Toll Public Interest Fellow Will Fairhurst L’22 advocated for affordable housing in New Jersey.
At Greater Boston Legal Services, Sarah Perlman L’22 worked to ensure older adults retained access to financial resources and legal services supporting their economic independence.
A fierce advocate for people impacted by incarceration, Sadye Stern L’22 worked on parole justice with Amistad Law Project.
Three LLM Post-Graduate Public Interest Fellows advance careers dedicated to public interest in an international arena.
This year, 18 Penn Carey Law alumni launch dynamic public interest careers through post-graduate fellowships.
United by an ethos of service, Penn Carey Law’s public interest community cuts across sectors and legal specialties to effect positive change.
Penn Carey Law graduates and alums have secured several highly competitive public interest fellowships, empowering them to launch dynamic careers advocating for justice across the country.
Three LLM graduates are among those in the Class of 2022 who have secured public interest fellowships.
Equal Justice Works Fellow Marissa Schwartz L’22 will advocate for survivors of domestic violence in Philadelphia.
Equal Justice Works Fellow Corina Scott L’22 will advocate for the rights of incarcerated domestic violence survivors eligible for re-sentencing or a new trial in New York.
Catherine Kearney C’12, L’22 has been named a 2022 Law School Partnership Project Fellow with Gideon’s Promise.
“The Power of Penn Law” campaign is the Law School’s most successful fundraising and engagement effort to date.
Jesse McGleughlin L’20 is the recipient of Toll Public Interest Fellowship and works at the Southern Center for Human Rights.
Romm is a Catalyst Fellow at Reprieve U.S.
Jones is a Catalyst Fellow at the Environmental Defense Center.
Kyle was a Catalyst Fellow with the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN) and has transitioned to a position as Staff Attorney.
After college, Lauren worked as a paralegal at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, which inspired her to attend law school.
Zhang’s own experience of attempting to obtain lactation accommodations to take the bar exam helped inspire her career path.
Noor Irshaidat L’23 interned with both Lockton Re and with P.R.I.M.E. Finance in The Hague, the latter through the Global Justice Fellowship.
In May 2021, DiVasto was announced as one of 77 law school graduates selected to serve as an Equal Justice Works Fellow in the 2021 Fellowship class.
For Rekha Nair L’12, standing alongside a person as they navigate the American immigration system offers something powerful: unity in a world of separation.
The fellows’ work will be supported by several organizations including Equal Justice Works; Independence Foundation; Langer, Grogan, and Diver Foundation in Social Justice; Skadden Foundation; Toll Foundation; and the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.
The work of Hugh Fitzgibbon LLM’21 and Meri Baghdasaryan LLM’21 is supported by the Law School’s LLM Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowship.
Jarron McAllister L’20 is a Penn Catalyst Fellow at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice (NCLEJ).
Upon graduation, eighteen 2021 graduates will pursue important and diverse public interest work with the support of prestigious fellowship funding.
Haley Pritchard L’20 is a Langer, Grogan, & Diver Legal Fellow with the Pennsylvania ACLU.
Sadé Stevens L’23 is interning with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Sabrina Merold L’20 is a Penn Law Public Interest Fellow with the Federal Policy and Advocacy Team at the Center for Reproductive Rights.
Daniel Lewis L’20 is the recipient of a University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Catalyst Fellowship and is working at Bet Tzedek Legal Services in Los Angeles.
Allison Perlin L’20 works at Human Rights First, where she works to better serve clients in grave need of immigration representation.
Mira Baylson L’08 built a strong foundation of pro bono service during her time at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where she worked on prisoner education and reproductive rights student pro bono projects.
Soojin Jeong L’23 will work for the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and William Weber L’23 will work with the DOJ’s Antitrust Division.
The Cozen Family Voting Rights Fellowship will provide two years of funding for a graduate working to advance and protect voting rights.
The University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School’s CTIC Public Interest Fellowships are open to 1L and 2L students.
Erik Nickels L’21 has been awarded a prestigious Skadden Fellowship and will work with Mental Health Advocacy Services in Los Angeles.
Sadye Stern L’22 has been awarded a Peggy Browning Fellowship to support her summer internship with Justice at Work in Philadelphia.
As a Catalyst Fellow, Sabrina Ruchelli L’19 is working as a Law and Policy Analyst with the Policy Surveillance Program at Center for Public Health Law Research, which is based at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law.
Michael Joseph L’19 works with the Juvenile Law Center advocating on behalf of young people ensnared in the criminal justice system.
Selected from 375 applicants, Jeffrey Simon L’22 is one of 20 law students who will serve in the 2020 class of the Equal Justice Works Immigration Summer Legal Corps.
A historic number of University of Pennsylvania Carey Law school JD and LLM grads to launch public interest careers to serve communities in need.
Giwa-Ojuri was selected as a recipient of the EJW Fellowship from a pool of over 430 applicants.
The panel presentation, part of Public Interest Week programming, explored how the policy emerged over time and connects to longstanding inequalities in the family immigration system.
Margaret Zhang L’15 works as a legal fellow at the Women’s Law Project advocating for pregnant and breastfeeding women in PA workplaces, schools, and prisons.
Rodney Holcombe L’17 works as a legal fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance in Oakland, California.
Carl Snodgrass L’17 has joined the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program as the Debtors’ Prisons Fellow with the support of a postgraduate fellowship from Penn Law.
Penn Law alumnus George Donnelly L’15 has been awarded a Public Interest Law Fellowship from the Independence Foundation to continue his work with Philadelphia’s Public Interest Law Center representing tenants and developing strong legal protections for the housing rights of low-income Pennsylvanians.
Two Penn Law students, Albert Pak L’18 and Jayme Wiebold L’18, have been awarded Skadden Fellowships to pursue work in the public interest. These highly competitive postgraduate fellowships fund two years of work providing legal services to the poor, the elderly, the homeless, the disabled, and those deprived of their civil or human rights.
Six Penn Law graduates and alumni are hitting the ground running in their public interest careers with the help of postgraduate fellowships from Penn Law.
Five Penn Law graduates and alumni were awarded prestigious national fellowships to pursue a diverse array of public interest projects.
Three Penn Law graduates, Elizabeth Frawley L’15, Daniel Lambright L’15, and Katharine Schulman L’15, began their careers in the public sector this year with the support of Penn Law’s Catalyst Fellowships.
Two Penn Law students and one recent graduate were recently awarded prestigious Skadden Fellowships, and a Penn Law student was also selected for the highly coveted Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellowship from the American Civil Liberties Union in New York.