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Equal Justice Works Across America
A state-by-state, point-and-click roster of Members and Fellows
Current Fellows and Alumni Profiles
Michael Haber: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2005
Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A
School: Fordham University School of Law
Mike Haber works with Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A?s Community Economic Development(CED) Unit. The CED Unit is counsel to numerous community groups in North and East Brooklyn. It has helped these groups develop over 1,000 units of affordable housing with the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC).
Maura Hagen: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2010
Legal Services of South Central Michigan
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Cara Hallmon: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2002
Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association, Inc.
School: Georgetown University Law Center
Sponsors: Florida Bar Foundation; Greenberg Traurig, LLP;, Orange County Bar Association Foundation
Cara Hallmon works with pregnant and parenting teenagers in Orange County, Florida. Her project grew from the observations of staff attorneys at the Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association that a significant number of young women come to Legal Aid for help with serious legal issues stemming from uninformed decisions made as teenage mothers. In response, this project encourages an early relationship between client and attorney, providing representation, advice, legal education and outreach to teen parents in Orange County.
Bethany Hamilton: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2009
Legal Assistance of Western New York
School: University of Pittsburgh School of Law
At Legal Assistance of Western NY, my position is multifaceted. I work on civil cases related to poverty law, whilst building a re-entry clinic focused primarily on employment law issues, and also running the Law Students in Action Project. The Law Students in Action Project recruits law student from through the country to intern in partner public interest office throughout Western NY.
Fallon Hamilton: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2010
Lone Star Legal Aid
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Fallon Hamilton: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2010
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Virginia Hamner: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2006
Florida Institutional Legal Services, Inc.
School: University of Florida Levin College of Law
Virginia is conducting an outreach, education and advocacy project to address the needs of women incarcerated throughout Florida with host organization Florida Institutional Legal Services (FILS). Through direct contact with women prisoners, Virginia is: documenting the effects that the security, mental health, medical and education systems designed around the needs of men are having on incarcerated women; creating materials to empower them to become advocates for their rights and make their voices heard; and exploring trends that may lead to systemic challenges of prison policies. FILS, a statewide legal services program providing holistic advocacy to institutionalized persons with compelling civil rights claims, advocates for broad improvements in prison conditions.
Karla Hampton: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2004
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
School: University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
Karla Hampton is hosted by the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia (?Legal Aid?). Over the last 70 years, tens of thousands of the District?s neediest residents have been served by Legal Aid. Legal Aid?s experience in the areas of public benefits, systemic advocacy, and law reform provides a rich environment in which to implement Karla?s project.
Greta Hansen: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2007
ACLU of Northern California
School: University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
I represent students of color who are denied equal educational opportunities through discriminatory school discipline and the over-policing of schools. In schools across California, students of color are suspended and expelled at significantly greater rates than their peers, and often are disproportionately targeted by campus police officers. In order to reduce these disparities, I conduct impact litigation and other advocacy efforts that will increase the protections afforded to students subject to discriminatory practices.
Andrew Hanson: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2001
Midwest Environmental Advocates
School: Lewis and Clark, Northwestern School of Law
Andrew Hanson helped small Midwestern communities and family farms fight the water pollution and economic devastation caused by the siting and operation of large factory farms. A native of the Midwest, Andrew grew up in South Haven, Michigan, a small tourist and agricultural town located on the shore of Lake Michigan. Proximity to the lake gave Andrew an understanding of the central role that water quality plays in the economies of small towns and the havoc caused when pollution goes unchecked.
Kelly Haragan: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2003
Environmental Integrity Project
School: University of Texas School of Law
Kelly Haragan works with the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) in Washington, DC. EIP works to safeguard federal environmental laws by improving the quality of federal and state enforcement and permitting and by protecting those programs from political and corporate interference. Kelly addresses loopholes in federal and state air laws that have allowed chemical and petrochemical industries to repeatedly emit far more pollution than authorized by their permits.
Joseph Hardgrave: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2009
Montana Legal Services Association
School: Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center
The bulk of the Indian Law Fellow’s duties will be to assist low-income Native clients with Indian law issues. Much of Montana Indian Country is located in remote areas where access to legal assistance is virtually non-existent. Because of the large geographic size of the state and the relatively small number of MLSA attorneys, the Indian Law Project is designed to support MLSA and to serve these Native clients.
Amber Harding: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2003
Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless
School: Georgetown University Law Center
Amber Harding advocates on behalf of homeless or nearly homeless residents of DC who face barriers to achieving stable housing as a result of mental disabilities. Amber works to: (1) ensure equitable treatment of persons with mental disabilities in shelters and public and subsidized housing through legal representation; (2) educate clients about their housing rights and empower them to advocate on their own behalf; and (3) enact systemic changes in the shelter and low-income housing systems through education, litigation and legislation. Persons with disabilities often face insurmountable obstacles to obtaining a safe place to sleep in DC.
