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Public Service Venture Fund

PSVF Fellow: Nasheen Kalkat (J.D. '18)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Lisa Glukstein (J.D. '18)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Richard Frost (J.D. '18)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Jacqueline Ebert (J.D. '18)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Joseph Crupi (J.D. '18)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Katrina Braun (J.D. '18)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Sam Bookman (J.D. '18)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Susanna Barron (J.D. '18)

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. 

PSVF Fellow: Hana Al-Henaid (J.D. '18)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Katherine Taylor (J.D. '17)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Divya Srinivasan (LL.M. '17)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Leora Smith (J.D. '17)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Korey Silverman-Roati (J.D. '17)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Malhar Shah (J.D. '17)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Katherine Sandson (J.D. '17)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Silvia Ruiz (J.D. '17)

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.

PSVF Fellow: Jessica Ranucci (J.D. '16)

Jessica Ranucci has been awarded a fellowship to work with the New York Legal Assistance Group's Special Litigation Unit to litigate on behalf of debt collection defendants in New York City civil court.

PSVF Fellow: Kelly Popkin (J.D. '17)

Kelly Jo Popkin has been awarded a PSVF fellowship to work as a traditional staff attorney in Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s national office in NYC, focusing primarily on federal and state litigation and policy work addressing anti-choice extremism, Medicaid cuts, and TRAP laws. Prior to this fellowship, Kelly Jo served as a James Vorenberg Equal Justice Fellow at Planned Parenthood of California, where she assisted the General Counsel in drafting and passing legislation to protect abortion providers from security breaches and invasions of privacy.

PSVF Fellow: Brian Pilchik (J.D. '17)

Brian will spend his fellowship year at the CPCS Innocence Program working on post-conviction appeals and new trials for indigent people who were wrongfully convicted in Massachusetts. Brian is returning to CPCS after spending two summers in CPCS Public Defender Division Trial Unit offices advocating on behalf of criminal defendants in Massachusetts Superior and District Courts.

PSVF Fellow: Lan Mei (J.D. '17)

Lan has been awarded a PSVF Fellowship and Henigson Fellowship to work with the Forest Peoples Programme in Guyana. At the FPP, Lan will focus on litigation and advocacy around indigenous land rights. While at HLS, Lan was a student attorney in the International Human Rights Clinic for two years and was involved in the Prison Legal Assistance Project and HLS Advocates for Human Rights.