C. | Roberto De Luca |
| Environmental Defense Fund | New York, NY | Amanda Prasuhn |
| Human Rights First | New York, NY | Neel Lalchandani |
| Indian Law Resource Center | Washington, D.C. | Ashlee Pinto |
| International Commission of Jurists | Geneva, Switzerland | Mark Middaugh |
| Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund | Los Angeles, California | Mikael Rojas |
| NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund | New York, NY | Jennifer Williams |
| National Employment Law Project | Washington, D.C. | Briane Cornish |
| National Employment Law Project | Oakland, CA | Camden Vilkin |
| National Gay and Lesbian Task Force | Washington, D.C. | Salvatore Bonaccorso |
| National Health Law Program | Los Angeles, California | Byung-Kwan Park |
| National Immigration Law Center | Washington, D.C. | Stacy Villalobos |
| National Immigration Law Center | Los Angeles, California | Atenas Burrola |
| Native American Rights Fund | Boulder, Colorado | Steven Seber |
| Public Citizen Foundation | Washington, D.C. | Sophia Rios |
| The Sentencing Project | Washington, D.C. | Christopher Lewis |
| Vera Institute of Justice | Washington, D.C. | Alyssa Weis |
| Women’s Link Worldwide | Madrid, Spain | Denise Ballesteros |
Yale
| Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund | New York, NY | Haran Tae |
| Aspen Institute | Washington, D.C. | William Zichawo |
| Brookings Institution | Washington, D.C. | Vishal Chanani |
| Brookings Institution | Washington, D.C. | Jane Chong |
| Center for American Progress | Washington, D.C. | Gabriel Scheffler |
| Center for International Environmental Law | Washington, D.C. | Jennifer Skene |
| Environmental Defense Fund | Washington, D.C. | Mordechai Treiger |
| Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders | Boston, MA | Irina Vaynerman |
| Human Rights Watch | New York, NY | Celso Perez |
| Human Rights Watch | New York, NY | Ryan Thoreson |
| Indian Law Resource Center | Helena, Montana | Whitney Leonard |
| International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission | Johannesburg, South Africa | Valida Prentice |
| International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission | New York, NY | Alexandra Hess |
| Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights | San Francisco, CA | Gillian Quandt |
| National Consumer Law Center | Boston, MA | Joseph Sanderson |
| National Health Law Program | Carrboro, NC | Sarah Grusin |
| National Women’s Law Center | Washington, D.C. | Abigail Graber |
| National Women’s Law Center | Washington, D.C. | Lauren Hartz |
| Neighborhood Economic Development Advocacy Project | New York, NY | Jacob Siegel |
| Ohio Justice & Policy Center | Cincinnati, OH | Emily Rock |
| Public Advocates | San Francisco, CA | Chase Sackett |
| Public Citizen Foundation | Washington, D.C. | Jacob Goldberg |
| The Sentencing Project | Washington, D.C. | Virginia McCalmont |
| Women’s Link Worldwide | Bogota, Colombia | Allana Kembabazi |
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