Class of 2026 Public Interest Fellows
Sara Bobok
Sara is from Schenectady, New York and is interested in pursuing civil rights litigation. Before law school, Sara worked at a youth aid organization in Harlem for three years and for one year in child sex trafficking prevention. At Stanford, she served as the co-President of Youth and Education Advocates, First Person Storytelling, and co-directed the Worker’s Rights Clinic and Education Defense Pro Bono. She spent her 1L summer with the Special Litigation Unit at NYLAG and her 2L summer at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP, a civil rights firm in New York. Ask me about: civil rights, children's rights, joint degree programs, and PPIs!
Sarah Bowen
Sarah is from Seattle, WA and worked as a professional violinist for five years before starting law school. Sarah spent her 1L summer with Seattle Clemency Project and her 2L summer in the Complex Litigation Division of the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. At SLS, she has been involved with the Immigration Pro Bono Project, the Community Law Clinic, and the Stanford Law Review. Ask me about: post-conviction work, state attorney general.
Claire Dinshaw
I am a rising 3L interested in public defense and criminal law. I have worked at the Santa Clara and San Francisco Public Defenders' offices and the SDNY Federal Defenders' offices. I have also spent time doing civil litigation work on behalf of incarcerated and system impacted individuals at Beldock, Levine, and Hoffman LLP. At Stanford Law, I have participated in the Criminal Defense Clinic and am a member of Stanford Law Review, where I served on the Articles Committee. Before law school, I worked at Redstone Strategy Group, a small consulting firm, supporting philanthropic strategy-design and grant making. Outside of school, I enjoy reading, baking, and watching bad TV. Ask me about: public defense and criminal law!
Kaisa Goodman
Kaisa Goodman grew up in Indiana and studied Environmental & Sustainability Studies at Indiana University. Prior to law school, Kaisa spent a decade in Bloomington, Indiana working and volunteering extensively in local government, politics, and community organizing. She worked for three years with the City of Bloomington, including roles as the mayor’s chief of staff and the City’s public engagement director. An experienced campaign manager and political consultant, she managed Mayor John Hamilton’s re-election campaign and served as the inaugural executive director of the Monroe County Democratic Party. While an employee at a grocery co-op, Kaisa was a leader in the employees’ successful efforts to unionize and later served as a union steward. She helped negotiate their initial contract using Interest Based Bargaining, a collaborative and issue-focused approach to negotiations, after becoming certified by the Federal Medication and Conciliation Service (FMCS). Kaisa serves on the boards of the Eugene V. Debs Foundation and the American Constitution Society (ACS) (2025-27 student representative) and as treasurer for Palo Alto Vice Mayor Vicki Veenker. She is an ACS Next-Generation Leader and a graduate of Hoosier Women Forward. At SLS, Kaisa was co-president of ACS, a managing editor for the Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties (CRCL), led an Alternative Spring Break trip (Detroit, 2025), participated in various pro-bono projects, and has worked extensively with the Gould Center for Conflict Resolution. Her summer internships with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California (2024) and the union-side labor law firm McCracken, Stemerman & Holsberry (2025) reflect her academic interests in labor law, government, constitutional law, and alternative dispute resolution. Ask me about: local government, labor law, alternative dispute resolution.
Tanvi Kohli
Tanvi graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 2020. She is interested in climate justice, environmental justice, and business and human rights law. After graduating, she worked at the Consortium for Gender, Security, and Human Rights, the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, and completed a Fulbright research grant in Mumbai and Kutch, India. During her time at SLS, she has interned with the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, EarthRights International, and the ACLU. Ask me about: making law school work for you!
Evan Lehman
Evan is a 3L from St. Louis, Missouri interested in tenant rights litigation, eviction defense, and community- and movement-based lawyering. Before law school, Evan worked on employment law research at SLS and was a paralegal in Colorado Legal Services' housing unit. On campus, he is involved with the National Lawyers Guild, Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Workers' Rights Pro Bono Project. He spent his summers at East Bay Community Law Center's housing clinic and Relman Colfax, a civil rights firm that litigates housing and consumer law cases. Ask me about: direct services, housing, movement lawyering.
