Class of 2027 3L Public Interest Fellows
Nathan Abraham
Nathan is a 3L from Little Rock, Arkansas. He's excited to pursue a career focused in the criminal justice space. Nathan studied Politics and Economics and the University of Virginia. He spent four years working before law school, first as a consultant and later at a legal startup. Both of these experiences motivated him to combine technical skills with a passion for change through public interest fields. After two summers doing public defense in New York and Seattle, Nathan is committed to beginning his career as a public defender at the state level. He's had great opportunities to explore this interest by helping lead the Criminal Law Society and the Prisoner Legal Services pro bono project as Stanford. Outside of school, I'm a huge fan of the outdoors and have the best curated list of local hikes. Ask me about: Public defense, criminal justice.
Elijah Armstrong
Elijah is a 3L who is interested in criminal defense. He spent his first summer at the Innocence Project, his second summer at the Bronx Defenders, and is externing in the fall at the Federal Defenders of Eastern Virginia. He is also a disability justice activist, and a fan of nintendo games generally, pokemon specifically. Ask me about: Criminal Defense, Post-Conviction Litigation, Education Law, Disability Justice.
Sara Carillo
Sara is a 3L from Los Angeles, California. After graduating from Stanford University, she moved to Mendocino County, California, where she was a vegetable farmer for four years. Sara spent her 1L summer at Legal Services of Northern California in the Ukiah office and her 2L summer at the Mendocino County Public Defender's Office. After graduation, Sara will clerk for Judge Jesus G. Bernal of the Central District of California. Ask me about: the Criminal Defense Clinic, public defense.
Dayle Chung
Dayle grew up in New York City, and her family currently lives in the Hudson Valley. She graduated from Yale University in 2021 with a B.A. in U.S. History. Before law school, Dayle worked as a paralegal at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where she supported litigation advancing civil rights in multiple areas including voting rights, criminal justice, and education. At Stanford, Dayle serves as Deputy Senior Symposium Editor of the Stanford Law Review and as Articles Editor for the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. She is also a Harry Bremond-Wilson Sonsini Fellow at the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, a Fellow at the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law, Research Assistant to Professor Diego A. Zambrano, and Co-Director of the Workers’ Rights Pro Bono Project. Outside of law school, Dayle loves exploring coffee shops, finding new ways to stay active, and spending time with animals - she would gladly pet sit just about any creature (but has the most experience with dogs). Ask me about: Civil rights and criminal justice
Mary Fetter
Mary is a 3L 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 and at the Alaska State Public Defender Agency in Palmer, AK during her 2L summer. Ask me about: Criminal law, First Amendment law, Tech law. (plus running trails near campus!).
Isabel Gallegos
Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, I am pursuing a JD at Stanford Law School and a PhD in Computer Science at Stanford School of Engineering. I earned a joint BS and MS in computer science and a minor in education from Stanford in 2023. I am interested in legal questions at the intersection of law and technology, with a particular focus on antidiscrimination law and civil rights. I spent my 1L summer at ACLU NorCal on the Democracy, Speech, and Technology team, and will be at a plaintiffs firm doing civil rights and consumer protection work for 2L summer.
Mikaela Gerwin
Mikaela Gerwin is from New York City, and attended Princeton University where she majored in History. After college, Mikaela went to graduate school in the U.K. and then served in the federal government for over three years 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 is also getting a dual masters in History at Stanford. Ask me about: immigration law, federal government work.
Sarah Goodman
Sarah is a 3L at Stanford interested in civil and disability rights. Sarah is originally from Baltimore, Maryland before moving to Northern California. Before law school she spent four years working on reproductive rights, labor, and environmental protections as a staffer in the California legislature. At Stanford Sarah participated in the Yurok Tribe Alternative Break, the Santa Clara County Policy Practicum, and the Youth and Education Law Clinic. Sarah now co-leads the Social Security and Disability Pro Bono Project and the Older Wiser Law Students Association. During her 1L summer Sarah interned with state and federal judges, and and spent her 2L Relman Colfax, civil rights firm in Washington D.C. In her free time, Sarah enjoys cooking for friends and visiting museums. She is also fluent in Spanish. Ask me about California government, education clinic (YELP), disability rights, local museums.
Ned Herrington
Ned Herrington is a third-year law student at Stanford. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Law and Policy Review and a member of the Housing Pro-Bono Project. 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, abundance, impact litigation, aspiring to work in the federal government (HUD for me).
Ayo Idowu
Ayo Idowu is a 3L 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. Ayo spent her first summer at Hughes Socol and her second summer at Miller Shakman and Cook County PD.
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). She spent her 1L summer at Senate Judiciary Committee (minority) and her 2L summer at Brown Goldstein Levy and Wigdor. Ask me about: plaintiffs' law, civil rights work, housing law.