Marisol Haro: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2008
Public Counsel
School: University of Southern California Law School
The Adoptions Project offers legal representation to people adopting children out of the L. A. County foster care system.
Sheryl Harris: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2000
Employment Law Center, Legal Aid Society of San Francisco
School: New York University School of Law
Sheryl Harris launched the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Workers’ Rights Project at her host organization. Her project assisted low-income workers to challenge discrimination they face at work on the basis of gender and sexual orientation. Following on the heels of the passage of new legislation in California adding sexual orientation to the employment and housing anti-discrimination provisions, the project sought to educate and empower workers with tools to invoke their rights under these laws.
Lindsay Harris: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2010
Tahirih Justice Center
School: University of California at Berkeley School of Law
My project will empower African immigrant women survivors of gender-based violence in Washington D. C. , Virginia, and Maryland, to seek immigration relief through providing culturally sensitive legal services and outreach.
Cori Hash: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2004
Office of Kentucky Legal Services Programs
School: University of Texas School of Law
Cori Hash works with the Office of Kentucky Legal Services Programs (OKLSP) in Lexington to address the legal needs of the growing immigrant population in the state of Kentucky. The OKLSP is a small organization that acts in partnership with local legal services programs to address the needs of low income Kentuckians that cannot be served by typical legal service providers. Additionally, it advocates for policy reform and brings high impact legal cases on behalf of underserved populations.
Elizabeth Hayes: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2009
Montana Legal Services Association
School: The University of Montana School of Law
I am working with Montana Legal Services Association's Housing Law Unit to address the housing issues of Montana’s low-income population. I will provide training and increase involvement from Montana's law students and pro bono attorneys. I will also provide direct services to MLSA’s housing clients, by giving legal advice through MLSA’s Helpline; working with pro se clients through MLSA’s Self-Help Law Project; and directly representing clients in housing cases.
Crisanne Hazen: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2006
Legal Advocates for Children and Youth
School: University of California at Davis King Hall School of Law
Crisanne Hazen works at Legal Advocates for Children and Youth (LACY), providing outreach and advocacy to pregnant and parenting teens facing a variety of family law issues. She is developing a legal education curriculum to present at six partner high schools. She works directly with youth, conducting interactive seminars on topics such as child support, child custody, visitation, statutory rape, paternity, restraining orders and government benefits.
Ilizabeth Hempstead: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2000
Legal Momentum
School: New York University School of Law
Ilizabeth used litigation, legislative advocacy and public education to expand opportunities for nontraditional employment and job training for low-income women. .
Carrie Henrichsen: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2008
Access to Justice
School: University of South Dakota
The central mission of Access to Justice is to promote equal access to justice for all citizens of the State of SD. Access to Justice coordinates pro bono lawyers to assist poor citizens with their legal problems, helps insure compliance with every lawyer's ethical obligation to never reject the cause of the defenseless or oppressed, and improves the delivery of legal services to the poor. Read more
Kristen Henry: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2007
Equal Justice Foundation
School: The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law
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Kristen Henry: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2008
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Desiree Hensley: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2004
Bread for the City & Zaccheus Free Clinic
School: Georgetown University Law Center
Desiree Hensley works at Bread for the City, a Washington, D. C. not-for-profit organization that provides free food and clothing, as well as free medical, social, and legal services to low-income individuals throughout the city.
Maria Hernandez: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2008
South Jersey Legal Services, Inc.
School: Rutgers - The State University School of Law, Camden
In collaboration with the Education Representation Project at South Jersey Legal Services, Inc. , my project will ensure that Spanish-speaking children in Camden, NJ receive appropriate educational services. My project focuses primarily on assisting children who are classified with a learning disability, or are at risk of classification.
Tonya Herring: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2009
Montana Legal Services Association
School: Vermont Law School
I work with the Montana Legal Services Association (MLSA) Housing Specialist to address the housing issues of Montana’s low-income population. Some of my time is spent providing direct services to MLSA’s housing clients. These services include giving legal advice through MLSA’s Helpline; working with pro se clients through MLSA’s Self-Help Law Project; and directly representing clients in housing cases.
Brooke Heymach: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2003
Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County
School: University of California-Hastings College of the Law
Brooke Heymach works on the Children’s Health Education, Representation and Outreach Project at The Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County. Her project responds to a basic need of children with disabilities and children of the working poor in San Mateo County: access to healthcare. The Children's HERO Project uses four strategies to enforce the right to healthcare: individual representation, community education, systemic advocacy and litigation.