Anna McLean
Anna grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, and attended Oberlin College. Before law school, she worked as a Legislative Assistant in the Virginia House of Delegates. At SLS, Anna has served as co-chair of the Environmental Law Society, executive editor on the Stanford Environmental Law Review, worked as a research assistant, and participated in the Prisoner Legal Services pro bono project. Anna spent her summers at the DOJ Environment and Natural Resources Division and the Southern Environmental Law Center. Anna loves puzzles (all kinds!), baking (requests accepted), and discovering the beautiful nature of California. Ask me about: environmental law.
Samuel Mori
Sam Mori is a 3L from Los Angeles California. Before law school he worked for the National Parks Service, worked in affordable housing development, and as a teacher in Japan. As a 2L he was in leadership of APILSA, OutLaw, and OWLS. After law school he plans on working for a public interest firm helping non profits and local governments build affordable housing. Ask me about: affordable housing, land use, public agency law.
Isabel Parkey
Isabel is a 3L from Brooklyn interested in health justice and global access to medicine. She graduated from Harvard in 2019 with a joint degree in Folklore & Mythology and History & Literature and worked for several years before law school at an independent bookstore. She spent her 1L summer working on health access policy at Doctors Without Borders' Global Health Advocacy and Policy office in New York and worked on generic drug price-fixing at the Antitrust Bureau of the NY State Attorney General's Office during her 2L summer. At SLS, she organized the 2025 Shaking the Foundations public interest conference, which focused on coordination and collaboration between "inside" forces, including lawyers and policy advocates, and "outside" forces, including grassroots organizers and community groups, to advance progressive social movements. She also co-led the National Lawyers Guild and Students for Justice in Palestine chapters. Ask me about: abolishing drug patents, Palestine solidarity, movement lawyering, my map of outdoor cats in Palo Alto.
Zoe Robertson
Zoe grew up in the suburbs of Chicago. She graduated from Yale College in 2023 with a degree in molecular biology and political science. At SLS, Zoe is an articles editor for the Stanford Law Review, a research assistant to Professor Greely, and a teaching assistant for the Building a Sustainable and Humane Food System policy practicum. She previously led the Stanford Animal Protection Project pro bono and the Food and Animal Law Society. She spent her 1L summer at Mercy for Animals and split her 2L summer between two plaintiffs' firms, Keller Postman and Miner, Barnhill & Galland. Ask me about: animal law, plaintiffs' law, the Environmental Law Clinic, or bioscience and the law!
Nissim Roffe Piket
I was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. After attending Yale University, I taught middle school social sciences in San Antonio, Texas. I came to law school to pursue public defense and explore other fields I am interested in like international human rights, workers' rights, and immigration law. I would want to say that most people at the law school know me for being kindhearted and goofy. But in reality, I am known more for eating canned sardines with some rice in Russo Lounge almost everyday around 1pm. Thanks for stopping by to learn about me! Ask me about: public defense, coffee shops, study abroad.
Fausto Rojas
Originally from Southern California, Fausto Rojas has stumbled his way from Downey to Providence and then back to California again. He came in to law school wanting to be a public defender and is, shockingly, still committed to that cause. He spent his 1L summer in Denver with the state public defender office and is currently writing this in Fairbanks, Alaska, where he is also working for a state public defender office. He enjoys drawing, reading, hiking (allegedly), and talking about things he has no expertise on. Ask me about: state public defender work.
Sarah Ryan
Sarah is a 3L from Harrison, New York, interested in civil rights and labor and employment law. Before law school she spent three years as a legal assistant at a plaintiff-side employment firm. At Stanford, she’s involved with Outlaw, the Workers’ Rights Pro Bono Project, Stanford Law Review, the Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Association, and the Rhode Center. She spent her 1L summer at the Department of Labor’s New York Regional Office of the Solicitor and her 2L summer Altshuler Berzon, a union-side firm in SF. Ask me about: labor and employment law; plaintiff-side practice.
