Public Service Venture Fund

Miranda Mammen is going to work with the National Domestic Workers Alliance in Oakland, CA. Her project will enforce and improve labor standards for domestic workers across the state, including nannies, house cleaners, and personal attendants for elders and people with disabilities.

As a Kaufman Fellow, Radhika has elected to work at the Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG) in Washington DC as a Law Fellow specializing in transitional justice for conflict-ridden and newly post-conflict countries.

Alexi Jenkins will spend her fellowship year at the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA), establishing clinics at domestic violence shelters in order to meet the family law needs of immigrant survivors of color.

Milo Inglehart will be joining the Sylvia Rivera Law Project in New York City on a Sumner M. Redstone Fellowship in Public Service. Milo will be working to improve access to health care for low-income transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex New Yorkers through direct representation, coalition building, and policy advocacy.

Jianing Xie will be working at Cabrini Green Legal Aid (CGLA) in Chicago, Illinois to establish a Family Defense Practice for the organization.

Sara will be working as a staff attorney with World Relief in Chicago, Illinois, providing legal aid to refugees, asylum seekers, and others seeking humanitarian immigration services.

Madeleine O’Neill will be representing indigent clients facing the death penalty as a member of the Capital Litigation Unit at Southern Center for Human Rights.

Eliza McDuffie will be working at the MacArthur Justice Center’s Appellate Project in Washington, D.C., where she will focus on using appellate litigation as a vehicle for change in the criminal justice system.

Natalie will join the Public International Law & Policy Group as a Law Fellow in their Washington, DC headquarters and Amman, Jordan field office.

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.