Faith Jeffers
Faith is a 3L from North Carolina interested in public defense and immigration law. She transferred to SLS after completing 1L at UC Law San Francisco. Before law school, she received a master's degree in English with a research focus on law and literature. Faith spent her 1L summer at the Habeas Corpus Resource Center in SF, which represents low-income clients on California's death row, and her 2L summer at the Legal Aid Society in the Criminal Defense Practice in Manhattan. At SLS, she has been involved in the Immigrants' Rights Clinic, National Lawyers Guild, Prisoner Legal Services Pro Bono Project, Social Security Disability Pro Bono Project, Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties, and Stanford Law Review. Ask me about public defense, immigration, and "crimmigration.”
Andrea Jimenez Flores
Andrea was born in Mexico and raised in Utah. She is interested in pursuing civil rights litigation through a movement lawyering perspective. 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 served as Co-President of SLLSA, a Public Interest Chair of FLI, a Senior Editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, an Executive Board Member of SIHRLA, and a Co-Director of the Workers’ Rights Pro Bono Project. Additionally, she works as a Coordinator for Professor Lucas Guttentag’s Immigration Policy Tracking Project. Andrea spent her summers at MALDEF and the ACLU, working to promote civil rights, immigrants’ rights, and racial justice. 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, nonprofit work, and surviving law school.
Yana Kalmyka
Yana is a 3L from Brooklyn. After graduating from Cornell with a degree in Labor Relations, Yana spent 5 years as a union organizer, supporting workers in Illinois and Texas organizing on the job and in the community for workplace and environmental justice. At SLS, Yana helps lead the National Lawyers' Guild and the Workers' Rights Pro Bono and is a former co-leader of the Stanford Prison Abolition and Resources Coalition. Yana spent her 1L summer at union-side labor law firm Weinberg, Roger & Rosenfeld in the East Bay and her 2L summer at Altshuler Berzon, a union-side labor and public interest firm in San Francisco. Ask me about: labor unions, movement lawyering, organizing the south, and being FLI in PI.
Sierra Maciorowski
From Santa Rosa, California, Sierra graduated in 2020 from Stanford University with degrees in Human Biology and English, and now continues to accumulate degrees with a JD/MS in Environment and Resources. She spent two years 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. As a 2L, Sierra worked in the Environmental Law Clinic and served as Graduate Public Service Fellow through the Haas Center for Public Service, co-led the TGI and SSDP Pro Bono Projects, and worked for the Stanford Environmental Law Journal as a Submissions Editor and Managing Editor. She also ran Shaking the Foundations, SLS's progressive lawyering and public interest law conference, and plans to do an Alternative Spring Break trip every year (so far: San Jose and Detroit). She serves as co-president of the Disabled Law Students Association/DAMNS and on the board of several progressive organizations, including NLG. Sierra spent her 1L summer at Communities for a Better Environment in Richmond, CA as a Partnerships for Climate Justice in the Bay Fellow, and her 2L summer at Earthjustice's California Regional Office in San Francisco. In her rare free time, she enjoys baking and cooking for friends, seeking peace among the redwoods, and exploring sci-fi/fantasy media. Ask me about: environmental justice, movement lawyering, and disability at SLS!
Heeral McGhee
Heeral is a 3L, originally from Georgia, who spent his first summer at the Texas Civil Rights Project and his 2L summer at the NYC Exoneration Project.
David Millman
David is from Richmond, VA who has been focused on state and local government, the housing crisis, and anti-sexual violence. Before Stanford, he graduated from Dartmouth College and completed a MSc at the London School of Economics. At Stanford, David is the student co-director of both the Campus Survivors Pro Bono and the Housing Pro Bono projects, helping both vulnerable students and tenants navigate complex legal systems. He recently started and leads a policy initiative in the Campus Survivors Project which has been working to write and pass state legislation in California to better support student survivors of sexual violence. He interned at the San Francisco City Attorney's office (land use team) in his 1L summer, and is splitting his 2L summer between Klein Hornig, an affordable housing PPI firm, and the Office of the Virginia Governor (Legal Counsel). He is in the Community Law Clinic (CLC) for his 2L spring as a certified student attorney, arguing SSI cases, drafting motions, and fighting evictions. He loves to act on stage, appearing in the law school’s student-run MuSLSical! Ask me about ... state and local government, civil rights, housing, legislation & policy, anti-sexual violence, MuSLSical, environment, voting rights, and legal aid!
