Class of 2023 Public Interest Fellows
Allison Aaronson
Allison grew up in Montclair, New Jersey. Before law school, she studied international relations at Tufts University and worked as a strategy consultant in Washington, DC. After becoming more attuned to “local human rights” abuses, Allison shifted away from her international focus and applied to law school intent on becoming an advocate for workers in the U.S. Allison is passionate about workplace justice as a lever for equity, dignity, and community, and has focused on workers’ rights issues through her internships with Legal Aid at Work, the California Department of Justice Worker Rights and Fair Labor Section, and the San Francisco City Attorney Complex and Affirmative Litigation Team. At SLS, Allison has participated in the Youth and Education Law Project clinic, served as Co-Director of the Social Security Disability Pro Bono Project, worked as a research assistant on issues of local government and poverty, and completed an independent research project on legal remedies for workplace health violations in the time of COVID. After graduation, Allison will clerk for the Honorable Sidney Thomas of the Ninth Circuit and the Honorable Sallie Kim of the Northern District of California. In her free time, Allison enjoys trail running, backpacking, practicing yoga, and hosting themed dinner parties.
Daniel Ahrens
Daniel grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico and studied Environmental Science at Berkeley. He is passionate about his state and came to law school to learn how to further Tribal sovereignty and work with rural communities. Before law school,he worked in Alaska at a Tribal non-profit and an art museum, and then moved to Bangkok, where he worked at a Thai environmental non-profit. While at Stanford,he has interned at the US Department of Justice and DNA-People’s Legal Services (legal aid for the Navajo Nation); competed in and won best brief at the National NALSA Moot Court competitions; founded the Stanford Native Law pro bono project (which he is always excited to talk about); and has helped research and draft multiple amicus briefs in Federal Indian Law cases before the Supreme Court. He also participated in the Environmental Law Clinic, where he successfully argued a case in Federal court on behalf of the beautifully goofy, Bi-State Sage Grouse (look it up!). Outside of school, he loves to learn new languages, cook large dinners for friends, go on walks with his grandfather, and ride his bike around the peninsula. Next year, he will clerk for Judge Sidney Thomas on the Ninth Circuit in Billings, Montana.
Marty Berger
Marty is from Portland, Oregon. He graduated from Harvard College in 2019 with a degree in Social Anthropology. At Stanford, he co-led the Immigration Pro Bono Project and directed last year's Shaking the Foundations conference. He spent his summers at Civil Rights Corps and the Alaska Public Defender Agency. Marty enjoys pop music, literary fiction, and chocolate chip cookies of all varieties.
Tess Bissell
Tess grew up in western Massachusetts and earned a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University. Before law school, she worked in education non-profits (in D.C.) and at an education foundation (right here in Stanford!). At SLS she has served as a project leader for Project Clean Slate, Alumni Community Chair for Stanford Youth and Education Advocates (YEA), and Co-chair of Stanford Law Association’s (SLA) Academic Affairs Committee. Tess works as a Research Assistant to Professor Anne Joseph O’Connell, is a Senior Editor of the Stanford Law Review, and is involved with the Native Law Pro Bono. She is a joint-degree student in the Graduate School of Education's JD/MA program and participated in the Youth & Education Law Project (YELP) Clinic during her 2L winter. She spent her 1L summer at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law in DC (virtually!) as part of their Educational Opportunities team. She split her 2L summer between Jenner & Block's DC office and the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (Educational Opportunities Section). After graduation, she will be clerking for Judge Loren AliKhan in the D.C. Court of Appeals and Judge Jia Cobb in the District Court for the District of Columbia. She is always happy to talk about youth and education law, the joint degree life, great fiction, and/or her dog Chewbacca.
Trevor Byrne
Trevor grew up in Orlando, FL. He graduated from Harvard in 2018 with a degree in social studies. After college, Trevor worked for two years as a legal assistant at Sanford Heisler Sharp, a plaintiff-side employment law firm. At SLS, Trevor is involved with the National Lawyers Guild, the Community Law Clinic, the Housing Pro Bono Project (Coordinator), CRCL (Managing Editor), and SLR (Associate Managing Editor). He spent his 1L summer with ArchCity Defenders in St. Louis, and he spent his 2L summer with the Impact Fund in Berkeley. After graduating, Trevor will clerk for the Honorable Carolyn Dineen King on the Fifth Circuit.
