Congrats to SLS students Nisha Kashyap (JD ‘15) and Stacy Villalobos (JD ‘15), who on December 11th were each awarded a fellowship with the Skadden Fellowship Foundation!  Now in its 26th year, this highly competitive program funds a total of 28 elite law school graduates and law clerks to work for nonprofit organizations in the public interest. Eight of the 2015 fellows are from California, and Nisha and Stacy are among them.

Nisha – an alum of both the Youth and Education Law Project and the Community Law Clinic – will join The Alliance for Children’s Rights in Los Angeles, where she will work with the L.A. Opportunity Youth Collaborative to dismantle the common barriers to educational attainment that transition-age foster youth encounter, using direct services, stakeholder training, and state and local policy advocacy.

Stacy’s fellowship will take place at The Legal Aid Society’s Employment Law Center in San Francisco, which focuses on direct representation to low-wage, immigrant women workers in Fresno, California. The Center uses community education, impact litigation and advocacy to expand and protect clients’ rights, capitalizing on recently passed state laws to strengthen worker protections. Stacy is an alum of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and is continuing her work in the Advanced Clinic in the Winter quarter   ◊