Class of 2022 Public Interest Fellows
Sandra Allen Kang
Sandra grew up in Ontario, California. In 2016, she graduated from UCLA with a BA in Human Biology and Society and a minor in Philosophy. After graduating, she spent 3 years working as a paralegal. First, at the U.S. Department of Justice, and second, at the ACLU of Southern California, where she primarily supported litigation efforts for the Immigrants’ Rights team. Sandra spent her 1L summer at the Federal Public Defender’sOffice in San Francisco, conducting trial work, and her 2L summer at the Federal Public Defender’sOffice in Los Angeles, working in the Capital Habeas Unit. Sandra is interested in indigent criminal defense and the intersection between the criminal legal system and immigration law. Her favorite moment in law school was being a part of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic in Spring 2020.
Rico Altman-Merino
Rico grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and majored in History at the University of Chicago. After college, he worked in development at Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. He then moved to New York City where he worked in catering and later at a boutique law firm specializing in esoteric insurance arrangements. He spent his 1L summer doing consumer rights impact litigation work at New York Legal Assistance Group. During his 2L spring he participated in Stanford’s Criminal Defense Clinic, and he hopes to be a public defender. He spent his 2L summer at Appellate Advocates, a criminal defense unit doing a range of post-conviction work in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. Rico is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and wants to Make New York Red Again. He served on the board of National Lawyers Guild at SLSandis currently co-editor-in-chief of Stanford Law & Policy Review. He is a devoted cyclist and loves to cook.
Samuel Becker
Sam was born and raised in Washington State and, after college, was an elementary school teacher in Denver, Colorado, for four years. Although Sam finds the hierarchical, conservative, and political nature of the law to be outdated and often hypocritical, they have relished the opportunity to once again learn and question from the perspective of a student. Since beginning law school, Sam has interned with Legal Aid at Work’s National Origin & Immigrants’ Rights and Racial Economic Justice Programs; the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project’s Detention & Deportation Defense Unit; and the Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center’s Immigration Detention Accountability Project. At Stanford, Sam has participated in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic and researched for Professor Guttentag’s Immigration Policy Tracking Project. They have also served as Co-Leader of the Immigration Pro Bono Project; Co-Leader of the Native Law Pro Bono Project; Co-President of Stanford Advocates for Immigrants’ Rights; Member of the Racial and Disability Justice Pro Bono Project; Advocacy Chair and Treasurer for the Disability and Mental Health Network at Stanford; non-Native Treasurer for the Native American Law Students Association; Public Interest Mentor for the Levin Center; and Member of OutLaw’s Political Action Committee. More importantly, Sam loves trees, their two cats Luna and Lynx, young adult fiction, and water. After graduating, Sam will clerk on the Colorado Supreme Court for the Honorable Monica M. Márquez, and on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit for the Honorable Ronald M. Gould.
Gabriel Beringer
Gabriel grew up in Whittier and Murrieta, California.At UC Irvine, Gabriel double majored in Psychology and Social Behavior & Criminology, Law, and Society. After graduating, Gabriel began a joint J.D./Ph.D. in theJurisprudence and Social Policy program at UC Berkeley Law. Gabriel’s research interests center on the intersection between racialized legal ideologies, anti-racist activism, and 19th-century philosophy. Gabriel worked with the Orleans Public Defender’s office in the Summer of 2020 and would be glad to speak with anyone interested in a career in public defense, academia, or criminal justice reform.
Jody Bianchini
Jody grew up outside Chicago. She graduated from Northwestern University in 2014 with a degree in Social Policy. After college, she joined Teach for America: Milwaukee and spent the next five years as an early childhood educator. Jody is passionate about educational equity. She spent her 1L summer as a legal clerk for the National Center for Youth Law on their juvenile justice litigation team. During her 2L summer, Jody interned with the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights-- SF Office. At SLS, Jody is a co-leader for the Community Health Access Project (CHAP) pro bono, and she has served as the Community Partnerships Chair for Youth and Education Advocates, and a member of the SLA Mental Health and Wellness Committee.
