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| Kimberly Kaufman: This summer I will be working with the International Institute of the East Bay, an Oakland community-based organization that provides low-cost immigration legal services to low-income immigrants in the East Bay. I will be working on affirmative petitions under the Violence Against Women Act and U (Crime Victim) Visa interim relief. I will be gathering pertinent facts and documents from clients, drafting affidavits, and assisting in bi-weekly free immigration clinics. |
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Alexis Kent: This summer I will serve as a certified law clerk for the San Mateo County District Attorney. I will perform legal research and writing tasks and will appear in court to argue motions. My work with the District Attorney's office will allow me to serve the public interest through my commitment to public safety, victim assistance, and fair and just treatment of criminal defendants. |
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After internships at the Alameda Public Defender's Office and the criminal division of the Superior Court of San Francisco, Jonathan Ma (2L) will work this summer at the California Attorney General's Office. In the Appeals, Writs and Trials Section, he will draft Respondent's Briefs for the People of California in appeals from felony convictions. Beyond researching criminal law and procedure issues, Jonathan may also have the opportunity argue before the California Court of Appeal as a certified law student. |
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Meredith Marzuoli: will be spending her 2008 summer at the Alameda County Public Defender's Office in Oakland, CA. Meredith has a background in social services and mental health advocacy, and has been committed to indigent criminal defense ever since last summer, which she spent doing death penalty work in Mississippi through USF's Keta Taylor Colby Death Penalty Project. Her work this summer will consist of a combination of research, writing, and arguing motions in the Alameda County court system on behalf of indigent clients. |
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Kevin Christopher: will be working at the Office of the State Public Defender assisting in research for one of the Bay Area's three post-conviction capital appellate agencies. |
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Bianca Napoleon-Ally: will intern with Legal Services for Children, an organization that provides free legal representation to children and youth living in San Francisco. She will conduct client interviews for cases dealing with dependency, immigration, and school discipline. Additionally, she will assist attorneys in representing clients by drafting declarations as well as researching various legal issues affecting children. |
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Sam O'Keefe: This summer I will be working at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office in the Felony Unit. The Public Defender is committed to vigorously and creatively defending indigent clients. I will be writing and arguing motions, conducting investigations, meeting with clients, and assisting my supervising attorney at preliminary hearings and trials. |
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Yolanda Peneda: I will be interning with Legal Aid of Marin providing free legal assistance to low income residents and older adults of Marin County in the areas of housing rights, employment law, bankruptcy, child dependency and domestic violence. I will conduct intake interview services, case follow-up and attend community meetings. |
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Chris Pollock: I will be interning with Prisoner Legal Services, a legal advocacy arm of the San Francisco Sheriff's Office, that provides information and assistance to inmates housed in San Francisco County jails. The program combats recidivism by helping inmates through drug treatment, counseling, literacy classes, education, job skill development and problem solving and self-reliance techniques. Interns interview inmates, observe jail operations, conduct law libraries and training programs, respond to inmate requests, and investigate problems. |
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Marisa Soghoian: will be working at the Alameda County Public Defender's Office this summer. I am looking forward to learning about the way the office serves this large and varied county. I hope to get the chance to work with cases from different parts of Alameda or at least visit the many different office locations. I continue to be inspired and motivated to approach criminal matters by delivering direct services to those people accused of crimes and to learn about the often complex factors involved in a given case. I plan to develop my research and writing skills especially in criminal areas that I have not explored yet and to familiarize myself with sentencing guidelines in Alameda County. |
