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Alyssa Oravec has been awarded a PSVF fellowship to work with Equality Now in New York.  Her work with Equality Now will focus on ending sexual violence against women and adolescent girls and achieving legal equality.   During her time at HLS, Alyssa took part in three clinics: the International Human Rights Clinic, Making Rights Real: the Ghana Project, and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. 

Nick O’Neill will be joining the City of Boston Law Department to support the City’s work on behalf of its citizens through litigation and internal legal advising for municipal agencies.

Clíodhna completed her LL.M at HLS after obtaining a first degree in law and philosophy from University College Dublin, Ireland. Prior to coming to HLS, she worked as a teaching assistant in criminal law, company law and the philosophy of law in University College Dublin and as a paralegal in a corporate firm, focusing on healthcare litigation and employment law.

ith the support of the PSVF Fine Fellowship, the Borchard Fellowship in Law and Aging, and the Initiative for Public Interest Law at Yale, she hopes to reduce this disparity by returning to the Prisoners' Rights Office in Vermont, where she will implement a project addressing the needs of the state's growing population of elders under penal supervision.

Nasheen will be working at Reprieve in London, UK with support from the Public Service Venture Fund and a Harvard University Travelling Fellowship. She will contribute to the cases of individuals facing the death penalty in Pakistan and across South Asia and create international advocacy campaigns for abolition in partnership with local Pakistani organizations.

Lisa Gluckstein (HLS '18) plans to use her J.D. to promote inclusive and sustainable urban development. She has worked at the intersection of urban development, local government, and human rights through a variety of organizations, including the Tenant Advocacy Project, the California Office of the Attorney General, and the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office.

Colombia Diversa Bogota, Colombia Mariana is a Colombian lawyer that graduated from her LL.M. in 2018. Before coming to Harvard Law School she worked in…

Rich has been awarded a 2018 PSVF fellowship to work at the Education Law Center in Newark, New Jersey. He will focus on anti-bullying efforts in order to ensure all students can feel safe and supported in school, seeking to counteract unique threats brought about by the current political climate and the cyber era.

Jackie Ebert is thrilled to have to opportunity to spend her fellowship term at Legal Services of Greater Miami where she will be working with the staff and guests at Lotus Village, a trauma-informed homeless shelter serving over 500 women and children each night in Miami-Dade County, to address guests’ legal barriers to housing stability, sustainability, and self-determination.

Joseph's professional and academic work focuses on negotiations, with an emphasis on peace negotiations. During law school, Joseph worked with the Public International Law & Policy Group's Sudan peace negotiations team and the International Commission of Jurists' ASEAN program, in addition to clinical placements through the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program and the International Human Rights Clinic.

Katrina Braun (Katie) will be working at the ACLU of North Carolina representing unaccompanied minor asylum-seekers, particularly in appeals challenging the lack of procedural rights afforded to this highly vulnerable population.

As a Kaufman Fellow at the Cyrus Vance Center for International Justice, Sam will help to provide advice to NGOs and lawyers across the world, working in the Center's programs on Human Rights and Access to Justice, and Good Governance.

uring her time at Harvard Law School, Susanna served as President of Harvard Law Students for Reproductive Justice and the Executive Policy Editor of the Harvard Law and Policy Review and participated in the Health Law and Policy Clinic and the Family Law and Domestic Violence Clinic. 

Hana is committed to providing zealous advocacy to individuals who otherwise could not afford an attorney. As a student attorney with Harvard's Criminal Justice Institute, Hana represented indigent adult and juvenile clients facing misdemeanor and felony charges in Boston's criminal courts.

I will be using my PSVF to work with Kentucky Refugee Ministries this coming year.  I will represent clients in a wide range of immigration areas including representing children seeking to obtain Special Immigrant Juvenile status, family members seeking to be reunited with refugees, and asylum seekers.

At Equality Now, Divya will use regional and international law, along with other advocacy tools to work for the promotion and protection of the rights of women and girls around the world.

In January, Leora will begin work with the Human Rights Legal Support Centre where she will provide free legal services to people experiencing discrimination in violation of the Ontario Human Rights Code.

Korey is from Tucson, Arizona and has long been interested in international and environmental law issues. He received a B.S. in sustainability and a minor in political science from Arizona State University, where he focused on renewable energy generation. Before coming to law school, he spent a year in the eastern Turkish city Erzurum, teaching English to engineering university students and doctors on a Fulbright ETA grant.

After transferring to Harvard Law School, I was provided with the valuable opportunity to intern for Public Counsel’s Opportunity Under Law project, where I worked with their talented attorneys in their endeavor to ensure educational equity. Having become enamored with their goal of implementing trauma-sensitive school districts, I worked with them to design my fellowship project around that goal, which is the basis of my Public Service Venture Fund Fellowship.

Katie Sandson has been awarded a fellowship to work with the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic (FLPC), where she will work to address the impacts of pesticide use on farmworkers, small farms, and consumers.

Silvia will work at Dejusticia in Bogotá, Colombia, where she will be a part of the litigation team. She will work on local and international human rights cases at the local and international level. At HLS, Silvia was a clinical student with the Human Rights Clinic for three semesters, where she worked on a case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding prisoners’ rights in Brazil and on a Torture Victims Protection Act case regarding events in Bolivia in 2003.