Oona Cahill
Oona grew up in New York City and studied Middle East Studies and History at Brown University. Before starting at Stanford, she worked at a boutique immigration law firm for people in the arts. At SLS, she is involved with various immigrants'/human/workers' rights-related things, including IRC (her favorite thing she's done at Stanford!). Oona spent her 1L summer interning with the Immigration Unit of the San Francisco Public Defender and her 2L summer at ACLU NorCal's Immigrants' Rights team. Outside of work/school, you can usually find her hanging out with her cat Paulie Walnuts or doing a number of crunchy activities (making kombucha, hiking, gardening, etc.).
Anais (Ana) Carell
Anais (Ana) grew up in the Chicago area and graduated from Harvard College in 2017 with a degree in Applied Math. After college, she worked in consulting and for an affordable housing-focused nonprofit. At SLS, she is involved with the Community Law Clinic, Stanford Law Review, Public Interest Law Foundation, First Person, Housing Pro Bono, and volunteers with Project Sentinel. Ana spent her 1L summer at the Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Washington (ask her about Seattle in the summer!) and her 2L summer at the ACLU of Northern California, on the Racial & Economic Justice team. In her free time, Ana can be found taking long hikes in the South Bay hills, backpacking in the Sierras, or trying a new pasta recipe.
Royce Chang
Royce plans to use his legal education to advocate for working people. He grew up in California and earned his B.A. in History and a minor in Global Poverty & Practice from UC Berkeley (Go Bears!). He is an alum of the Coro Fellows Program in Public Affairs and worked mainly in nonprofits and on campaigns before law school. Prior to starting at SLS, he spent two years as a server and prep cook at a Japanese restaurant and was an organizer for One Fair Wage. Royce has focused his time at SLS on workers’ rights and state/local government affirmative litigation. He spent his 1L summer with the Social Justice & Impact Litigation Team of the Santa Clara County Counsel's Office, and this past summer he was with the Worker Rights & Fair Labor Section of the Office of the California Attorney General. He has been a certified law student with the Community Law Clinic and externed with Legal Aid at Work. At SLS, he has served on the boards of SLLSA, FLI, and Shaking the Foundations, Stanford’s annual public interest lawyering conference. Royce was also a member editor of CRCL. He continues to serve as a member mentor of APILSA and is a TA for Professor Michelle Wilde Anderson’s local government policy practicum. He loves soccer (he is a long-suffering Arsenal fan), exploring the Bay Area restaurant scene, and is getting into cycling thanks to his classmates. He and his partner are raising a rescue corgi named Fenton.
Sabrina Devereaux
Sabrina is a rising 3L from San Diego, California interested in marine conservation law and the international law of the sea. She graduated from Harvard in 2018 with a degree in Environmental Science and Public Policy. Before law school, she worked as a fisheries policy analyst for the National Marine Fisheries Service and as a field biologist on board commercial fishing vessels in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska. At Stanford, Sabrina is pursuing a joint M.S. through the EIPER program and is involved in the Environmental Law Pro Bono Project, the Environmental Law Journal, and the Environmental Law Society.
Dakota Foster
Dakota Foster is a proud Mainer and graduate of Amherst College. At Stanford, Dakota has focused on American democracy and criminal law through the lens of elections, emergency powers, cyber, domestic extremism, and technology. She aspires to serve in the federal government. Dakota spent her 1L summer interning in the intelligence community and her 2L summer at the Department of Justice (CCIPS). She has also externed for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California (Criminal Division) and the Department of Justice’s National Security Division. Dakota is a die-hard New England Patriots fan, Dunkin’ drinker, runner, and outdoor enthusiast. You can find her running trails around the South Bay or adventuring with friends, family, and dogs.
Kerry Guerin
The two halves of Kerry's heart are environmental justice and trans advocacy. Before law school, they worked at Self-Help Enterprises alongside farmworker communities in California's San Joaquin Valley to implement the state's Human Right to Water. Kerry spent their law school summers at Communities for a Better Environment and Earthjustice's California Regional team. They are externing with the Transgender Law Center in the fall of their 3L year, before joining the Community Law Clinic in the winter.