Rachel Bowanko
Rachel grew up in Washington, DC. She received her B.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont. At Stanford, Rachel is co-President of the Stanford Law Association, a member editor of the Stanford Law Review, an executive editor of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, and a board member of the Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Association. She spent her 1L summer working for a plaintiffs’ firm based in Seattle and is excited to participate in the Environmental Law Clinic during her 2L spring. In her free time, Rachel enjoys hiking, cooking, going to the farmers market, and spending as much time as possible outside.
Grace Ann Brew
Grace Ann grew up in Potomac, MD. She graduated from Pomona College, where she doubled-majored in English and Classics. Before law school, she worked at a public relations firm in Washington, D.C, where she worked on a variety of advocacy campaigns.At Stanford, Grace Ann is a member editor of Stanford Law Review and managing editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. She is also on the board of the Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Association. Grace Ann has done pro bono work with Legal Aid at Work, ACLU, and UNITE HERE Local 11. She spent her 1L summer interning for the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office in their Civil Litigation Branch and Consumer & Workplace Protection Unit. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, yoga, and watching television.
Rhiannon Bronstein
Rhiannon grew up in Seattle, Washington and attended Yale University. Before law school, she worked in youth social services, outdoor education, and political organizing. At Stanford, she has been involved with the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, the Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Workers’ Rights Pro Bono Project, Moot Court, the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation, and Older Wiser Law Students. She spent her 1L summer with the Juvenile Unit of the San Francisco Public Defender and her 2L summer with the Alaska Public Defender. After graduating, Rhiannon will clerk on the Ninth Circuit for the Honorable Sidney Thomas. Until then, you can find her in the mountains or tending her small backyard garden in East Palo Alto.
Isabella (Bella) Castrodale
Bella grew up in Southern California and attended college at UC Berkeley (go bears), where she graduated with a BA in Rhetoric. During college, Bella ran the comedy department of the school programming board, did worked in environmental litigation at the SF office for the NRDC. At SLS, Bella led the Tax Pro Bono Project, and worked as a submissions editor for the Stanford Journal of International Law. She spent her 1L summer with the San Francisco regional office of the Securities and Exchange Commission. During her 2L year, Bella externed with the Northwest regional office of the Federal Trade Commission. Her 2L summer, she worked as a law clerk with the DOJ Environment and Natural Resources Division in the Law & Policy Section. After graduation, Bella hopes to work in financial or environmental regulation in California. In her free time, Bella loves painting and exploring the natural beauty of the Bay Area.
Taylor Chambers
Taylor grew up in Sacramento, California. In 2016, she graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Political Science. After college, she tutored and mentored Boston elementary students through an AmeriCorps program. This experience led her to seek a systems reform approach to educational equity issues, and she spent the next two years at the National Center for Youth Law supporting an initiative aimed to improve the education outcomes for students in the foster care or juvenile justice systems. At SLS, Taylor has served on the NALSA board, SLA Mental Health and Wellness Committee, WoCC Board, and volunteered with StreetLaw. She has been fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with awesome lawyers as a summer intern with the ACLU of Northern California, Santa Clara County Counsel Office, and as a YELP clinic student. In her free time, Taylor enjoys trying new Joanna Gaines recipes, traveling with friends and family, cornhole, and perfecting her Spotify playlists.
Tyler Cochran
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Bailey Colfax
After spending her formative years in the mountains of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Bailey graduated from Harvard University with a joint degree in African American Studies and History. She is primarily interested in death penalty defense work with an emphasis on racial justice. This summer she interned at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, GA.She has previously worked at the California Appellate Project (CA) and the Equal Justice Initiative (AL). As a 2L, she was Co-President of the Women of Color Collective, Gala Chair of Black Law Students Association, Mentorship Chair of the Criminal Law Society, a Senior Editor on the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Journal, and a research assistant for Professor Marshall. In her free time, Bailey enjoys watching reality TV, playing outdoor games, and drinking copious amounts of tea.
Jonathan Contreras
Jon hails from Ventura County in Southern California. He graduated from Pomona College in 2018 with a B.A. in English. At SLS, Jon has served on the boards of the Stanford Latinx Law Student Association (SLLSA), Stanford Advocates for Immigrants’ Rights (SAIR), Outlaw, and First-Generation/Low-Income Professionals (FLI). During his 1L year, Jon joined the Immigration Policy Tracking Project as a Research Assistant, and currently serves as the team’s Project Coordinator. He spent his 1L summer working with the California Department of Justice, Civil Rights Enforcement Section and 2L summer with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. After law school, Jon will join the ACLU of Southern California Immigrants’ Rights team as a fellow. When not stuck behind a computer, Jon enjoys finding new ways to test the limits of his KitchenAid stand mixer.