Ariel Salmon
I'm a rising 3L who graduated from the University of Chicago with a Bachelors degree in Political Science, and worked as a legal assistant for three years. In my 1L I volunteered with the Social Security Disability Pro Bono Project and worked as an intern at the Stanford Racial Justice Center, and spent my 1L summer in Baltimore as an Equal Justice Works Summer Fellow engaged in direct services work with the ROAR Center. As a 2L, I worked as the Technical Managing Editor for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, and served as the Co-President for the Black Law Students Association for the 2024-2025 school year. Outside of school I train and play with my dog, play videogames, and have been trying to get involved in some of the dance groups and martial arts groups on campus. ( I know where they are, but please don't assume I'm good at them!) Ask me about: Federal Indian Law courses, SPLC, Earthjustice, Flywheel, or honestly literally anything about law school, I'm always down for a chat.
Dan Sweeney
Dana Sweeney grew up in rural southern Georgia and then spent a decade living in Alabama before moving to the Bay to attend SLS. Prior to law school, he worked for six years as the statewide community organizer for the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice, where he worked on prison and debt campaigns. He spent his 1L summer exploring disability law with the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley (San Jose) and his 2L summer working in environmental and local government law at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger (San Francisco). Ask me about: cross-country moves, environmental law as a non-science person, course planning, & not getting too wrapped up in the law school stress.
Luke Trinka
My name is Luke Trinka and I am from Chicago, Illinois. Prior to coming to law school, I worked in legal aid and holistic defense. I then attended divinity school and trained as a minister. In my first summer of law school I worked at Phillips Black, and in my second I worked for the Indiana Federal Community Defenders Capital 2255 Unit. I have two great loves in my life: the first is my wife and the close second is our beloved golden-doodle Harlow. Ask me about: post-conviction criminal defense, especially state and federal habeas representation.
Aidel Townsley
Aidel Townsley is a 3L at Stanford Law School, focused on disability justice and mental health rights. Raised in Los Angeles, she hopes to fight for wellness and equality in our global community through impact litigation, educational advocacy, and strengthening community relationships. Particular interests include deconstructing the carceral state, LGBTQ+ rights, access to healthcare, and trauma informed lawyering. Ask me about... international public interest and impact litigation internships, on campus mental health resources, and good food spots in Palo Alto. Ask me about: international public interest, disability justice, mental health law, criminal justice.
Brian Xu
Brian is originally from San Gabriel Valley, CA and graduated from Georgetown University in 2021. On campus, he is involved with the Workers' Rights pro bono project, the Rhode Center, and the Center for Racial Justice. During law school, he has worked for the ACLU of Northern California, Legal Aid at Work, ACLU National, and Public Justice. Brian spent his 2L summer splitting between Gupta Wessler and Susman Godfrey. Ask me about: workers' rights, access to justice, appellate litigation, PPI work.
Emily Zinkula
Emily is from Austin, Texas. She graduated in 2022 from Colorado College with degrees in Organismal Biology & Ecology and Anthropology. Her interests are at the intersection of biodiversity conservation, climate change, and human rights, and she is pursing a joint JD/MS in Environment and Resources through E-IPER. At SLS she has participated in the Environmental Law Clinic, worked as a Research Assistant at both the law school and the Doerr School of Sustainability, and served as co-president of the Environmental Law Society, the Stanford Food & Animal Law Society, and the Stanford Animal Protection Pro-Bono Project. She spent her 1L summer with the Earth Law Center in Durango, Colorado, and she split her 2L summer split between Rwanda, where she clerked for the Supreme Court in Kigali, and South Africa, where she worked for a anti-poaching conservation organization. In her free time, she enjoys painting, drawing, farmers markets, and spending time outdoors. Ask me about: Earth Law, Environmental Law, Animal Law, Wildlife Conservation, interdisciplinary studies.
Natalia Zorilla
Natalia is from San Diego, CA; she graduated from Princeton University in 2023 with a degree in philosophy. At Stanford, she co-led the Housing Pro Bono Project, served on the American Constitution Society Board, and researched access to justice issues with David Freeman Engstrom and Todd Venook. She is currently an advanced student in the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, an Online Managing Editor on the Stanford Law Review, and a member of the Kirkwood Moot Court Board. She spent her 1L summer with HUD’s Office of Fair Housing and her 2L summer with the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. After graduation, she will clerk for Justice Kelli Evans on the California Supreme Court and Judge Candace Jackson-Akiwumi on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She loves cooking, camping in national parks, and playing Dungeons & Dragons. Ask me about: housing and civil rights law.