Jenny Jiao
Jenny grew up in Columbus, Ohio. She graduated from Duke University in 2020 with a degree in Economics. She is interested in criminal defense, immigration, and civil rights. On campus, she is involved in the Asian and Pacific Islander Law Student Association, Stanford Law Review, Moot Court and the Immigrants' Rights Clinic. She interned at the SF Public Defenders' Office during her 1L summer and the SDNY Federal Defenders' Office during her 2L summer. Outside of law school, she enjoys rollerblading, beach volleyball, crosswords, and watching reality TV.
Sam Joyce
Sam grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida. He graduated from the University of Chicago with an A.B. in Environmental & Urban Studies in 2020. During college, Sam worked for the South Side Weekly, a nonprofit community newspaper covering politics, the arts and culture on the South Side, and researched sea level rise in the Galápagos Islands. Sam spent his 1L summer at the San Mateo County Attorney’s office and his 2L summer in the Appellate Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division. He participated in the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic Fall 2021. During his 2L year, he was a Member Editor of the Stanford Law Review, a Lead Article Editor for the Stanford Environmental Law Journal, and a project leader for the Environmental Law Pro Bono Project. This year, he is excited to return to the clinic as an advanced student and serve as Managing Editor of the Stanford Law Review. In his (limited) free time, Sam enjoys hiking, climate fiction, watching football, and spending as much time as possible outside.
Josh Kirmsse
Josh (he/him) is a Bay Area native interested in climate law. He spent his 2L summer at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, his 2L winter quarter in the Environmental Law Clinic, and his 1L summer at the California Department of Justice's Natural Resources Division. Prior to law school, Josh worked in the California State Legislature and the California Attorney General's Office. Josh is also pursuing an M.S. in Environment and Resources with a focus on sustainable built environment and is particularly interested in land use, housing, transportation and air pollution. At Stanford, he's been involved with ACS and the three environmental orgs comprised of all the same people (the Society, the Pro Bono and the Journal). Outside of school and work, Josh enjoys playing and watching basketball, trying out new vegetarian sandwiches, and spending time with friends, family and his partner Lande.
Megan Koilparampil
Megan Koilparampil graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2013 with a B.A. in Global Studies. She moved to New York to serve as the Director of Scheduling and Advance to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power before serving as the Director of Operations for the Clooney Foundation for Justice. Here at SLS, Megan is proud to have served as Co-President of OutLaw and to have been an Executive Editor of CRCL and on the Boards of the Middle Eastern and South Asian Law Students Association (MESALSA) and the Stanford Human Rights Law Association (SHRLA). Megan also participated in Palestine Trek and is an advanced student in the Community Law Clinic. She spent her 2L summer in Alaska at the Public Defender Agency and her 1L summer working for the MacArthur Justice Center in New Orleans. Megan loves international travel, adventuring outdoors, and consuming as much queer media as she can.
Marisa Lowe
Marisa grew up in San Francisco and graduated from Yale College in 2017 with a degree in Global Affairs. After college, Marisa spent two years in consulting, then spent a deferred year working in a refugee camp in Leros, Greece and for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Democratic Staff on human rights and migration. At SLS, she has been on the boards of SLA, APILSA, and SIHRLA, an editor of the Stanford Law Review, and an RA for Professors Lucas Guttentag and Shirin Sinnar.
Leanna Lupin
Leanna grew up in San Diego and graduated from Columbia University in 2016, where she majored in English Literature and Sociology. After graduation, Leanna came back to the best coast, spending four years teaching middle school in Los Angeles. At SLS, Leanna is thrilled to have been co-president of the Stanford Latinx Students Association (SLLSA) and StreetLaw Pro Bono, as well as a co-founder of the Family-Defense Pro Bono Project. She also enjoyed being an Articles Editor for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights &. Civil Liberties (CRCL). Leanna is grateful to have spent her 1L summer internship at the California Appellate Project doing capital defense work surrounded by other people who also scream on a daily basis about how absurd the death penalty (and all of the PIC) is. She spent her 2L summer at the LA County Public Defender's Office and hopes to return to criminal defense work after graduation. A highlight of her time at SLS was her time in the Youth and Education Law Clinic, both as a full-time and advanced student. Beyond school, Leanna loves film photography, trying new restaurants, and, as off-brand as it is, watching mafia movies/TV shows.