Courtney Colwell
Courtney grew up in Rye, New York. In 2018, she graduated from Johns Hopkins University, where she majored in Political Science and minored in Social Policy and Economics. After college, Courtney was a Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center where she participated in an anti-poverty program focused on training new leaders in the anti-hunger movement. At SLS, Courtney participated in the Community Law Clinic, co-led theEconomic Advancement Pro Bono, and served on the boards of theAmerican Constitution Society and the Youth and Education Advocates. She spent her 1L summer at the Urban Justice Center’s Safety Net Project and her 2L summer at the Bronx Defender’s Civil Action Practice. She will be externing this fall at the ACLU’s National Prison Project.
Miye D’Oench
Miye D'Oench is a rising 3L. She grew up in New York City and went to college at Harvard. After playing ice hockey in college, she signed with the New York Riveters in the NWHL. While playing professional ice hockey, she worked at the Manhattan DA's Office in the Rackets Bureau. She then deferred law school a year to work as a field organizer in Lexington, Kentucky for Amy McGrath's 2018 House race. At SLS she is involved in Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, Stanford Law Review,Housing Pro Bono, the Healthy Elections Project, OutLaw, Women of Color Collective, APILSA, WSL, and Stanford Club Ice Hockey. During her 1L summer, she interned at the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund in San Antonio.This past summer she split between the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Office of the New YorkStateAttorney General Civil Rights Bureau. She loves to cook, hike, and do anything outdoors!
Anita Desai
Anita grew up in Columbus, OH and went to Swarthmore College before moving to New York and then California. She enjoys biking, cooking, and hanging out with her dog, Taco. Anita is interested in eviction defense, immigrants’ rights, and medical-legal clinics. She wants to be a legal aid attorney when she grows up.
Saraphin Dhanani
Saraphin grew up in Sugar Land, Texas and graduated from Wellesley College in 2016, where she majored in Economics and Political Science. Before law school, Saraphin worked in the Markets Group at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Simultaneously, she founded a website to expand career and educational resources for refugees across the globe by virtually connecting them with volunteers offering university prep mentorship, guidance on securing employment, and English language tutoring. Saraphin is also the recipient of the Madeleine Korbel Albright Fellowship and serves as the Alumna Representative on the Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute Ambassadors Council. At Stanford, Saraphin was the recipient of the Lisa M. Schnitzer Fellowship during her 1L year, an award recognizing one 1L student dedicated to public interest. The fellowship funded her 1L summer internship at the Foreign Ministry of Estonia, where she worked on matters related to human rights, national security, and media freedom. Saraphin is presently the Senior Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review and served as co-President of the Stanford National Security and the Law Society.
Bruce Easop
Bruce grew up in Basking Ridge, NJ. He received an A.B. in Politics from Princeton University and a M.A. in Legal and Political Theory from UCL. He worked in higher education for five years before coming to Stanford to pursue interests in education policy and civil rights. At SLS, he has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, co-director of the Workers’ Rights Pro Bono Project, co-founder of the TGI Pro Bono Project, and VP of the Youth & Education Advocates. He has also participated in the Youth and Education Law Clinic and interned with the Education Civil Rights Alliance at the National Center for Youth Law, the U.S. Department of Justice-Educational Opportunities Section, and the Lawyers’Committee for Civil Rights. Outside of class, he is an avid baker and can’t wait to return to seeing art and theater!
Brooke Edwards
Brooke Edwards grew up in Altadena, CA and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Political Science and Urban Studies. After graduating, Brooke worked as an Investigator at Children’s Law Center inWashington,D.C. She then moved back home to California and volunteered with 826LA assisting high school students withEnglish classes and college counseling and with Girls on the Run as a middle school running coach. At SLS, Brooke is involved on the boards of the Black Law Students Association, Women of Color Collective, and Youth and Education Advocates. Her 1L summer she interned as a Housing Law Intern at East Bay Community Law Center.Brooke is interested in juvenile justice, criminal defense, and more broadly working to serve communities of color.In her free time, she enjoys running outside, red wine tasting, cornhole, dogs, soccer, and watching The Bachelor/Bachelorette with her roommates.
