Lucy Eagling works with Advocates for Children of New York (AFC).  Since 1971, AFC has advocated for children and youth who are at greatest risk of school-based discrimination and academic failure due to poverty, race, ethnicity, disability, involvement in the child welfare or juvenile justice systems, immigration status and homelessness.  AFC combines direct legal services and advice, public education, public policy, impact litigation and capacity building to foster the goal of equity, access and quality in New York City’s public school system.  

Ellen Eardley works on the Education Project at the National Women’s Law Center.  Through litigation and policy initiatives, the National Women’s Law Center strives to improve the lives of women and their families in the areas of employment, health, family economic security and education.  The Center has been at the forefront of advocacy for Title IX.  

Karolyn Eilers works on the Immigrant Anti-Fraud Project, a special unit of Heartland Alliance’s Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center (“MIHRC”).  The Project offers a new, preventative approach to combating the problem of unscrupulous individuals, known as notarios in the Hispanic community, who provide immigration legal advice and assistance without any knowledge of the law and its complexity.  Karolyn not only provides direct immigration legal representation to immigrant victims of notary fraud, but she also provides direct outreach to vulnerable immigrant communities and their service providers in Chicago and the outlying suburbs.  

James Eldridge practiced community economic development (CED) law in the historic industrial mill city of Lowell, Massachusetts.  James grew up just fifteen minutes outside Lowell, and he has been a strong public interest advocate in the fields of law and politics in Massachusetts since he graduated college.  During law school, he served for two years as president of the Public Interest Law Foundations (PILF), the NAPIL-affiliated public interest student group.  

Myra Elgabry works on the Immigrants’ Rights Project, at Lawyers for Children, in New York City.  The project enforces the rights of immigrant children in foster care to obtain permanent legal residency through advocacy in family court and immigration court.  The project eliminates the risk of deportation of children to a country they are no longer familiar with, and ensures eligibility for education, employment, and social services when children “time-out” of foster care.  

Angela Elleman addressed the legal needs of mentally retarded persons under sentence of death in Georgia.  Angela, who holds a Master of Divinity as well as a law degree, cultivated her concern for impoverished and vulnerable people while living with homeless women during college.  Angela's fellowship allowed her to use her legal skills to assist mentally retarded inmates in Georgia.  

My project provides appellate representation for low-income New Yorkers and their children seeking to appeal from Family Court to – or defending against appeal in – the New York Appellate Division.  Through such selective appeals, we aim to establish valuable legal precedent and a “culture of appeals” to better access legislative protections.  After gaining trial-level experience in Family Court, I will represent domestic violence victims on appeal, help train other trial and appellate attorneys, and establish an appellate counsel electronic briefbank.  

The Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project provides pro bono legal services to people of limited means in Mississippi who would not otherwise have access to a lawyer through referrals to volunteer attorneys.  .  

For children with delayed development, providing appropriate services as early as possible has the greatest impact.  Families have rights to individualized plans for services to ameliorate the child's developmental problems.  Despite available funding, D.  

Pablo Escobar works as an education rights advocate representing children of low-income families with learning disabilities in the Los Angeles area.  California guarantees every child’s right to a free and appropriate public education.  When children have learning disabilities such as ADHD and dyslexia, school districts are required to provide them with appropriate accommodations to ensure that they can fully benefit from their schooling.