Women’s Fall 2011 Law & OUTREACH Public Policy Fellowship Program

The Newsletter of the Women’s Law & Public Polic Fellowship Program GEORGE TOW N L AW

AnnA CARpEnTER Meet our 2011-2012 Anna is a clinical teaching fellow and supervising attorney at The Community Justice Project, a Women’s Law Fellows legal clinic at Georgetown Law. Previously, Anna provided direct representation to low-income clients his year we have fourteen Women’s Law as an attorney with the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer T ellows: seven Leadership and Advocacy Program where she worked in the HIV/AIDS Legal for Women in Africa (LAWA) ellows and Services Project and Immigration Law Project. She seven U.S. Law ellows. Our LAWA ellows helped low-income immigrant victims of violence obtain economic pursue a Master of Laws degree at Georgetown security and legal status in the United States and represented with an emphasis on gender studies and people living with HIV and AIDS in a range of civil law matters, human rights, while our U.S. ellows work in including public benefts, landlord/tenant, estate planning and Washington D.C. on gender equality issues. debt relief. In San Diego, Anna served as co-chair of the Women’s All of our ellows participate together in bi- Resource air, an event that provides legal, medical, and social weekly seminars, training and other events that services to hundreds of low-income and homeless women. Anna foster their professional development as lawyers received her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. committed to promoting gender equality and During law school, Anna participated in the Domestic Violence social justice. Clinic where she represented victims of violence in protection order cases. She interned with the Clark County Public Defender MARy AjOOT and the Rebecca Project for Human Rights. Mary comes to the LAWA Program from Uganda, where she spent Abby COOk-MACk 6 years at MI UMI-Uganda, an Abby is working at the National Partnership for international aid and development Women and amilies, where she is both a Harriet agency which seeks to reduce the Burg and Rita Charmatz Davidson ellow, working burden of poverty by securing basic to advance the rights of low-income women and rights for people living in remote women with disabilities. Abby graduated from Yale communities of Uganda. She has worked with University with a B.A. in History and distinction local communities to help them understand their in her major. ollowing graduation, she joined the rights and eradicate injustices such as domestic staff of then-New York State Senator Eric Schneiderman, where she violence and bride price/dowry. She uses a gender worked to advance policy changes to provide access to health care, and human rights approach to train stakeholders fair funding for New York City schools and a higher minimum wage. including health workers, police, teachers, and She also represented the Senator in coalitions with women’s groups young people to be more aware and to prevent across the state, working with them to advance women’s reproductive and respond to human rights violations. Mary health reforms in New York. In 2006, she was awarded a Coro received her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from ellowship in Public Affairs enabling her to work for the Innocence Makerere University and earned a Diploma in Project. Abby received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Legal Practice from the Law Development Centre Center. During her law career she participated in the Center for in Uganda. Mary is also a ord oundation ellow. Applied Legal Studies clinic, where she successfully represented Mary is writing her major LAWA research paper a woman seeking asylum. She also interned with the Civil Rights on domestic violence as a defense under criminal Division of the Department of Justice, the National Women’s Law law in Uganda. Center, Bread for the City and the Advancement Project. www.law.georgetown.edu/wlppfp ElizAbETH EnAkA AkO Kelley Hampton Elizabeth comes to the LAWA Program from Cameroon, Kelley works as a Technical where she was the frst woman in the Manyu Assistance Specialist with Break jurisdiction to become the Chief of Service for Judicial the Cycle, a national non- Affairs in the Legal Department. She also was the proft that educates, engages frst woman to hold her most recent position, Registrar- and empowers youth to end in-Chief at the High Court of ako, Buea. Elizabeth domestic and dating violence. attended the University of Yaounde, where she obtained Kelley facilitates both in-person her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree, as well as her “Licence en Droit” and web-based trainings, develops resource in English Private Law. Elizabeth is a member of the International materials and offers individual consultations to ederation of Women Lawyers ( IDA) Cameroon, and served as service providers nationwide on various aspects Executive Director of Women in Action, an organization that promotes of dating violence and the law. She also works gender equality by advocating against societal practices that hinder the to increase schools’ capacity to respond to growth and development of women. Throughout her career, Elizabeth dating and sexual violence. In 2007, Kelley was has consulted both nationally and internationally for the Organization an Education Pioneers ellow where she served for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA), a group as a law clerk for Prince George’s County that encourages development in sub-Saharan Africa. As an ardent Public School District in Maryland. She helped supporter of women’s rights, she also helps to raise awareness through revise a district-wide harassment and grievance the Global Voices for Women radio program. Elizabeth is writing her procedure for students, school faculty and major LAWA research paper on eliminating gender discrimination staff. Prior to earning her J.D. and M.A. in under Cameroon’s Nationality Code. Public Policy from Georgetown University, Kelley was a research assistant for the Center Sophia Gebrehiwot for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Sophia comes to the LAWA Program from Ethiopia, in the Africa Program. She traveled to both where she was the Training Coordinator at Eminence Vietnam and China as part of a delegation Social Entrepreneurs, a company that promotes the analyzing the expenditure of the President’s socio-economic development of Ethiopian society. Prior Emergency und for AIDS Relief (PEP AR). to this position Sophia worked at the University for Kelley has also written about many women’s Peace based in Addis Ababa, on the ‘Environmental rights issues such as the role of women in post- and Resource Issues as actors in African Conficts’ confict Rwanda and Sierra Leone and child project, which focused on Darfur. Through research on topics such marriage in Morocco. During law school, Kelley as internally displaced peoples and the role of gender in the Darfur participated in the Street Law Clinic where confict, Sophia assisted in the publication of the book, “Environment she taught residents of drug-rehabilitation and Confict in Africa: Refection on Darfur.” Sophia also taught at and transitional housing programs the legal Unity University in Ethiopia and worked as a project coordinator at concepts of landlord-tenant law and dispute African AIDS Initiative International, Inc., where she coordinated resolution in Maryland and Washington, DC. and implemented HIV/AIDS and human rights training programs for female university students. She also served as Gender and Human Toni Holness Rights Program Offcer with Action Aid Ethiopia leading grassroots Toni is working at The Women’s efforts to combat cultural practices harmful to women. Sophia also Collective and at the American successfully added women’s rights awareness to the local Police College Bar Association’s AIDS curriculum. Sophia received her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree Coordination Project, promoting from the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia, and earned a certifcate the rights of women living with in Human Rights Studies from the International Institute of Human HIV/AIDS. Toni received Rights in Strasbourg, rance. She is a member of the Ethiopian her B.A. from the University Women Lawyers Association, and an active volunteer for the Tesfa of Pennsylvania and her J.D. and M.A. in oundation, an organization that works to advance children’s education Economics from Temple University, where she in Ethiopia. Sophia is writing her major LAWA research paper on ways was a Rubin-Presser Public Interest Scholar. to provide comprehensive redress to victims of early marriage and rape (Continued on Page 3) in Ethiopia.