Jared Milfred
Jared was born and raised in Portland, Oregon. He earned a B.A. from Yale University in 2016 and an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 2018. Before law school, Jared was a Field Organizer for Zephyr Teachout’s campaign for Attorney General of New York, a legal assistant at Gupta Wessler (a public interest firm that represents workers and consumers in economic justice litigation), and an intern with the Special Litigation department at Orleans Public Defenders. In law school, Jared serves as an Articles Editor for the Stanford Law Review and a research assistant for Professor William B. Gould IV, a former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board. During his 1L summer, he worked as a Peggy Browning Fellow at the labor union AFSCME, and during his 2L summer, he was a Summer Associate at the union-side labor law firm Altshuler Berzon. Jared has also participated in the Stanford Community Law Clinic, served as a Student Note Editor for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, volunteered for Stanford’s Housing Pro Bono Project, and served as a Board Member of Stanford’s chapter of the National Lawyers Guild. In his free time, Jared enjoys cooking, playing poker, and hiking with his Great Pyrenees mix named Stella.
Mohit Mookim
Mohit has been excited to learn about abolition, land back, anti-imperialism, and solidarity economy frameworks in law school—although largely outside of formal law school offerings. They learned from many people, including: friends excited about abolition, anarchism, and third world approaches to international law; webinars put on by the National Lawyers Guild and Law for Black Lives (both national networks); critical law review articles and Law and Political Economy blog posts (a legal academia movement); activists in Palestine who shared with the "PalTrek" trip facilitated by Berkeley law students; organizers at Resource Generation (a national membership organization committed to wealth and land redistribution); and perhaps most importantly, the Sustainable Economies Law Center, a legal nonprofit in Oakland that works to free the land and democratize/decolonize systems of finance, work, energy, food, and more (including by supporting groups like the East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative and POOR Magazine). Mohit interned at SELC during their 1L summer and has continued volunteering since. They were also grateful to do a 2L summer internship with the Yurok Tribe and a full-time externship with the New Economy Project in NYC.
Bridget Morrison
Bridget Morrison grew up outside of Washington, DC and graduated from Stanford in 2015. Between then and law school, she spent five years pursuing foster care and juvenile justice reform, political organizing, and mental healthcare advocacy mostly in New York City. Bridget spent her 1L summer at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and her 2L summer beginning her joint Masters in Public Health (MPH) degree at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. She is pursuing this additional degree to fortify her ability to combat the criminalization of mental illness––the issue to which she hopes to dedicate her career. Although she will be off campus this year (living in Baltimore completing the MPH), she is eager to connect with the SLS PI community remotely.
Marni Morse
Marni grew up in the Washington, DC area. In 2017, she graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Political Science and minors in Gender Studies and Values in Public Life (Ethics). After graduating, she spent three years working at a think tank, The Aspen Institute, first working on rule of law issues and then on two-generation solutions to poverty. Marni spent her 1L summer at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Office of the Chair, where she supported litigation and policymaking on various employment matters, with a focus on pay equity, immigrant worker rights, and disability/covid concerns. During 2L, she externed at the Center for WorkLife Law, a research and advocacy center that focuses on barriers working mothers face, assisting with research on caregiver discrimination and pregnancy discrimination. Her 2L summer she worked for the California Civil Rights Department, assisting with research for the legislative and regulatory affairs team. Marni is interested in gender equity, economic justice, and civil rights. At SLS, she led the Domestic Violence Pro Bono project and has been involved in WSL, CRCL, and ACS. Her favorite moment of law school has been producing the law school musical and bringing a live performance back after a virtual covid hiatus.
Coley Navarro
Coley Navarro grew up in Austin, Texas where his love of BBQ, art cars, and polka was born. He attended the United States Naval Academy, earning a B.S. in physics in 2009 and commissioning as a 2ndLt in the United States Marine Corps. After flight school, then Capt Navarro served as an EA-6B Prowler pilot in Eastern North Carolina and SOCAL. After separating from Active Duty in 2020, he came to SLS where he enjoys citizenship interview coaching with the Naturalization Pro Bono, flying with the Older Wiser Law Students, and participating in the MuSLSical. He spent his 1L summer at the U.S. Attorney's Office in Ft. Worth, TX and his 2L summer with a litigation boutique firm in Austin, TX.
