Class of 2027 2L Mentors
Nathan Abraham
I was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. I studied politics and economics at the University of Virginia, where I discovered my passion for criminal justice reform. I lived and worked in Boston for four years before starting law school, spending time at a consulting firm, a criminal justice non-profit, and finally a legal services start-up. After my 1L year, I am interned in the Criminal Defense Practice of the Legal Aid Society in New York and plan to continue to pursue public defense opportunities in the future. Outside of school, I'm a huge fan of sports and the outdoors! Ask me about: criminal justice reform and public defense.
Suzanne Antoniou
Suzanne grew up in Maryland and received her B.A. in Economics from Brown University. Prior to law school, she worked as an economic consultant as well as a research associate on tax policy. On campus, she serves as an Articles Editor for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and in leadership roles for the Plaintiffs’ Law Association and Older and Wiser Law Students (OWLS). She also volunteers with the Campus Survivors and Domestic Violence Pro Bono Projects and works on immigration policy research. Suzanne spent her 1L summer at Gibbs Mura and the Healthcare Rights and Access section of the California DOJ. She will spend her 2L summer at Hausfeld. Ask me about: plaintiff-side law, state government.
Elijah Armstrong
Elijah studied Education and Public Policy during his undergrad at Penn State and Education Policy and Management in his Masters' program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He founded a nonprofit that gave scholarships to students with disabilities and also worked on Capitol Hill in between his Masters’ program and law school. Ask me about: Disability Rights, Education, Post-Conviction Relief.
Sara Carillo
Sara is from Los Angeles, California. She graduated from Stanford University in 2020. Before law school, Sara worked as a farmer in Mendocino County, California for four years. At Stanford, she is a Member Editor of the Stanford Law Review and is involved with the National Lawyers Guild and OutLaw. She spent her 1L summer at the Legal Services of Northern California - Ukiah doing rural legal aid. Ask me about: direct service work!
Dayle Chung
Dayle is from New York, NY. She graduated from Yale College where she majored in U.S. History. Before law school, she worked as a paralegal at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on a range of cases involving criminal justice, voting rights, and education. She is an Articles Editor for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, a Member Editor of the Stanford Law Review, Co-Director of the Workers' Rights Pro Bono Project, and a Bremond-Wilson Sonsini Fellow at the Stanford Center for Racial Justice. She spent her 1L summer at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Ask me about: civil rights.
Mary Fetter
Mary is a 2L from Palo Alto, California. She graduated with a CS/physics degree from Stanford in 2023 and lived in Seattle for a year (talk to her about how much she loves the west coast!). She is interested in defending constitutional rights, especially for First and Fourth Amendment issues. She worked at the Institute for Justice in DC during her 1L summer. Ask me about: Tech law, First Amendment law, government accountability, criminal law (plus running trails near campus!).
Will Frankel
Will is from Cleveland, Ohio and studied Public Policy at Claremont McKenna College for his Bachelor's. He wrote his senior thesis about the intersection of antitrust law and digital privacy. Before law school, he worked for three years at Quizlet, focusing on AI safety, content moderation, and user privacy, and in his free time, he served as a Volunteer Lead at SF YIMBY, advocating for abundant housing in San Francisco. Ask me about: land use policy, digital rights.
Raj Karan Gambhir
Raj is a 2L from Orange County, CA interested in data privacy and civil liberties. He plans to work in data privacy law enforcement or plaintiff-side data privacy law following graduation. Raj is happy to talk to any 1L's about their interests in PI, the law, or life more generally! Ask me about: data privacy law, immigration advocacy, ACS.
Micaela Gerwin
Mikaela is a 2L from New York City. She is pursuing a joint master’s degree in history with her law degree. Mikaela graduated from Princeton University and a master's at Cambridge University, and worked for four years before law school on political campaigns and the in the federal government with roles at the White House (the Domestic Policy Council), the Department of the Treasury (the IRS), and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Mikaela spent her 1L summer between the New Jersey Attorney General's Department of Civil Rights and City Bar Justice Center's Federal Pro Se Legal Assistance Project in the Southern District of New York. In her free time, Mikaela loves running, swimming, yoga, baking, and Broadway shows. Ask me about: immigration law, legal history.