2 OUT EACH www.law.georgetown.edu/wlppfp Prior to law school, Toni was a fellow with the Anjela Jenkins Congressional Hunger Center where she worked with the Anjela is a Law Students for Reproductive Medical Legal Partnership of the Boston Medical Center Justice ellow at the National Latina assisting low-income families applying for public assistance. Institute for Reproductive Health. She She also worked with the Center for Community Change received her B.A. from Tulane University, advocating for national immigration reform. In 2008, with majors in International Relations, Toni was selected as an Ella Baker Legal Intern with the International Development, and Latin Center for Constitutional Rights where she worked on American Studies, as well as a minor in human rights and corporate accountability issues. Toni also German. Anjela received her J.D. and graduate degree interned with the Documentation Center of Cambodia, in political science from the University of Texas. During in Phnom Penh, supporting education and outreach law school, Anjela was a staff member of the Texas initiatives, and with the Inter-American Commission on International Law Journal and the Texas Hispanic Journal Human Rights where she reviewed and evaluated the for Law and Policy. Anjela was also a member of the merits of petitions made before the Commission that Chicano Hispanic Law Student Association, an advanced alleged state-sponsored torture. Toni also competed with student in the Human Rights Clinic, and a member of Temple’s National Trial Team and Jessup International Student Advisory Board of the William Wayne Justice Moot Court Team. As the Global Economic Justice Chair Center for Public Interest Law. She also volunteered as of Temple’s National Lawyers Guild Chapter, she organized a translator for American Gateways, worked at Texas events addressing international human rights and corporate RioGrande Legal Aid’s Telephone Access to Justice Project, accountability. Toni’s ellowship is made possible through and served as a pro bono law clerk at Catholic Charities generous funding from the ord oundation. of Central Texas, Immigration Legal Services. Anjela has lived on four continents and is fuent in Spanish. Amy Hsieh Amy is working at the International Kavinya Makau Community of Women Living with HIV/ Kavinya comes to the LAWA Program from AIDS and at the American Bar Association’s Kenya. She has spent the last four and a half AIDS Coordination Project, promoting years working for Urgent Action und-Africa, the rights of women living with HIV/ Africa’s only rapid response grant making AIDS. Amy received her B.A. in East Asian organization for women, whose strategic Studies from Barnard College of Columbia mission is to support and enhance women’s University. While at Barnard, she developed a passion for leadership, bring about justice and equity, health and human rights as she worked with the medically and create a society free of disruptive confict. Kavinya has underserved through her internship at the Center for worked with women in confict and post-confict in Burundi, Immigrant Health. Prior to law school, Amy was Program Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Coordinator at the NYU School of Medicine where she Leone, Uganda and Zimbabwe, addressing issues such as helped develop, implement, and evaluate training programs engendering transitional justice, promoting peace processes, that prepared health professionals to care for medically and analyzing the intersection between sexualized underserved communities. Concurrently, she earned her forms of violence and HIV/AIDS. Kavinya is a member Master in Public Administration from NYU, with a focus of the Law Society of Kenya and the Young Women’s on International Health Policy and Management. Amy Leadership Institute. She is an advisory board member of obtained her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, where she Akili Dada, an organization that seeks to empower young was awarded the Professor John A. Ronayne Memorial underprivileged African women by providing comprehensive Prize for Public Service and became a member of the scholarships to advance their education. Kavinya graduated Order of the Barristers. Amy interned at Human Rights from the University of Reading-UK, with a Bachelor of Watch as an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Laws degree, received a diploma in law from the Kenya ellow, where she conducted research on government School of Law and was admitted to the bar as an Advocate accountability for the HIV/AIDS epidemic among African of the High Court of Kenya. Kavinya is writing her major American women. Amy also worked to obtain asylum for a LAWA research paper on increasing and enhancing women’s gay youth from Kenya through her law school’s