Mide Odunsi
Mide grew up in San Antonio, Texas and graduated from Northwestern University in 2018, where she majored in Legal Studies and minored in African American Studies and Political Science. Before law school, she worked as a legislative assistant at the Center for Law and Social Policy, an economic justice nonprofit in Washington, DC. At SLS, Mide has served as the Professional Development Chair of the Black Law Students Association, a Senior Editor for Stanford Law Review and the Journal for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties and a co-leader of Project Clean Slate. She spent her 1L summer at the Texas Fair Defense Project, her 2L winter at the ACLU of Northern California and her 2L summer at the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund. In her free time, she enjoys baking, running and reading fiction.
Sandy Pecht
Sandy is from New Jersey, graduated from Yale in 2019, joined the Bernie campaign for a bit, and went to law school. After 1L he worked on voting rights issues for MALDEF and after 2L he worked for Bredhoff & Kaiser, a union-side labor law firm. On campus, he's mostly done voting rights groups and labor organizing. He strongly recommends Community Law Clinic. For fun, he likes watching movies and soccer.
Raisa Reed
Raisa was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. She graduated from Duke University in 2020 with B.A. in Psychology and a minor in Education. Currently, she is dual-enrolled in the Graduate School of Education where she is completing the JD/M.A. in Education. At SLS, she has served as BLSA co-president, on StreetLaw board, and on SLA diversion, equity, and inclusion committee. During her summers, she worked for the National Center for Youth Law (1L) and the Public Defender Service of DC (2L). She hopes to secure a job as a public defender upon graduation. Raisa loves basketball, a good book (always fiction), and laughing with her besties.
Hayden Rooke-Ley
Hayden grew up in Eugene, Oregon and studied biology and political science at Williams College. Upon graduation, he played professional basketball in Israel and then returned to the States to work on federal healthcare policy in Washington, DC for four years. At Stanford, Hayden co-founded the Law and Political Economy student group and has also been involved in the Community Law Clinic, Moot Court, ePluribus, SLS BioLaw and Health Policy, the Economic Advancement Project, and the Stanford Law and Policy Review. He spent his 1L summer at the Oregon Law Center (legal aid), and he split his second summer, first at Mckanna Bishop Joffe LLP, a labor firm in Portland, Oregon, and then at National Nurses United. As a 3L he will be externing at Altshuler Berzon LLP in San Francisco.
Joseph Rowley
Joseph grew up in the Los Angeles Area and majored in History at UC Berkeley. He spent his 1L summer at the Federal Public Defenders in San Jose working with clients and on a trial. During his 2L spring he was part of Stanford's Criminal Defense Clinic. Joseph is also involved in SLS's Prisoner Legal Services where he coordinated visits to the San Francisco County jail. He was also involved in SPARC working to coordinate in custody programming in the San Mateo County jails. His 2L summer was spent at the Solano County Public Defenders where he had a caseload and second chaired a trial. After graduation, Joseph hopes to work as a public defender. Outside of law school he enjoys camping and riding his bike.
Catherine Seita
Catherine grew up in Albany, New York. In 2020, she graduated from Cornell University, where she studied psychology with a focus on judgment and decision-making. She spent her 1L summer doing housing work at the Legal Aid Society in New York City and her 2L summer with the Democracy and Civic Engagement Program of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. At SLS, she was a VP of Student Initiative Grants for the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation, social chair of the Asian and Pacific Islander Law Students Association, recruitment chair of the Women of Color Collective, and member of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. In her free time, Catherine likes reading science fiction, online shopping, finding new places to get brunch, and drinking bubble tea.
Lillian Siegel
Lillian grew up in the Bay Area and studied economics and global health at Northwestern University. She worked as a legal assistant in DC before coming to Stanford for law school. At SLS, Lillian has worked to lead SPARC (Stanford Prisoners’ Advocacy and Resource Coalition), WSL (Women of Stanford Law), and SJIL (Stanford Journal of International Law). After 1L, she worked at the Prisoners’ Rights Project within the Criminal Defense Practice of the Legal Aid Society of New York. For her 2L summer, she split time between plaintiff’s and criminal defense work in San Francisco. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and playing tennis with classmates.
