Public Service Venture Fund

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.

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.

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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.