Katherine Higgins: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2009
Legal Assistance of Western New York
School: Cornell Law School
I am working in the Ithaca office of Legal Assistance of Western New York (LAWNY), an LSC-funded civil legal services provider. Half of my time is spent assisting low-income clients in uncontested divorce matters and in prisoner reentry issues. The other half of my time consists of co-administering the Law Students in Action Project (LSAP), where we recruit law students to volunteer their time at local legal service offices, both during the academic term and during the summer months.
Shawn Highland: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2001
Ohio State Legal Services Association
School: Georgetown University Law Center
Shawn Highland worked with Ohio State Legal Services Association, based in Columbus, to empower parents of disabled children in rural Appalachian Ohio to effectively advocate for their children's educational needs. During the first year of her fellowship, Shawn discovered that besides the expected lack of special education resources in southeastern Ohio, the biggest obstacle to disabled children receiving effective special education services was the lack of knowledge about what the law required and the policy behind that law. In an effort to alleviate this problem, Shawn created informational posters and educational pamphlets, wrote letters to all the local newspapers and disseminated a monthly newsletter to inform parents of disabled children about their rights.
Frank Hill: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2009
Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago
School: Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology
The Home Ownership Preservation Project (HOPP) of the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago (LAF) represents homeowners facing the loss of their homes. HOPP also files affirmative claims against predatory brokers and lenders and files quiet title actions challenging foreclosure rescue fraud. Many of HOPP’s cases involve homeowners who have been victimized by predatory lending; as a result, HOPP is also involved at the policy level seeking better consumer protection laws.
Lillian Hirales: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2001
Florida Legal Services
School: Northeastern University School of Law
Lillian Hirales, a native of Calipatria, California, and the daughter of a farmworker father, personally recognized the critical need within the farmworker community for adequate legal representation and advocacy at both the state and national levels. Before attending law school, Lillian worked as a policy analyst for the National Council of La Raza in Washington, DC, where she was responsible for monitoring legislative actions affecting farmworkers and their families. As an Equal Justice Works Fellow, Lillian worked to address the rampant violations of minimum wage and farmworker protective laws by major citrus employers in Florida.
Laila Hlass: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2010
Loyola Law Clinic
School: Columbia Law School
I will be providing legal advocacy to particularly vulnerable immigrant populations in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. My focus will be on children, survivors of violence and torture, and detained immigrants who are in deportation proceedings. .
Roxanne Hoegger: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2002
Bay Area Legal Aid
School: University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
Despite the prevalence of dating violence, there are significant obstacles to teens protecting themselves and obtaining California’s legal remedies designed for adult victims. Based on youth’s lack of access to the legal system, Roxanne’s project focuses on delivering holistic legal services to empower young victims to end violence in their romantic relationships. Through home visits, individualized case plans and community outreach, the project makes an adult legal system more accessible to teens.
Al Hofeld: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2000
Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago
School: Northwestern University School of Law
Al Hofeld worked with residents of an inner-city neighborhood to establish a community development credit union. Check-cashing outlets, pay-day loan outfits, rent-to-own stores, and to some extent conventional banks constitute significant barriers to the economic independence and sustainability of inner-city communities in Chicago and elsewhere. The credit union aimed to provide a resident-driven alternative and meet some of the community’s needs for affordable financial services and credit that will enable members to build their lives and community.
Georgette Hogan: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2000
California Indian Legal Services
School: Stanford University Law School
Georgette Hogan helped rural disabled and elderly American Indians receive much-needed Social Security Benefits. While located in the Bishop, California field office of her host organization, Georgette's project served a five-county area on the eastern slope of the Sierra Mountains. Through a public information campaign and individual application assistance program, she helped provide real access to these benefits.
Jennifer Hollis: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2001
Michigan Migrant Legal Assistance Program
School: Northeastern University School of Law
Jennifer Hollis provided immigration law assistance to migrant farmworkers and their families. Jennifer’s project also aimed to expand her host organization’s outreach to include an increasingly marginalized and exploited population of indigenous farmworkers. She worked to creatively target impact-related violations including the rampant and unscrupulous notario abuse plaguing immigrant populations throughout Michigan.
Mary Holper: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2003
Capital Area Immigrants Rights Coalition
School: Boston College Law School
Mary Holper works at the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition in Washington, DC. The CAIR Coalition unites community groups, pro bono attorneys, volunteers and immigrants to work for a fair and humane immigration policy. The main focus of Mary's project is to provide legal assistance to non-citizens who are detained by the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS), formerly the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).