Thomas Hassen
Thomas grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada, and attended the University of Nevada, Reno, where he studied political science and criminal justice before completing a master's degree in human rights at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to law school, Thomas worked in policy, community organizing, and direct social services, supporting low-income workers, tenants, and individuals experiencing homelessness. At SLS, Thomas serves as Co-Director of the Workers' Rights Pro Bono Project, Co-President of the Black Law Students Association, and as a Member Editor on the Stanford Law Review and Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. He split his 1L summer as a Diversity Fellow with Gibbs Mura, an Oakland-based private public interest law firm, and as an intern with the California Attorney General's Civil Rights Enforcement Section. Ask me about: civil rights, labor, poverty law, and appellate litigation.
Ned Herrington
Ned Herrington is a second-year law student at Stanford. He is currently the Editor in Chief of the Stanford Law and Policy Review and a Civil Justice Fellow at the Rhode Center on the Legal Profession. Ned spent his 1L summer working at the Institute for Justice on their Zoning Justice Project. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and prior to law school worked building homeless shelters across the country. Ask me about: housing impact litigation.
Ayo Idowu
Ayo Idowu is a 2L at Stanford Law School. Originally from Chicago, she attended the University of Chicago, where she first developed her passion for anti-carceral work. At UChicago, Ayo collaborated with survivors of police torture through the Human Rights Lab and advocated for cultural studies and racial justice as a leader in the African Caribbean Students Association and UChicago United. After graduating in 2020, Ayo spent four years as a paralegal with the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program and Criminal Law Reform Project. There, she assisted on cases addressing police violence and racial discrimination, and co-authored a harm reduction guide on electronic monitoring. At Stanford, Ayo has continued her commitment to anti-carceral advocacy. She currently serves as co-president of the Criminal Law Society and as a board member of the Black Law Students Association. Ask me about: civil rights work and anti-carceral advocacy on campus.
Isabella Jackson-Saitz
Isabella grew up in Newton, Massachusetts and studied medieval history at the University of Chicago. Before law school, she worked as a paralegal for the federal government. After seeing the promise and the shortcomings of civil rights litigation, she came to law school to become an advocate for equal rights and justice. At SLS, she co-leads the Housing Pro Bono and Election Law Projects, as well as serving as one of the presidents of the Plaintiffs' Law Association. She aspires to block off time outside of school to do more of what she loves (despairing over the Red Sox, dancing, reading, and logging movies on Letterboxd). Ask me about: plaintiffs' law, civil rights work, housing law.
Lucia Jiang
Lucia is from Rockville, MD and graduated from the University of Southern California in 2022 with a degree in Intelligence and Cyber Operations. Prior to law school, she worked as a cybersecurity engineer. She spent her 1L summer with Goethals & Stone, helping with plaintiff-side civil litigation and criminal defense matters. At SLS, she is co-President of the American Constitution Society, co-lead for the Paul Lomio Veterans Legal Assistance Program, and a research assistant for Prof. Kerr. Ask me about: criminal procedure or cybersecurity.
Andrea Jimenez Flores
Andrea was born in Mexico and raised in Utah. She graduated from the University of Utah in 2021 with majors in communication, sociology, and political science. Before law school, Andrea led the COVID-19 Rapid Response Program at Comunidades Unidas, served as a CHCI Public Policy Fellow for Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, and worked as the Immigrants’ Rights Policy Analyst at the ACLU of Utah. At SLS, she is Co-President of SLLSA, a Public Interest Chair of FLI, a Senior Editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and a Co-Director of the Workers’ Rights Pro Bono Project. Additionally, she works as a research assistant for Professor Lucas Guttentag’s Immigration Policy Tracking Project. Andrea spent her 1L summer at MALDEF in Chicago, Illinois, doing work on immigrants’ rights, racial justice, and education. In her free time, Andrea loves spending time with her German Shepherd Superman and loved ones, hitting the gym, soaking up the sun and touching grass, reading fiction, rotting her brain with reality TV (big Love Island fan), and singing. Ask me about: civil rights, immigrants' rights, and nonprofit work.
Yana Kalmyka
Yana is a 2L, a labor organizer, a first generation college & law student, and the proud daughter of working-class immigrants from Belarus. At SLS, Yana helps lead the Workers’ Rights Pro Bono, the Stanford National Lawyers’ Guild chapter, and the Stanford Prison Abolition and Resources Coalition. She also serves as a Student Representative on the NLG’s national Labor & Employment Steering Committee. Before law school, Yana led student-labor solidarity work in college and supported low-wage worker unionization efforts as a full time organizer. After earning a B.S. in Labor Relations from Cornell, Yana supported union campaigns in the food service, warehousing, and construction sectors, and helped workers across the country develop campaigns with intersectional demands for workers' rights and climate justice. Yana spent her 1L summer working at a union-side labor and employment law firm in the Bay Area. Ask me about: movement lawyering, union organizing, labor law and workers' rights, environmental justice.