Claire Fieldman
Claire Fieldman grew up in Danville, CA. She graduated from UCLA in 2019 with a degree in English and Spanish. At SLS, Claire served as co-President of Women of Stanford Law, co-leader of the Immigration Pro Bono, and on the board of Stanford Advocates for Immigrants’ Rights.She also participated in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Claire is committed to pursuing a career at the intersection of immigration and criminal defense. She spent her 1L summer at Make the Road New York and her 2L summer at Brooklyn Defender Services working primarily on removal defense cases and federal appellate litigation. After graduation, Claire will be clerking for Judge Robin Rosenbaum on the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals before returning to New York and removal defense work. Outside of law school, Claire enjoys teaching yoga, reading, managing her fantasy football teams, and watching the Bachelor franchise.
Eva Fourakis
Eva grew up in Columbus, OH, and Madison, WI. She graduated from Williams in 2016, where she majored in math and psychology. She then worked at the Princeton Baby Lab for two years studying how children learn to talk and then took a year off. During her year off, Eva lived in Greece for six months and then interned at the Federal Public Defender in Maryland. Eva wants to be a public defender after graduating, and just completed a summer internship at the New Hampshire Public Defender. Her 1L summer, she interned at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office. At Stanford, she is involved in the Prisoner Legal Services pro bono project and was on the board of Stanford Prisoner Advocacy and Resources Coalition (SPARC)as a 2L. In her 2L year, Eva was also the co-president of the Jewish Law Students Association (JLSA) and a co-mentorship chair for OutLaw. Whatever free time she has is mostly spent hanging out with friends, reading for fun (if her brain can handle it after a day of casebook reading), trying to stop her cat Luna from chewing everything in sight, and quilting. Eva uses she/her/hers pronouns.
Sidni Frederick
Sidni grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts and graduated from HarvardCollege with an A.B. in History and Literature in 2017. She then spent two years working as a special assistant at the Brennan Center for Justice, a legal think tank specializing in research and advocacy on issues of democracy, criminal justice, and national security. Sidni spent her 1L summer asa legal intern with the Natural Resources Law Section of the California Attorney General’s Office. Her 2L year, she was a co-coordinator of the Environmental Law Pro Bono Project, a Lead Article Editor of the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, and one of the Stanford American Constitution Society chapter’s Academic Chairs. She also participated in theEnvironmental Law Clinic and spent her 2L summer at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger. Outside of law school, Sidni enjoys playing bocce, reading speculative fiction, and watching people play video games on Twitch.
Jennifer Friedmann
Jennifer Friedmann is a 3L with an interest in Civil Rights, Election Law, and Environmental Justice. She spent her 2L summer at the San Francisco-based environmental PPI firm, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, and is studying abroad at Sciences Po in Paris, France for Fall 2021. She will be clerking for the Honorable Michael H. Simon in the U.S. District of Oregon after graduation. At Stanford, Jennifer was the Co-President of the American Constitution Society, President of the Environmental Law Journal, Co-President of the Election Law Project, and on the boards of the Environmental Law Society, Women in Politics and Public Service, and Older Wiser Law Students. She is also involved with OutLaw, FLI Professionals, WSL, and SLS Democrats. Jennifer participated in the Environmental Law Clinic in Winter 2021. In the voting rights realm, Jennifer worked at the Brennan Center for Justice Democracy Program her 1L summer and was a team lead on the Stanford-MIT Healthy Elections Project. One of her favorite SLS experiences has been the DV Pro Bono. Jennifer grew up in the great city of Chicago but has been converted to a Bay Area resident by the prevalence of backpacking opportunities and really good coffee.
Charlotte Hendren
Charlotte is from Duxbury, MA. She graduated from Dartmouth College in 2014 with an A.B. in Government and History. After college, she worked at Deloitte Consulting in the public sector division in D.C. for four years, helping federal agencies and non-profits with management problems. She spent the year before starting law school working at a healthcare startup in San Francisco. At SLS, she is involved in the Stanford Law and Policy Review (SLPR), the Juelsgaard IP and Innovation Clinic (JIPIC), Women in Politics and Public Service (WIPPS), and Older and Wiser Law Students (OWLS). After graduation, she hopes to work with Lawyers for Civil Rights in Boston from 2022-23, and will be clerking in the Central District of California for the 2023-24 term. She and her partner love to ski and go hiking with their dog, Stanley, and are expecting their first baby 3L spring!