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Amanda Solter: California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) is an organization dedicated to protecting the rights of migrant workers and California's rural farm communities. CRLA uses a combination of direct services, impact litigation, and lobbying in order to affect the harsh reality of discrimination experienced by California's rural poor. I will be working directly with this community in Santa Rosa, CRLA's branch office for Sonoma County. I will assist CRLA attorneys by performing client intake, legal research and writing, as well as representing clients in hearings. The majority of the issues dealt with by the Santa Rosa office focus on labor and employment as well as landlord/tenant disputes. |
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Ellie Stone (1L): will spend the summer working with the Homeless Action Center serving the homeless, disabled, and disadvantaged of Alameda County. The organization seeks to connect clients with housing, legal, and healthcare programs and services within the community, state, and national social security and public health and welfare infrastructure. |
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Andrew Younkins: I will be externing in the Office of the Staff Attorney of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco. As an extern, I will be reviewing appeals from habeus corpus petitions, sentencing issues, and Title VII suits, and advising the Circuit judges on how the case should be disposed through oral presentation and bench memos. This is essentially the same work the Staff Attorneys do, and aids the public interest by helping to clear the Court's long backlog of appeals. |
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Jayme Burns: This summer I'll be working as a legal intern at Justice Now, a public interest, non-profit that provides direct legal services to people in California's women's prisons and organizes the community to combat human rights abuses in California prisons. Justice Now provides direct legal services for people in prison in the following areas: compassionate release, sentence modification and mitigation, defense of parental rights, lifer parole suitability and healthcare access. |
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Elena Dineen: California Rural Legal Assistance is an organization that protects the rights of migrant workers and California's rural farm communities. CRLA uses public policy, direct legal services, and litigation to affect change. I will be working in CRLA's central San Francisco office assisting the litigation department file lawsuits aimed at protecting victims of discrimination and exploitation in rural California. |
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As a certified law student, Felicia Espinosa (2L) will work with the Alameda County Public Defender for the civil rights of people facing criminal charges. She will spend time arguing motions, writing memos and interviewing clients. |
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Jim Folger: I will be interning with the San Francisco City Attorney's Office on the Public Utilities Team. The City Attorney's Office provides legal services to the Mayor, Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Unified School District and the 94 departments, boards, commissions and offices of the City and County of San Francisco. The Public Utilities Team specifically provides legal services to the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission. |
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Brahmani Houston will be interning at the Community Law Center, a research and advocacy center based in Cape Town, South Africa, that focuses on areas critical to the realization of human rights and democracy. Brahmani will be working specifically with the Civil Society and Prison Reform Initiative, which focuses on research-based lobbying and advocacy and collaboration with civil society structures to prevent torture, establish humane conditions in South African prisons, reduce overcrowding and improve prisoner reintegration services. |
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Sue Jost: This summer I will be working with the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR), a joint project of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas and the American Immigration Lawyers Association. ProBAR, located near the Mexican border in Harlingen, Texas, is non-profit organization which provides pro bono legal services to asylum seekers detained by the United States government.
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Aliya Karmali: Asylum Access makes refugee rights a reality by providing on-the-ground legal counsel and representation for refugees in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and by advocating for refugee rights worldwide. Aliya Karmali will be a Volunteer Legal Advocate in our Quito, Ecuador office in the summer of 2008. Along with other U.S. and Ecuadorian law students and legal workers, she will be responsible for interviewing Colombian refugees in Spanish to obtain their declarations in support of their petitions for permanent refugee status in Ecuador. |
