Kaufman Public Interest Fellowships Awarded at the Law School

Twenty-nine recent graduates have been named Irving R. Kaufman Public Interest Fellowships by the Law School.

The fellowships are awarded in recognition and support of individuals who have shown exceptional promise for careers in public interest law.

The following is a list of the fellows:

Kaufman Public Interest Fellows

Elizabeth Barclay, Class of '98, will spend a month at the Border Environmental Cooperation Commission or a Mexico-based environmental advocacy group before looking for a job working on environmental issues in Sacramento.

Yellow Light Breen, Class of '96, is serving as assistant counsel to Gov. Angus S. King Jr. in Augusta, Maine.

Jennifer Y. Buffaloe, Class of '98, expects to take a position with the Public Defender's Association in Seattle after ending a district court clerkship.

Amy E. Copperman, Class of '98, has been awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work on affordable housing issues with the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute.

Scott Cummings, Class of '98, has been awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work at the Public Counsel in Los Angeles on community-based employment creation in distressed communities.

Stephanie Jill Gendell, Class of '98, is looking for a position working with foster children and children's issues in New York City.

Michelle Gueraldi, Class of '98, will be working at Project Legal, a human rights legal defense center, in Rio de Janeiro.

Tamara Jezic, Class of '98, will be working at the Center for Economic and Social Rights in Quito, Ecuador.

Shannon Liss, Class of '96, intends to establish a nonprofit organization in Boston, which will provide employment-related legal assistance to women.

Brendan Lynch, Class of '98, has received an Independence Foundation fellowship to work with Community Legal Services of Philadelphia representing Medicaid recipients.

Amanda Maisels, Class of '97, will represent clients with HIV and AIDS in employment discrimination cases as a Skadden Fellow at the Whitman Walker Clinic Legal Services Department in Washington, D.C.

Amy Mayer, Class of '96, works as a staff attorney in the East Side SRO project at MFY Legal Services in New York City. The project represents residents of single room occupancy hotels in housing-related matters.

Meg Obenauf, Class of '98, has accepted a two-year Americorps position at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, and will be working exclusively with victims of domestic violence on the island of Maui.

Christiana Ochoa, Class of '98, has been invited to teach a course in international human rights law at the Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, Columbia, while working as a research and teaching assistant.

Melissa A. Rodgers, Class of '98, hopes to work at the Employment Law Center of the Legal Aid Society of San Francisco, where she would like to protect undocumented immigrants from workplace exploitation.

Michael Rosenbaum, Class of '98, intends to spend the next year starting a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing businesses interested in hiring and training unskilled individuals to Baltimore City.

Daniel Schorr, Class of '98, will be working as an assistant district attorney at the Queens County District Attorney's office in New York City.

Tamatha Richardson Schreinert, Class of '98, is seeking work as a public defender.

Susan Snyder, Class of '97, has received an Independence Foundation fellowship to work as a staff attorney at the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia.

Lauren Song, Class of '97, is a Soros Justice Fellow implementing a battered immigrant woman's advocacy project at the Refugee Law Center in Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Jacquelyn Steadman, Class of '98, has been awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work with homeless, runaway, and marginally housed youth at Covenant House, New Jersey.

Elizabeth Wilcox, Class of '98, will be working as an honors attorney at the U.S. Treasury Department.

Elizabeth Yap, Class of '97, has been awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work at the Education Law Center in New Jersey.

Renewed Fellows

The following is a list of renewed fellows:

Maria Henderson, Class of '97, works as an assistant district attorney at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.

Philip Hwang, Class of '96, works as a staff attorney at Community Legal Services in San Jose, Calif., in the Economic Survey and Health Units.

Cathleen Price, Class of '96, works as staff attorney at the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, a nonprofit organization committed to providing appellate representation to indigent people on death row.

Kevin Reuther, Class of '95, is an NAPIL fellow working at the Housing Discrimination Law Project at the Legal Aid Society of Minneapolis.

Brad Sears, Class of '95, established the HIV Legal Checkup Project in Los Angeles. He plans to expand the project over the coming year by training volunteer attorneys and law student interns to run outreach clinics.

Susan Vickers, Class of '97, works at the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and expects to secure contract work in the area of child protective services over the coming year.