Donovan Hicks
As a first-generation college graduate, Donovan grew up in South Carolina and attended Wofford College, where he received his B.S. in Finance and B.A. in Government. As a junior, he was named a Harry S. Truman Scholar. He also received a M. Phil. in Race, Ethnicity, and Conflict from Trinity College Dublin as a George J. Mitchell Scholar. Before law school, he worked at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality and the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. on issues at the intersection of poverty and race. Donovan has also worked on a couple presidential campaigns. Donovan spent his 1L summer at the ACLU’s Racial Justice Project in New York. And he will spend his 2L summer at Williams and Connolly and Jenner and Block in Washington, D.C. At SLS, he served as the Black Law Students Association Co-President. He is also the Symposium Editor of the Stanford Law Review and an Articles Editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Donovan loves food, cycling, music, and is an avid Serena Williams fan.
Philip Issa
Philip Issa is a 3L with interests in criminal defense, civil liberties, immigration law, and national security law. Philip clerked at the Office of the Federal Defender for the Eastern District of California during his 1L summer and 2L year, where he worked for the team defending the Iraqi-born refugee Omar Ameen against extradition and removal back to his country of origin. The high-profile case raised troubling questions about the politicization of the security, justice, and diplomatic branches of government. Since a federal judge blocked Ameen's extradition, the government has been trying to remove him through immigration proceedings. Philip spent his 2L summer working in direct services at the Immigrants’ Rights Program at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Los Angeles. He is currently enrolled in the Criminal Defense Clinic, and he enrolled in the the Human Rights and International Justice and Yurok Legal Assistance policy labs his 2L year. Before law school, Philip was a correspondent for the Associated Press. He reported from Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria.
Leah Kennedy
Leah Kennedy (she/her) is passionate about worker rights and tenant rights, particularly as they relate to immigrants and people with disabilities. At Stanford, Leah has been involved with the Disability & Mental Health Network at Stanford (co-president), Stanford Advocates for Immigrant Rights (worker rights advocacy chair), the National Lawyers Guild SLS Chapter (board member), and the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties (articles editor). She is the co-founder of RAD Justice, a pro bono project centered on empowering Latinx families in attaining services for their children with disabilities. During her 1L summer, Leah worked at the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County on the housing team, advocating for tenant protections during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the 2L winter quarter, she worked in Stanford’s Community Law Clinic, where she represented clients in housing, social security disability, and criminal record expungement matters. She spent her 2L spring quarter externing with Legal Aid at Work in the National Origin and Immigrants’ Rights Program and her 2L summer working at the Liu Law Firm, a plaintiff-side employment and civil rights firm. She served as a judicial extern for Judge Robert E. Bacharach on the Tenth Circuit in fall 2021. Originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Leah received her bachelor’s degree in Music Composition with minors in Social Justice and Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma in 2016. Prior to law school, she worked as an immigration paralegal. In her free time, Leah enjoys singing made-up songs about her foster cats to her foster cats.
Yulie Landon
Yulie grew up in the Bay Area. She received her B.A. in American Studies from Columbia University. After graduation she worked at the Brooklyn DA’s Office in their Frauds/Investigations Bureaus for two years before moving back to the Bay for law school. At SLS, she’s involved in the Immigrants’ Rights clinic and has served as the Co-President of the Domestic Violence Pro Bono and If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice; Student Note Editor for the Stanford Journal for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties; and a mentor in JLSA and WSL. She spent her 1L summer at the National Center for Lesbian Rights and her 2L summer at Jenner & Block in New York. She is currently externing at the National Immigration Project of NLG. After graduation she will be clerking for Judge Cole on the Sixth Circuit in Columbus, Ohio, before pursuing a career in Immigrants’ rights litigation. Outside of law school she enjoys playing with her adorable nephews, reading, and dancing.