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Natasha Suelflow: I am excited to be working full time at the Office of the Public Defender in San Francisco this summer. As my background is in immigration law, I look forward to doing client-based advocacy under the supervision of a staff attorney. This will include assisting with trial preparation, interviewing clients and witnesses, research and writing, and some investigation. I also hope to gain a more clear perspective of how to best advocate for communities disproportionately affected by the criminal justice system through exploration of the Office's many programs focusing on reentry into the community, families of incarcerated people, and youth. |
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Laure Vocke: Bay Area Legal Aid provides legal assistance to low income clients for a variety of legal issues including getting SSI and disability benefits, getting health care, and escaping domestic violence, just to name a few. I will be working in the family law department as a law clerk and in the fall will have the opportunity to accompany the clients to court. I will be gaining legal and professional experience and in the process will be benefiting the San Francisco community. |
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Krista Henneman: I am working for the Office of the San Francisco Public Defender. The PD's mission is to protect and defend the rights of indigent clients through effective, vigorous, compassionate, and creative legal advocacy. I will work directly with a public defender in the Domestic Violence Department for ten weeks, assisting with jury selection, writing motions, and communicating with clients. |
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Jose Camilo Artiga-Purcell: I will work for La Raza Centro Legal in the senior law department this summer. I will give weekly clinics in Spanish to inform primarily immigrant Latino seniors of their rights with a focus on social security benefits, consumer rights and immigration. I will conduct research and writing for the Senior Rights Bulletin, assessing cutting edge legal topics of interest to advocates and the community. |
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Christine Brady: I will work in the Marin County Public Defender's Office providing legal assistance to persons who are unable to afford legal counsel. I plan to advocate for alternative sentencing and programs that combat recidivism. |
Supatra Basham :: API Legal Outreach
Fernanda Bustamante :: Center for Gender and Refugee Studies
Jeff Chorney :: Alameda County Public Defender
Cynthia Der :: San Francisco District Attorney's Office
Mandeep Dhaliwal :: Bay Area Legal Aid
Elena Dineen :: Legal Aid of Marin
Colby Freeman :: San Francisco District Attorney's Office
Abbey Glenn :: Dept. of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Stephen Hew :: US Dept. of Labor
Janice Jentz :: Prisoner Legal Services
Susan Jost :: International Institute of the East Bay
Jeffrey Kaloustian :: Bay Area Legal Aid
Aliya Karmali :: Justice Now
Michelle Lee :: Centro de los Derechos del Migrante
Joanna Privratsky :: Alameda County Public Defender
J. Rachel Reyes :: Asylum Access
Abigail Rivamonte :: San Francisco Public Defender
Hannah Seigel :: Alaska Public Defender
Deborah Sheen :: Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County
Marisa Soghoian :: San Francisco Public Defender
Amy Sparks :: Klamath Riverkeeper
David Sutton :: Marin Public Defender
Heather Thurgood :: US EEOC
Andrew Younkins :: San Francisco Public Defender
Laura Zellman :: National Center for Lesbian Rights
Kevin Allen ::Bay Area Legal Aid (Oakland Office)
Carmen Aviles :: Public Advocates
Mike Beuselinck :: Consumer Energy Council of America
Anne Costin :: Law Center for Families
Erika Dahlstrom :: Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse (CORA)
Alma David :: Tibet Justice Center
Cynthia Der :: Bay Area Legal Aid (SF Office)
Ngan Le :: Bay Area Legal Aid (Oakland Office)
Michelle Lee :: Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking (CAST)
Phyra McCandless :: Justice Now
Alejandra Mendez :: Alameda County Public Defender
Amanda Montreuil :: Reprieve UK
Christi Moore :: Alameda County Public Defender
Stanley Radtke :: Alameda County Public Defender
Jesse Raskin :: State Public Defender
Hannah Seigel :: Justice Now
Patrick Swillinger :: U.S. District Court of Northern California
Sean Tilton :: San Francisco Public Defender
Charla Welch :: San Francisco City Attorney, AIDS Legal Referral Panel
Laura Zellman :: Children's Law Center of Los Angeles
Marco Balducci :: Alaska Public Defender Agency
Michael Caves :: US Attorney's Office, Criminal Division
Patricia Fullinwider :: Georgia Justice Project
Amy Goldman :: Texas Civil Rights Project
Kimberly Irish :: Law Students for Choice
Carmen Leon :: La Raza Centro Legal
Cynthia Lucas :: Children's Law Center of Los Angeles
Marina Smerling :: United Students Against Sweatshops - Nicaragua
Stephanie Smith :: Alameda County Public Defender
Allison Stone :: California Rural Legal Assistance