Sydney Speizman
Sydney grew up in Columbia, Maryland and graduated from Duke University in 2017 with a degree in Public Policy and Environmental Science and Policy. She is committed to becoming a community lawyer working at the intersection of environmental/climate justice, human rights, and corporate accountability. Before law school, she worked for Accountability Counsel, where she supported communities harmed by internationally financed development projects to protect their rights. She interned with EarthRights International during her 1L summer and Communities for a Better Environment during her 2L summer. She found her SLS home in the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic. She also likes taking long long walks, baking assorted loaves, and scrapping free food on campus.
Camila Strassle
Camila Strassle grew up in Pasadena, California and graduated from Stanford University with a major in Human Biology, minors in Spanish and Philosophy, and honors in Ethics in Society. After graduating, she spent two years as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health. She interned at the California Department of Justice Health, Education & Welfare Section her 1L summer and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Office of the Chief Counsel her 2L summer.
Hannah Subega
Hannah Subega grew up a few blocks away from Stanford in Palo Alto, CA. She graduated from Cornell University in 2020 and her overriding interest is in public defense and criminal justice. During her 1L summer, she interned with the San Francisco Public Defender’s office, where her main role was collaborating with a felony attorney on her client’s life trial. As a 2L, Hannah participated in the Criminal Defense Clinic in the fall. This past summer, she worked remotely with the ACLU Capital Punishment Project, where she worked on a variety of direct representation and impact litigation projects. At SLS, she has served as the co-President of the Criminal Law Society (CLS) and Disability and Mental Health Network at Stanford (DAMNS). She was also the VP of Community Engagement of SLLSA and a Senior Editor on the Stanford Law & Policy Review journal. In her free time, Hannah likes to read, spend time with friends, and listen to music. Please reach out to her if you have any questions about Palo Alto, public defense and/or criminal justice work, or anything else! She is happy to help aspiring public interest lawyers in whatever way she can.
Nathan Tauger
Nathan is a 3L interested in workplace and immigration law. He grew up in Morgantown, West Virginia. He majored in Biology at Vassar, then worked as an AmeriCorps VISTA in Mullens, West Virginia. He studied History of Science at the University of Manchester before working in West Virginia state politics and a nonprofit investigating housing discrimination claims. In law school, he has been involved in the workers' rights pro bono, NLG, and the musical. He interned at the Seattle Federal Public Defender and Pangea Legal Services. He enjoys traveling, spending time in libraries, going outside, and using the Windhover building.
Namrata Verghese
Namrata grew up in Houston, Texas. She graduated from Emory University summa cum laude in 2019, with a BA in English and Psychology. After moving abroad for a master’s degree in Postcolonial Studies from SOAS, University of London, she came to Stanford to pursue a joint JD and PhD in Modern Thought and Literature. At the law school, she is the Deputy Senior Articles Editor of the Stanford Law Review, and previously served as Co-Presient of the Middle Eastern and South Asian Law Students Association and Articles Editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. She was also on the boards of the Women of Color Collective and the Disability and Mental Health Network at Stanford. During her 1L summer, she was a Haber Fellow at the UCLA Williams Institute, helping with projects concerning international LGBTQ law and policy. This summer, she worked for the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. Her writing has appeared in Teen Vogue, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Catapult, and elsewhere. In her free time, she loves reading, experimenting with new recipes, and getting way too invested in terrible TV shows.
Raevyn Walker
Raevyn Walker is a rising third-year student at Stanford Law School. Raevyn spent time living in Virginia and Southern California before Raevyn graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science and a Minor In African American studies. Raevyn’s legal interests include employment law, civil rights, consumer protection, and local government. At SLS, Raevyn worked as a research assistant for the Rhode Center of the Legal Profession and served as a coordinator of the Housing Pro Bono Project. Also, Raevyn served in the Community Law Clinic. This past summer, Raevyn worked as a summer intern for the Equal Opportunity Commission in the Office of the Vice Chair. For her 1L summer, Raevyn was a summer law clerk for the Oakland City Attorney’s Office. In her free time, Raevyn likes to do yoga, cook for friends, read science fiction, and try new restaurants. Raevyn is excited for her 3L year, continuing as an advanced clinic student, and mentoring as a Public Interest Fellow.