Celina Malavé
Celina Malavé grew up in a big afro-latinx family in College Station, Texas. She did her undergraduate at Stanford in bioengineering and religious studies. Afterwards, she completed a masters in bioethics at Columbia University while working at a small biopharmaceutical company in NYC. Celina is third year student at Stanford Law School. Celina had the privilege of interning with the Center for Reproductive Rights on the Human Rights team, and this past summer she was an Ella Baker intern with the Center for Constitutional Rights. She is active in the Black Law Student Association, the Stanford Women’s Community Center, and with the Stanford Critical Law Society. Celina is interested in the pursuit of, study of, and practice of black liberation at the intersection of ethics, religion, policy, racial and reproductive justice, medicine, and the law.
Jacob McCall
Jacob grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina and attended UC Berkeley, where he majored in Political Science and minored in Human Rights. At SLS, he has been involved with the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, the Election Law Project, theAmerican Constitution Society, the Community Law Clinic, and the Economic Advancement Program Pro Bono Project. He spent his 1L summer working for Just Atonement, a non-profit working on climate change impact litigation and human rights advocacy. Then, he spent his 2L summer working for the DOJ in the voting section. Post-grad, Jacob hopes to work on voting rights litigation at a non-profit or government agency. In his free time, he likes to play guitar, cook, bake, read, and explore the Bay Area.
Daniela Muehleisen
Daniela was born in Toluca, Mexico and grew up in Michigan in mixed German-Mexican household. She received her B.A. in Government and Global Health/Health Policy from Harvard College. Prior to attending law school, Daniela volunteered as a mentor in a juvenile hall for two years during college. At Stanford, Daniela served the Co-President of the Street Law pro bono program as well as Co-President of the Women of Color Collective, and she continues to mentor and tutor youth. Daniela spent her 1L summer working at the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Immigration Unit and her 2L summer working at the Federal Defender of San Diego. She hopes to become a public defender. In her free time, she likes to box, write poetry, and dance bachata.
Lili Nimlo
Lili grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico and graduated from the University of Puget Sound in 2015 with a B.A. in English Literature. Before law school, she worked as a legal intake counselor at the ACLU of Washington and a substitute teacher in Tacoma Public Schools. She served as a senior editor on the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties and is co-president of the Stanford Prisoner Advocacy and Resources Coalition this year. Her 1L summer, Lili externed with Chief Judge Kimberly Mueller in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. She spent her 2L summer with the East Bay Community Law Center’s Education Defense and Justice for Youth Clinic. She is excited to participate in the Three Strikes Project this Fall! In her free time, Lili likes playing basketball and reading.
Molly Norburg
Molly is a Kansas Citian who graduated from the University of Kansas in 2016 with degrees in journalism and international studies. Before law school, she lived in Chicago for three years, where she ran the lakefront whenever she was not running events for Mayors Emanuel or Lightfoot. At SLS, Molly has pursued her interest in international humanitarian law and human rights law with a gender lens. This includes leadership stints with the Stanford Journal of International Law, the International Law Society, and SLS for Gender Violence Prevention, as well as international justice policy lab work with Prof. Beth Van Schaack. She spent her 1L summer researching child sexual exploitation/trafficking issues for ECPAT-USA, her 2L summer supporting civil litigation for human rights abuses at the Center for Justice & Accountability, and her 3L fall at a war crimes tribunal in The Hague.
Catherine Rocchi
Catherine grew up in Westchester County, New York, which she can’t complain about but isn’t her favorite. She much prefers the Pacific Northwest—especially Oregon—where she spent many summers exploring the temperate rainforest with her extended family. In 2019 she graduated from Dartmouth College, where she majored inEnvironmental Studies and worked on a fossil fuel divestment campaign. At SLS, Catherine is a co-president of the Environmental Law Society, a member of the OutLaw political action committee, and is involved with the national Law Students for Climate Accountability movement and Steven Donziger’s legal defense team. Catherine is a California enthusiast and spends most weekends skiing, climbing, or cycling all over this beautiful state.
Jordan Rudner
Jordan grew up in Dallas, Texas, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where she received her B.A. in Plan II Honors and History. Her honors thesis explored the role of race and gender in media coverage of landmark Supreme Court cases in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. After graduation, she worked as a Washington correspondent for The Dallas Morning News and spent two years as a social worker in Anchorage, Alaska. At SLS, Jordan has served as co-director of the Workers’ Rights pro bono clinic and co-president of the Jewish Law Students Association, in addition to her involvement in Stanford Prisoner Advocacy Coalition and Resources. She spent her 1L summer at Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund and the ACLU of Southern California, and she spent her 2L summer at Alaska Public Defenders in Fairbanks. After graduation, Jordan will clerk for Judge Myron Thompson in Montgomery, Alabama. In her free time, she loves taking naps and going camping.