Madeline Noh
Madeline is a 3L who aspires to advocate for civil rights and racial justice. Drawn to a range of intersectional issues, her legal interests include criminal legal reform, LGBTQ+ advocacy, health access, workers’ rights, and consumer protection. At SLS, she is involved with various public interest oriented organizations and serves as an editor of the Stanford Law Review. Prior to law school, she worked in the public health field and received an AB and MPH from Brown University. 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. Her 2L summer she was at NAACP LDF. Ask me about: civil rights litigation, plaintiff’s law, criminal legal reform, interdisciplinary research. Ask me about: civil rights, connections across public interest legal areas.
Mohamed Nur
Mohamed Nur is a 3L from Portland, Maine, whose interests include democracy reform, immigration, and broader civil rights advocacy. He graduated from Bowdoin College with a B.A. in Government and Legal Studies and Africana Studies. Before law school, he worked for several years as a grassroots organizer, facilitator, policy advocate, and philanthropic grantmaker. He spent his 1L summer at the Brennan Center for Justice and his 2L summer with the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. At Stanford Law School, Mohamed served as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties and held leadership roles in the Muslim Law Students Association and the Stanford Immigrant and Human Rights Law Association, among other student organizations. He was a student attorney with the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic. Outside of school, Mohamed enjoys cooking, playing basketball, and spending time with friends and family. Ask me about: Election law & voting rights, immigration, movement lawyering, and civil rights.
Krishna Pathak
Krishna is from Indianapolis, Indiana, and studied Public Policy at Indiana University. Before SLS, he spent five years in Washington, D.C. working on national security and foreign relations in the U.S. House of Representatives and at The White House. He supported Members of Congress and senior U.S. officials on foreign economic, technology, and security policy; directly engaged in bilateral diplomacy with foreign governments; and traveled to support congressional and presidential visits overseas. He spent his 1L summer at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. In 2L, he served as co-President of Stanford Law Association and participated in the Criminal Prosecution Clinic. You can probably find him absconding to classical, opera, and ballet shows at Bing Concert Hall. Ask me about: government service (generally); the tangled mess of law and policy; national security and foreign relations; how to think about public interest in the chaos of the present times; how law school is going for you; anything else!
Anisha Reddy
Anisha is a 3L from Charlotte, North Carolina who is passionate about immigration justice, workers’ rights, and building power in marginalized communities. She graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in Public Policy Studies. Before law school, she worked as a union organizer in South Florida for AFSCME Council 79. At Stanford, Anisha spent her first summer at Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman, and Wasow, a plaintiffs-side workers’ rights and civil rights firm in Berkeley, CA. She spent her second summer at Bredhoff and Kaiser, a labor law firm in Washington, DC. Anisha is also involved in the Stanford Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, Workers’ Rights Pro Bono Project, National Lawyers’ Guild, SIHRLA, and MESALSA. In her free time, Anisha loves to explore the coffee shops, restaurants, and museums of the Bay Area and watch her favorite artists in concert. Ask me about immigrants’ rights, labor, and employment law, and aw and organizing work.
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. She spent her 2L summer at Federal Public Defender - Western District of Washington. Ask me about: prisoner’s rights, public defense, prison abolition, holistic defense.
Blessing Roland-Magaji
Blessing is a 3L who grew up in Dublin Ireland, and Arlington Texas. They graduated from Scripps College with a degree in Human Biology and Politics and worked for UndocuBlack and the Black LGBTQ+ Project before law school. During 2L they were in leadership for the Immigration and TGIP pro bono projects, SIHRLA, BLSA, FLI and CRCL. They spent 1L summer working in disability law with the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley and 2L summer working in immigration law at Oasis Legal Services. Ask me about: immigration law, disability and mental health law, direct services.
Shreeya Singh
Shreeya Singh was born in India and grew up in Florida, and she came to SLS after studying public policy and global governance at Oxford, with the hope of learning how to use the law to make policy more equitable and humane. She spent her 1L summer as a pro bono fellow at Akin Gump, splitting her time with the criminal division at EDNY, and her 2L summer working on voting rights issues in the political law group at Elias Law Group. After graduating, she will be clerking for the Honorable Judge Victor Bolden on the District of Connecticut.
Mati Zeff
Mati is a 3L at SLS, originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Before law school, he researched drug pricing reform at UC College of the Law San Francisco and then got a vanity master's in philosophy and public policy. He split his 1L summer between the Law, Environment & Animals Program at Yale Law School and the Pharmaceutical Policy Lab at LSE Law School, and spent his 2L summer with Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, focusing on employment discrimination, sexual violence in the workplace, and pro bono compassionate release work. After graduation, Mati will clerk for Judge Gerald McHugh of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Ask me about: private public interest firms, criminal defense, post-conviction litigation, plaintiff-side and PPI recruiting, employment discrimination, and civil rights.
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.