Safe Harbor political participation in Kenya. Project. Amy’s ellowship is made possible through generous funding from the ord oundation. (Continued on Page 4) www.law.georgetown.edu/wlppfp OUT EACH 3 Anna McClure Evelyn Ogochukwu Ebubechukwu Anna is working at the National Women’s Evelyn comes to the LAWA Program Law Center, where she is both a Harriet Burg from Nigeria, where she most recently and Rita Charmatz Davidson ellow, working worked as the Legal Offcer for the to advance the rights of low-income women Society for the Welfare of Women and women with disabilities. Anna received Prisoners. She completed her national a B.A. in Political Science from George youth service under the International Washington University and graduated magna ederation of Women Lawyers ( IDA) cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 2011. at Enugu State in Nigeria. Upon completion of her At Georgetown, Anna served on the boards of Law Students national service, she went into private legal practice for Reproductive Justice, the Women’s Legal Alliance and working to facilitate women’s rights through an the Equal Justice oundation. During law school, Anna NGO, specifcally in human rights education for worked with victims of disability discrimination cases at the secondary schools and rural and urban communities National Association of the Deaf. She also worked on class in the South-Eastern States of Nigeria. Evelyn also action age discrimination litigation while interning at AARP serves as the legal adviser and secretary to several oundation Litigation. While interning for the National women’s groups and organizations. Evelyn received Women’s Law Center, Anna worked on gender discrimination her Bachelor of Laws degree from Nnamdi Azikiwe issues in education and employment. She also participated University Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria, attended in Georgetown’s Institute for Public Representation the Nigerian Law School of Abuja and is a member Clinic, where she worked on gender-based employment of the Nigerian Bar. While at Georgetown, Evelyn is discrimination litigation. focusing her research on customary land inheritance and widowhood practices in Anambra State, Nigeria. Vera Nkwate Ngassa Vera comes to the LAWA Program from Luwam Zenebe Cameroon, where she has served alternately as Luwam comes to the LAWA Program a prosecutor and a judge for the past twenty-four from Ethiopia where, as a Gender years. Throughout her judicial career Vera has Offcer for World Vision Ethiopia, she worked to promote women’s rights, including prepared and conducted trainings, initiating legal and gender literacy programs workshops and seminars addressing and training grassroots advocates and policy the gaps in individual and community makers, such as mayors, traditional rulers and the judiciary. As change with regard to gender. Prior a judicial activist, Vera broke new ground to advance women’s to this, Luwam worked as a Justice Reform Program rights especially in the areas of women’s property rights Expert at the Tigray Bureau of Capacity Building in and spousal abuse. Part of her work is featured in the BBC Ethiopia. Through this work, Luwam identifed and International Award winning documentary “Sisters in Law.” tried to close the gap between law and practice in Vera has also taught at the University of Buea in Cameroon, the region, seeking to ensure justice for all. She also where she created the curriculum for “Women’s Human Rights served as an Administrative Tribunal Judge, where and Law,” a course she has been teaching for twelve years. she worked to facilitate uniform implementation Vera is a founding member of IDA Cameroon (International of Ethiopia’s labor laws and regulations. Luwam ederation of Women Lawyers), a member of the International obtained her Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Association of Women Judges, and founder of the Samaritan Mekelle University Law in Northern Ethiopia, where House of Empowerment, an association dedicated to rescue, she worked in the Legal Aid Clinic providing pro bono redress and relief for victims of gender-based violence and assistance to vulnerable groups, including women traffcking in persons. Vera obtained her “Licence en Droit” and children. Her fnal thesis was on the topic of the in English Private Law from the University of Yaoundé, rights and status of women and child refugees under Cameroon, in June 1985. She then trained as a Legal and Ethiopian law. Luwam is writing her major LAWA Judicial Offcer at the National School of Administration paper on post-divorce maintenance in Ethiopia. and Magistracy, where she earned a Post Graduate degree in Magistracy. Vera is writing her major LAWA research paper on women’s access to land in Cameroon as a human right.