Zachary Kimmel
Zachary Kimmel (He/Him) is a 2L at Stanford Law School, where he serves as a Member Editor of the Stanford Law Review and a Student Note Editor for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. Last summer, he worked at the ACLU on First Amendment and church-state separation cases. Before law school, he held roles at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the Department of Justice, and the DNC. He graduated from Columbia with a bachelor’s degree in history and is originally from Brooklyn, NY. Ask me about: civil rights litigation, constitutional law, and legal history!
Nicolas Lama
I'm Nicolas! I'm pursuing a joint JD/MS degree in the E-IPER program at the Doerr School, and I'm interested in a career in environmental, energy, and ocean law. Next year, I'm serving as the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, the co-president of Environmental Law Society (ELS), and the co-president of Ocean Law at Stanford (OLAS). I'm spending my 1L summer in DC working for the NRDC's litigation team. I'm originally from south Florida and love to go hiking, surfing, and running. Ask me about: environmental law.
Qingfeng Li
I'm a 2L with an interest in criminal law and immigration law. I spent the summer at the Cal AG's office, and now I'm hoping to try out more direct services & impact litigation work. Ask me about: state AG's office, criminal law.
Rachel Li
Rachel has lived in Mississippi, Maryland, Ohio, and now Texas, and she graduated from Georgetown University in 2024 with degrees in Government and History and a minor in English. On campus, she's involved in the Christian Legal Fellowship, the Asian and Pacific Islander Law Students Association, the Plaintiffs' Lawyers Association, and Youth and Education Advocates, and she's also completing a joint JD/MA in Education at Stanford. During her 1L summer, Rachel interned at the Legal Aid Society on their Education Law Project. In her free time, Rachel loves watching Ravens and Ohio State football and Orioles baseball, playing piano, and going on runs and bike rides around campus. Ask me about: education law, direct services, plaintiff's law, dual degrees.
Sierra Maciorowski
Sierra is from Santa Rosa, California, and graduated in 2020 from Stanford University, where she double-majored in Human Biology and English. She spent two years in Sacramento, CA before law school as an Executive Fellow and staff at the California Air Resources Board, working on environmental justice, community air protection, and climate investments policy. At SLS, Sierra co-leads the TGI Pro Bono Project and the SSDP Pro Bono Project and is a Submissions Editor and Lead Article Editor for the Stanford Environmental Law Journal. She also serves as a co-president of the Disability and Mental Health Network of Students and is involved with the National Lawyers Guild and Stanford Immigration and Human Rights Law Association (among other orgs!). Sierra spent her 1L summer researching participatory budgeting processes and refinery soil pollution at Communities for a Better Environment in Richmond, CA as a Partnerships for Climate Justice in the Bay Fellow. In her rare free time, she enjoys baking and cooking for friends, seeking peace among the redwoods, and engaging with sci-fi/fantasy media. Ask me about: environmental justice, movement lawyering, and disability at SLS!
Anna McGuire
Anna is a 2L from Cabin John, Maryland interested in the intersections between criminal justice and tech policy. Prior to SLS, Anna worked as a legal assistant at a litigation boutique and as a bartender. During her 1L summer, she worked as a law clerk for the House Judiciary Committee Democrats. Anna holds an MSc in Criminal Justice Policy from the London School of Economics and a BA from Davidson College. In her free time, Anna loves going to concerts and trying new NYT Cooking recipes. Ask me about: overlap between legal and policy work!
Robert Moser
I served in the US Army then did a year of Master's in Public Policy before coming to law school. I am interested in human rights, justice, and the environment. Ask me about: finding your purpose, even if that purpose isn't being a lawyer.
Madeline Noh
Madeline received a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Public Health from Brown University. Prior to law school, she worked in public health. She supported research on health inequities in relation to racial and gender justice, overdose prevention, and the criminal legal system’s impact on health. As a law student, she hopes to pursue a career advocating for civil rights and liberties. During her 1L summer, she interned at a civil rights litigation and criminal defense firm focused on police accountability, incarcerated people’s rights, wrongful conviction, and constitutional protections. Ask me about: civil rights litigation, plaintiff’s law, criminal legal reform, interdisciplinary research.