Madeline Walsh
Madeline Walsh grew up in Denver, Colorado. She graduated from Williams College in 2018, with a double major in political science and Spanish. After college, she worked at Main Street Legal Services, the clinical program at CUNY School of Law in Queens, NY, as a coordinator for the Community & Economic Development Clinic and the Human Rights & Gender Justice Clinic. At Stanford, Maddie served as co-leader of the Prisoner Legal Services pro bono project and as in-custody programming chair for the Stanford Prisoner Advocacy and Resources Coalition (SPARC), planning book and creative writing groups in San Mateo County jail. She has also been an Articles Editor on Stanford Law Review, a Notes Editor on the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and a proud member of the Community Law Clinic. During her 1L summer, Maddie interned at Orleans Public Defenders. She split her 2L summer between Brown, Goldstein & Levy, a small civil rights firm in Baltimore, and California Rural Legal Assistance’s Agricultural Workers’ Project in Salinas, CA. Maddie is passionate about the intersections between criminal defense, workers’ rights, and poverty law. She would be thrilled to talk about public interest opportunities - or about film photography, hiking, or the best spots for coffee/beer!
Kai Wiggins
Kai Wiggins grew up in Rhode Island and graduated from Middlebury College in 2017 with a degree in Religion. Before law school, he worked at the Arab American Institute, a national civil rights organization. At SLS, he was a managing editor for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and participated in the Religious Liberty Clinic. He interned at the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division (Criminal Section). Kai loves running in the woods, riding bikes, and spending time with his family.
Amir Wright
Amir grew up in Los Angeles, CA, and spent ten years in Maryland as a child. In 2020, he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Political Science. While at Berkeley, he spent three years on the City Housing Advisory Commission, working to increase access to affordable housing. At Stanford, Amir was the External Vice President for the Black Law Students Association and is currently the Symposium Editor for the Stanford Law Review. He spent his 1L summer at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, his 2L fall externing at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and his 2L summer at the White House Counsel's Office. In his free time, Amir likes escaping Palo Alto for the broader Bay Area, cycling, and golf.
Leehi Yona
Leehi (she/her) was born in Israel and raised in Montreal, Quebec, and is passionate about the intersections of climate science and justice. At Stanford, she is also pursuing a PhD in the Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER), researching the global carbon cycle and greenhouse gas emissions inventories. In addition to working on her PhD research, Leehi was a Fellow with the Stanford Haas Center’s Partnerships for Climate Justice in the Bay Area last summer, placed with the California Environmental Justice Alliance. She is also a member of the Women of Color Collective, the Jewish Law Students Association, and the First Generation/Low-Income affinity groups.
Vanessa Young Viniegra
Vanessa grew up in Los Angeles, CA and graduated from UCLA in 2019 with a degree in History and Global Studies. Before law school, she worked at Public Counsel’s Federal Pro Se Clinic and was an SEO Law Fellow with Jenner & Block. She spent her 1L summer with the California Attorney General’s Consumer Protection Section, participated in the Immigrants' Rights Clinic, externed with Legal Aid at Work’s Racial Economic Justice and National Origin and Immigrants’ Rights teams, and spent her 2L summer with the Racial Justice team at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. Vanessa has broad interests that include workers’ rights, immigrants’ rights, and the decriminalization of poverty. After graduation, Vanessa will clerk on the Ninth Circuit for the Honorable Richard A. Paez, and then in the Central District of California for the Honorable Fernando M. Olguin. In her free time, Vanessa enjoys cooking, yoga, and spending time in San Francisco and outdoors.
Daniel Zahn
Daniel grew up in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 2020 from Penn State, where he studied English, philosophy, and communication arts and sciences. At Stanford Law, Daniel participated in the Religious Liberty Clinic, serves as Executive Editor of the Stanford Law Review, and previously served as the Development Editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, co-president of the Jewish Law Students Association, co-president of the Election Law Project, and a committee co-chair for the Stanford Law Association. He split his 1L summer between the Office of Federal Communications Commissioner Geoffrey Starks and the New York Civil Liberties Union, and he spent his 2L summer at the Knight First Amendment Institute. Daniel enjoys reading biographies, playing chess, and playing tennis. Above all that, he cherishes bowling.