Linda Hoos: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2001
Anti-Defamation League
School: University of Southern California Law School
Linda Hoos’ fellowship straddled both the education and legal departments of her host organization. Through presentations and literature, her project educated students, parents and administrators in securing the civil rights of students in their local school districts. She primarily served communities in Southern California, but the range of her project extended throughout Northern California, Arizona, Nevada, Washington and New Mexico.
Ann Horowitz Cook: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2009
Legal Aid and Defender Association
School: Duquesne University School of Law
Legal Aid and Defender Association Fellows maintain a caseload of domestic cases, as well as institute a pro bono clinic, Continuum of Domestic Legal Services (CDLS), for low income clients that will ultimately be provided by pro bono attorneys. CDLS will target clients involved in domestic cases, especially those individuals who experienced domestic violence in their marital relationships and/or homes. .
Sarah Hoskinson: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2009
The Homeless Advocacy Project, a Volunteer Legal Services Program of the Bar Association of San Francisco
School: University of California at Berkeley School of Law
The Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP) utilizes staff attorneys, legal advocates and social workers to help people who are homeless (and those at imminent risk of homelessness) resolve their legal issues and access vital resources. HAP clients are an especially vulnerable population, as the majority of them have significant mental health disabilities. My position involves enhancing HAP's capacity to provide legal services by coordinating new pro bono components of its Supplemental Security Income and Landlord-Tenant Projects.
Joshua Houy: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2009
Access to Justice
School: University of South Dakota School of Law
Eighty-five percent of the cases referred to us are family law cases. Too often, these cases involve those, including children, who have been physically or sexually abused. Our service area includes the entire State of South Dakota.
Brian Howe: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2010
Legal Aid Society of Southwest Ohio
School: University of Cincinnati College of Law
This project would serve clients in six rural counties surrounding Cincinnati in southwest Ohio. Despite over 6,000 foreclosures reported in these counties in 2008 alone and skyrocketing unemployment, the legal problems of low income residents remain mostly under the radar for most legal assistance and community groups. The goal of this project will be to focus assistance in prevention of loss of housing and in the second year on community development to reduce poverty.
Amy Howell: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2002
Southern Juvenile Defender Center at Emory Law School
School: Temple University, James E. Beasley School of Law
Amy Howell’s project focuses on achieving policy and systemic improvements for special needs youth involved with the juvenile or criminal justice system. The United States General Accounting Office recently issued a report on the large numbers of youth entering the juvenile justice system due to manifestations of their special needs and/or as a desperate attempt to access appropriate services. Amy states, "Many juvenile justice systems are overwhelmed because they were not funded or structured to serve a large population with specialized treatment needs.
Tammy Howze: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2009
Legal Aid and Defender Association
School: Michigan State University College of Law
My project focuses on mortgage foreclosure prevention litigation and advocacy in Michigan. We work with lenders and housing counseling agencies on obtaining forbearances, loan modications and other foreclosure prevention efforts. Among other issues our litigation and negotiations involve predatory lending, house flipping and foreclosure rescue scams.
Dennis Hsieh: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2008
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County
School: Yale Law School
Sponsors: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Greenberg Traurig Fellowship Foundation
I am setting up two medical-legal community partnerships for low-income and indigent patients in Los Angeles. Along with direct services, I will also investigate the effects of the closure of a local hospital and work to bring healthcare resources back into this community. The partnership will improve patient health by addressing issues such as housing conditions, access to public benefits, immigration and special education.
Caroline Hsu: Equal Justice Works Fellowships, 2009
The Legal Aid Society of New York
School: Fordham University School of Law
The purpose of this project is to advocate for prisoners with disabilities to increase their access to the educational, vocational, and pre-release prison programs and services that they need to successfully reenter society. I hope to impress upon prison officials and disability advocates that meaningful reentry must begin during incarceration. .
Susan Huang: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2010
Public Counsel
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Shalanda Hudson: AmeriCorps Legal Fellowships, 2008
Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project
School: University of Mississippi School of Law
Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project (MVLP) is a joint venture of the Mississippi Bar and Legal Service entities in Mississippi. MVLP recruits, supervises and assists volunteer attorneys in their provision of pro bono legal services. MVLP assists indigent Mississippians through various legal clinics, a free advice hotline and direct legal representation.
Gretchen Hunt: Equal Justice Works Fellow, 2000
Center for Woman and Families
School: Boston College Law School
Returning to her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, Gretchen Hunt teamed up with The Center for Women and Families, an organization devoted to combating domestic violence, sexual assault and women’s economic inequality. During law school, Gretchen worked on issues of violence against women with the United Nations Development Fund for Women in Ecuador, the Women’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch and the Immigration Unit of Greater Boston Legal Services in Boston, Massachusetts. These opportunities gave her insight into the struggles faced by immigrant women to achieve full recognition of their own human rights and inspired her to enter the field of immigration law.