Mohamed Nur
Mohamed is a 2L at Stanford Law School from Portland, Maine. A long-time community organizer and facilitator, Mohamed is passionate about working at the intersection of racial equity, social impact, and policy advocacy to serve vulnerable people. His academic interests include democracy reform, movement organizing, transitional justice, and civil rights enforcement. Before attending law school, Mohamed worked in various nonprofit and public-interest settings, including community organizing hubs, statehouses, and venture philanthropy, addressing a range of public policy issues. He graduated from Bowdoin College with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Legal Studies, as well as Africana Studies. At SLS, Mohamed co-leads the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, the Clean Slate Pro Bono Project, the Muslim Law Students Association, and the Black Law Students Association. He spent his 1L summer at the Brennan Center for Justice in New York working on democracy reform issues. Ask me about: democracy reform, civil rights, movement organizing, transitional justice, immigrant rights, and nonprofits.
Krishna Pathak
Krishna is from the suburbs of Indianapolis, Indiana, and studied public policy at Indiana University. He worked in Washington, D.C. before Stanford on national security and foreign policy, including on the National Security Council staff at the White House, where he advised senior U.S. officials on foreign, economic, and technology policy; directly engaged in bilateral diplomacy with foreign governments; and traveled to support presidential visits around the country and overseas. He previously advised Members of Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives on national security issues. During his 1L summer he worked at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, and on campus, he serves as co-president of the Stanford Law Association. You can usually find him at any Bing Concert Hall event that even remotely involves classical, opera, or jazz. Ask me about… government/public service, your law school experience, life, literally anything!
Michelle Phan
Michelle is a current 2L. She worked as a data scientist before starting law school. Michelle spent her 1L summer at the Federal Public Defender's office for the Northern District of California. At Stanford, she is involved with the Housing Pro Bono project, Clean Slate, and APILSA. Ask me about: public defense, career switching.
Anisha Reddy
Anisha grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina. She graduated from Duke University in 2024 with a degree in Public Policy. At SLS, Anisha helps lead the National Lawyers Guild chapter, the Stanford Immigration and Human Rights Law Association, the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and the Workers' Rights Pro Bono Project. She will be in the Immigrants' Rights Clinic this fall. She spent her 1L summer at Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman and Wasow, a plaintiffs' side employment firm. In her free time, Anisha likes to hike, build legos, teach herself to play the drums, and cheer for the Golden State Valkyries. Ask me about: labor and/or employment law and PPI firms!
Julia (Jules) Rehmann
Jules is from Portland, Oregon and spent her undergrad at the University of Oregon where she was involved with the Prison Education Program and criminal legal system research. Between then and coming to SLS, they worked in the social work branch of a public defense office. At Stanford, Jules is involved with the National Lawyers Guild, Stanford Prison Abolition and Resources Coalition, Prisoner Legal Services pro bono project, and the SIRHLA Action Hub (and the MuSLSical!). She spent her 1L summer at the Oregon Justice Resource Center doing civil rights cases for prisoners and protestors. When not in school or work, Jules spends as much time as possible frolicking outside, baking sweet treats, and goofing around with friends. Ask me about: prisoner’s rights, public defense, prison abolition, holistic defense.
Blessing Roland-Magaji
Hello! My name is Blessing, and I am a rising 2L from Arlington TX. This last summer I worked at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley in their health program. My primary interests are immigration and public interest law generally. At the law school I'm involved in the Immigration and Transgender, Gendervarient, and Intersex Pro Bono projects. I also have been involved in BLSA, the Musical, SHIRLA, SJP, and SPARC. Feel free to ask about any of those things! Ask me about: immigration, health law.
Molly Wancewicz
Molly Wancewicz is a second-year law student at Stanford Law School. She is involved in the Stanford Law Review, Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Association leadership, the Rhode Center Civil Justice Fellowship, and the Workers’ Rights Pro Bono Project. She spent her 1L summer as a Peggy Browning Fellow at Leonard Carder. Prior to law school, Molly spent a year on a Fulbright scholarship in Belgium and two years teaching sixth-grade English. Molly holds a B.A. in History and Political Science from Rice University. Ask me about: labor law, employment law, being FLI at SLS.
About the Public Interest Mentoring Program
The Levin Center offers a formal mentoring program that matches first-year law students to student mentors based on shared practice interests. These small groups might meet for dinner off-campus, coffee on campus, or take a hike to the Dish while they chat about adjusting to law school, the 1L summer job search, or the challenges of securing entry-level public interest jobs. Registration for this program begins in the Fall quarter shortly after 1L Orientation.