Centro de los Derechos del Migrante
Baltimore, MD
Isabelle Holt will spend her fellowship year at Centro de los Derechos del Migrante (CDM), a transnational immigrant workers’ rights non-profit. At CDM, Isabelle will represent women migrant workers who have experienced gender-based discrimination and harassment while working on temporary visas in the United States through administrative complaints, Title VII litigation, and policy advocacy.
After graduating from HLS, Isabelle clerked for the Honorable James P. Bassett on the New Hampshire Supreme Court, where she worked on a wide range of appellate matters.
While at HLS, Isabelle participated in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee and International Human Rights Clinics where she represented asylum seekers and co-authored a report on gender and water inequality in Delhi, India. Isabelle was a student editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties and Environmental Law Reviews, a Program Fellow for the Law and Social Change Program, and a member of Harvard Graduate Students Union (UAW) and the Labor and Employment Action Project. During her time in law school, Isabelle represented immigrant and low-wage workers through the Employment Unit of Greater Boston Legal Services and was a Summer Associate at a labor law firm in Oakland, California.
Isabelle graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University, in 2017 with a B.A in evolutionary biology. Prior to law school, Isabelle worked as a research scientist in an ocean science lab, as a science and outdoor leadership educator at a small, off-the-grid, non-profit on an island 12 miles off the coast of mid- coast Maine, and in a variety of family-owned restaurants. Isabelle is from Watertown Massachusetts and comes from a family of union workers and labor and environmental rights organizers.