PILF congratulates the following participants in its Summer Fellowship Program.
2023
Brandan Parks
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) (Philadelphia, PA District Office)
Alexandra Johnson
The Innocence Project (New York, NY)
Bri Maikisch
State of New Jersey Office of the Public Defender (Ocean County, NJ)
2022
Ellen Chandler
Federal Public Defender’s Office for the Western District of New York (Rochester, NY)
Hannah Chapple
Dever City Attorney’s Office (Denver, CO)
Morgan Erickson
Committee for Public Counsel Services Innocence Program (Boston, MA)
Ava McCartin
Rhode Island Public Defender (Providence, RI)
2021
Michelle Miles
Office of the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City Special Victims Unit SVU Circuit Court (Baltimore, MD) & Honorable Judge Suzanne H. Adams of the New York Supreme Court Civil Division (New York, NY)
Kaitlin Briggs
ACLU SoCal’s LGBTQ, Gender, and Reproductive Justice Project (Los Angeles, CA)
Grace Ward
Ascend Justice (Chicago, IL)
Halle Finegold
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Legal Extern (Washington, D.C. Field Office)
2020
Alexis Castillo
Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center (El Paso, TX)
Elizabeth Patterson
City of Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations (Pittsburgh, PA)
Graham Ball
Prisoners’ Rights Projects of the Legal Aid Society of NYC (New York, NY)
Micaela Hyams
Governor’s Office of General Counsel (Harrisburg, PA)
Rebecca Heisner
Department of Veteran Affairs, Office of General Counsel, Court of Appeals Litigation Group (Washington, D.C.)
2019
Shanjida Chowdhury
Urban Justice Center – Sex Workers’ Project (New York, NY)
Amber Bynum
Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (Washington, D.C.)
2018
Julia Ammerman
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (Cambridge, MA)
Mitchell Andjeski
Centre County Public Defenders Office (State College, PA)
Meredith Bestland
Office of the Public Defender – Baltimore City (Baltimore, MD)
Robert Gross
New Jersey Office of the Attorney General (Trenton, NJ)
Zac Higham
New Hampshire Legal Assistance (Portsmouth, NH)
Richardson Jean
Legal Services of Greater Miami (Miami, FL)
Mackenzie Koppenhofer
Metropolitan Public Defenders Office (Portland, OR)
Vanessa Miller
The NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law (Washington, D.C.)
David Reimel
Colorado Springs Public Defenders Office (Colorado Springs, CO)
2017
Kylee Reynolds
Lambda Legal (New York, NY)
Thorsten Swider
Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (Pittsburgh, PA)
Kathleen Tierney
Network for Victim Recovery of D.C. (Washington, D.C.)
Olivia Thompson
East Bay Community Law Center (Berkeley, CA)
Meir Edir
The Legal Aid Society (Staten Island, NY)
Casey Millburg
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) (Washington, D.C.)
Sidney McCoy
Legal Services of Northern Virginia (LSNV) (Fairfax, VA)
Patrick Opran
Harvard Legal Aid Bureau (HLAB) (Cambridge, MA)
Catherine Guichardo
Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) (Philadelphia, PA)