Jessica Salley
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Elias Schultz
Eli was born and raised in Long Island, New York. He graduated from Amherst College with a major in Political Science and spent a year before law school as a paralegal in New York City. He came to law school with an interest in empowering workers and fighting inequality. Eli spent his 1L summer as a judicial intern and this past summer with Bredhoff & Kaiser, a PPI firm in Washington, D.C. that represents labor unions. As a 2L, Eli helped coordinate the Housing Pro Bono Project, volunteered with a legal team defending a plaintiff’s lawyer facing contempt charges, and served as an Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Law & Policy Review. He is currently on the boards of the National Lawyers Guild and Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Association. He will clerk for Judge Block of the Eastern District of New York after graduating. Eli enjoys music, art museums, trains, and sleeping.
Jake Seidman
Jake grew up in Cambridge,Massachusetts, and received his B.A. in Political Science and Russian Language & Culture from Columbia University. After graduating in 2017, he worked in the New York City Mayor’s Office on capital project development and operations policy. He is passionate about pursuing impactful reforms to our broken criminal punishment bureaucracy (especially at the state and local level). He spent the summer after 1L as a Fair and Just Prosecution Fellow in the office of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin and spent this past summer in the California Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Enforcement Section. On campus, he has co-ledSPARC’sPrisoner Legal Services pro bono project and served as Special Issue Editor for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights &Civil Liberties and Lead Online Editor for the Stanford Law & Policy Review.Last year, he worked with local governments in policy labs focused on re-allocation of police resources and affirmative litigation and spent his spring quarter in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic.In his (unfortunately minimal) free time, he loves to cook and explore the great California outdoors.
Ada Statler
Ada grew up in the Kansas City area, where her environmental interest was sparked on road trips across the Midwest and to the Rocky Mountains. She did her undergrad at Stanford as well, where she majored in Earth Systems and was the editor of The Stanford Daily. Before coming to law school, she worked on the Climate & Clean Energy team at the Natural Resources Defense Council in New York. Ada spent her 1L summer in the Los Angeles Office of the Mayor, and her 2L summer at Earthjustice and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. At SLS, she coordinates the environmental pro bono and is pursuing a joint-masters in environment and resources through the E-IPER program. Ada is also a member of FLI and OutLaw. In her free time, she enjoys needle crafts and attempting to bake with vegan substitutes.
Frances Tinney
Frances is from Salinas, California. She went to college at the City College of New York, where she majored in Economics. After college, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Potosi, Nicaragua, working in health education. She also worked in a conservation corps in Arizona doing wildfire mitigation, and as a field organizer for the Michigan Democratic Party during the 2018 midterms. During law school, she’s interned at Bay Area Legal Aid, the Center for Race, Poverty, and the Environment, and Earthjustice. She was a student in the Environmental Law Clinic during her 2L year and will be in the Community Law Clinic this year.
Andrew Toney-Noland
Andrew grew up in Memphis, Tennessee and graduated from Samford University in 2012. After undergraduate study, he pursued a three-year graduate degree at Emory University before spending several years living and working in London and Nepal. At SLS, Andrew has been an Executive Editor of the Stanford Law Review, Co-President of the Kirkwood Moot Court Competition, and Publications Chair of the Stanford Journal of International Law. He has also been involved with the Workers’ Rights Pro Bono Project, the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, and Older Wiser Law Students. Andrew spent his summers at Legal Aid at Work and Altshuler Berzon LLP. After graduation, he will move to Portland, Oregon, where he will clerk for the Honorable Jennifer Sung on the Ninth Circuit and work for a union-side labor law firm. Andrew spends much of his free time hiking, cycling, and hanging out with his partner, dog, and two children.
Caroline Zhang
Caroline grew up in Carmel, Indiana(home of over 130 roundabouts!). Before law school, she worked at the University of Alaska and at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a government ethics nonprofit. She is interested in environmental law and spent her summers in law school working in the Environmental Protection Division of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office and the Environment and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.