Amy Maurer is going to work at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice in New York City. She will focus on enforcing and expanding the rights of workers in the home healthcare industry through direct representation, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.

Megan Vees will be working at The Bail Project, which combats mass incarceration by posting bail for defendants who would otherwise remain detained due to poverty.

Megan Field will spend her fellowship year at American Oversight, using public records laws to expose and fight corruption in the executive branch.

At Rights Watch (UK), Hayley will work on issues at the intersection of human rights and national security. In particular, she will work to address the impact of counterterrorism and preventing/countering violent extremism laws, polices, and practices on women’s human rights.

Lindsay Bailey will spend her fellowship year with the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) in San Francisco, California working with victims of torture and other human rights violations seeking civil remedies under the Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victim Protection Act.

Mississippi Center for Justice Jackson, MI Sam Reese was awarded the Langer Fellowship and will be working with the Mississippi Center for Justice in Jackson,…

As a recipient of the Sumner M. Redstone Fellowship in Public Service, Michael will be working on issues of children’s rights and justice for children in Cambodia. Throughout law school, he actively sought opportunities to assist in protecting children, especially in Southeast Asia.

Aaron was awarded the Summer M. Redstone Fellowship in Public Service to work with Prairie State Legal Services. He will be serving as a staff attorney working in the full range of legal aid areas with a focus on low-income tax problems and Medicaid denials.

Joe Breen has been awarded the Sumner M. Redstone Fellowship to work at the New York Legal Assistance Group, where he will combat fraud and predatory lending in higher education with a focus on representing military veterans.

Carina Bentata Gryting will spend her fellowship year with the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) in San Francisco, California working with victims of torture and other human rights violations seeking civil remedies under the Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victim Protection Act.

Musa will be joining the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) in Harare, Zimbabwe to do election-related human rights litigation. Zimbabwe finds itself in a precarious governance complexity, with government-sponsored human rights abuses spiking during election season. In 2018 the country goes for harmonized elections, and slowly human rights abuses involving the security apparatus and political party functionaries are on the rise.

Evelyn Zheng, JD’18 will be working with Advocates for Community Alternatives (ACA), based in Accra, Ghana, on challenges in human rights and development. They first became involved in political activism while studying for their bachelor’s at the University of Texas at Austin.

Katherine Robinson was awarded the Sumner M. Redstone Fellowship in Public Service to work at The Bail Project, the first nationwide bail fund. There she will aid clients seeking to post bail, facilitate the organization's expansion into new jurisdictions, and pursue litigation related to the bail system.

Sam Reese was awarded the Langer Fellowship and will be working with the Mississippi Center for Justice in Jackson, Mississippi. While at the organization, Sam will work to reform the Justice Courts, or small claims courts, of Mississippi by providing legal assistance to indigent individuals navigating the court system.

As a Public Service Venture Fund Fellow at Project South, Collin Poirot is working to vindicate the rights of marginalized immigrant communities across the South, while providing legal support to grassroots movements with a focus on combatting surveillance and racial profiling.

As a fellow with ACLU-DC, Michael will challenge unconstitutional policing in the District of Columbia through impact litigation and direct representation.  This work will build on his experiences at Harvard Law School, where he interned with the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, launched an advocacy initiative as chair of the Prison Legal Assistance Project’s Policy Committee, and served as a student attorney with Harvard’s Housing Law Clinic.

Cat has been awarded a 2018 PSVF Fellowship and the Skirnick Fellowship to work as a staff attorney at Towards Justice in Denver, Colorado. At Towards Justice, Cat will work to recover stolen wages and empower workers in Denver through direct representation and community lawyering in partnership with a collaborating workers’ center, Centro Humanitario Para Los Trabajadores.

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.