Equal Justice Works Fellowships
Shay Fluharty
Shay, a 2010 graduate of the University of California, Davis, School of Law, is currently completing her fellowship with Catholic Charities in New York on a project which aims to expand and improve the quality of representation of detained unaccompanied immigrant children by creating a legal orientation curriculum and an Internet-based lawyer toolkit with specific strategies for serving this population.
Rachael Gardiner
Rachael, a 2009 graduate of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, currently works with Legal Services for Children in San Francisco on a project to provide direct representation, outreach and policy advocacy to improve access for youth in out-of-home care to the public benefits to which they are entitled, filling a critical gap of unmet needs within this population.
Randi Levine
Randi, a 2008 graduate of New York University School of Law, is completing the second year of her fellowship and is working with the Advocates for Children of New York on a project to provide direct representation, outreach and policy advocacy to improve access to early intervention and education for low-income children, up to the age of six, at risk of academic difficulties in New York City.
Lia Monahon
Lia, a 2004 graduate of Northwestern University School of Law, pursued her fellowship with the Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts, one of McDermott’s principal Kids First referral agencies, on a project to determine if the trial of juvenile offenders as adults and subsequent long-term sentencing without parole comply with rulings by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Lori Turner
Lori, a 2006 graduate of Ohio State University Law School, pursued her fellowship in Chicago with the Roger Baldwin Foundation of the ACLU of Illinois. Lori worked with the 15,000-child foster care community in Illinois, which is largely concentrated in Chicago, to assess and develop structures to provide foster children with the educational services and resources to which they are entitled.
Kimberley Baker
Kimberley, a 2005 graduate of the University of Southern California School of Law, pursued her fellowship with Protection & Advocacy, Inc. in Los Angeles, working on behalf of the special education needs of disabled children living in the poor communities of Los Angeles.
Yael Zakai
Yael, a 2005 graduate of Stanford Law School, pursued her fellowship with the Children’s Law Center in Washington, D.C., as part of its Access Health project with the Children’s Hospital of the District of Columbia.