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Our Fellows
Meet the brilliant, creative legal fellows driving high-impact systemic change to advance economic and social justice
Learn more about the Justice Catalyst Fellowship and the Jonathan W. Cuneo COSAL/Justice Catalyst Fellowship
Lily Bou
Lily Bou is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the Legal Collective Project, a new project sponsored by Civil Rights Corps, to support public interest lawyers establishing their own law practices and legal cooperatives.
Lydia Dal Nogare
Lydia Dal Nogare is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow, working at Upper Seven Law in Helena, Montana, where she will support ongoing litigation and identify additional opportunities for legal action to protect rights from state government overreach. Her project will utilize her organizing background to amplify the voices of those directly affected by harmful laws.
DaJonna Richardson
DaJonna Richardson is a 2024-2025 Jonathan W. Cuneo COSAL/Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Cuneo, Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP, which is a premier firm that arms consumers, workers and small businesses with tools for accountability against big businesses and cartels to challenge price-fixing, monopolization, mergers that reduce competition, and agreements between competitors that restrict supply or output.
Jason Taper
Jason Taper is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow, working with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) to use class action litigation to hold data brokers accountable.
Alyssa (Lee) Kennedy
Alyssa (Lee) Kennedy is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow working with the Legal Action Center to promote healthcare access and health equity for individuals with substance use disorders by combating discrimination in healthcare settings.
Vibha Kannan
Vibha Kannan is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project to support community-led organizing campaigns and aid immigrants in fighting the abusive practices of for-profit immigration bond companies through legislative advocacy and litigation under New York’s newly-enacted ban on electronic monitoring and unreasonable fees.
Olivia Fritz
Olivia Fritz is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, where she works to return due process rights to low-income people on parole by building litigation to ensure the appointment of counsel for individuals at their parole revocation hearings.
Leah Fessler
Leah Fessler is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at MacArthur Justice Center Missouri in St. Louis, where she will fight to end Missouri Department of Corrections’ discriminatory policies of denying access to all three medications for opioid use disorder in Missouri prisons.
Poonam Daryani
Poonam Daryani will be joining Pregnancy Justice, a legal advocacy organization that fights to ensure that people do not lose their rights because of their capacity for pregnancy or pregnancy outcome, with a focus on those most at risk of state control and criminalization.
Michelle Dahl
Michelle Dahl will join the National Police Accountability Project, where she will create a comprehensive resource hub and network to empower public defenders in developing civil rights litigation to address constitutional violations they see in their communities.
Andrea Ashburn
Andrea Ashburn is a Justice Catalyst Fellow at the New York Legal Assistance Group where they develop impact litigation lawsuits in the areas of consumer protection and tenants’ rights.
Ezra Ritchin
Ezra Ritchin is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow working with the Freedom Community Center and Dami Animashaun on targeted over-detention litigation, individual damages suits on behalf of survivors of state violence, and legal support for organizers fighting to close jails.
Natalie Cauley
Natalie Cauley is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the ACLU of Alaska to address the prison crisis happening in Alaska by creating and initiating an impact litigation campaign focused on the provision of medical and substance use treatment in state facilities.
Aaron Bryce Lee
Aaron Bryce Lee is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the Action Lab, partnering with labor-oriented organizations and coalitions in the tri-state area to provide organizing and legal support, hold collective action trainings, and coordinate physical and virtual space for intra- and inter-workplace collaboration between essential workers who lack access to institutional power and representation by long-established unions.
Henna Kaur Kaushal
Henna is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante in Mexico City, where Henna works to expose the exploitation of TN visa workers by US-based corporations and offer meaningful access to justice for TN workers who suffer labor rights abuses.
Karen Muñoz
Karen Muñoz is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow joining LatinoJustice PRLDEF where she will support detained people, families, and advocates fighting the jail system in two Texas counties with advocate-led litigation and a policy strategy that will ultimately free people.
Lee Tremblay
Lee Tremblay is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Legal Voice to strengthen resilience and resistance to anti-abortion organizing in Idaho by ensuring that people who can get pregnant—particularly those with disabilities—and caretakers of disabled people are less likely to be forced to engage with the legal system.
Sydney Speizman
Sydney Speizman is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow with EarthRights International supporting frontline communities seeking climate resilience and accountability for destructive oil & gas industry activities.
Sydney Zazzaro
Sydney Zazzaro is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Emery Celli Brinkerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel to represent sexual assault survivors who sue their assailants and negligent institutions under New York’s Adult Survivor’s Act, and will create survivor-favorable litigation results that will broaden survivors’ access to justice and help future advocates succeed moving forward.
Amelia Caramadre
Amelia Caramadre is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow working on access to medication for opioid use disorder within the carceral and rehab industrial complexes with Northeastern University’s Health in Justice Action Lab.
Yohannes Moore
Yohannes Moore is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow working to free the many people impacted by racism in the California criminal court system with the University of San Francisco School of Law Racial Justice Clinic.
Kathryn Koch
Kathryn Koch is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow building collaborative capacity for medical debt defense with Health Law Advocates.
Alessandra Stevens
Alessandra Stevens is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow combatting the labor abuse to deportation pipeline with Sur Legal Collaborative.
Abbie Starker
Abbie Starker is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow co-creating healing alternatives to the criminal legal system with the Center for Restorative Justice at Suffolk University.
Andrew Ntim
Andrew Ntim is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow pursuing litigation and policy strategies to fight police terror against people experiencing homelessness and living in poverty in California with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the SF Bay Area.
Juliette Jackson
Juliette Jackson is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow increasing access to services for underserved tribal communities in the West with Sacred Lands, Native Hands and the Center for Biological Diversity.
Joseph Niver
Joseph Niver is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow working to address systemic employment violations in the logistics industry with Make the Road New Jersey.
Chris Vu
Chris Vu is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow pursuing policy and litigation strategies for people with serious mental illnesses in jail or experiencing homelessness with Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy, and Innovation and Loyola’s Anti-Racism Center at LMU Loyola Law School.
Mustafa Isaac Filat
Mustafa Isaac Filat is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow protecting the data privacy of California's immigrant communities with Public Counsel.
Vishal Reddy
Vishal Reddy is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow building worker power with Local Progress.
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