4 OUT EACH www.law.georgetown.edu/wlppfp CULT VAT NG WOMEN’S R GHTS LEADERS hrough networking opportunities, professional development trainings, seminars and panels on hot-topics in women’s Tlegal issues, and other programming, WLPP P helps our ellows continue to develop as leaders of the women’s rights movement. Examples of the activities of our ellows include:

• The 2010-2011 ellows met with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for tea at the US Supreme Court in June (pictured above). Justice Ginsburg shared her views on the challenges and inspirations for women’s rights lawyers in the United States and abroad. In the words of one of the ellows: “I will never forget our meeting with Justice Ginsburg, whom I deeply admire. The experience surpassed my greatest expectations. I so appreciated her thoughtfulness, honesty, and quiet sense of humor.”

• On July 26, 2011, the WLPP P held a dinner to bid farewell to the US ellow class of 2010-2011, and to welcome the incoming 2011-2012 LAWA ellows. The dinner was held at the home of WLPP P ounding Board Member, Wendy Williams, and featured a Presentation of Certifcates to the outgoing ellows.

• The 2011-2012 ellowship year started out with an exciting Alumnae Orientation Panel to discuss the opportunities and experiences that accompany being a WLPP P ellow (pictured above). The Panel included Advisory Board Member Deborah Epstein (1990-91), Associate Dean of Clinical Education and Community Service at Georgetown Law; Regan Ralph (1992-93), Executive Director of The und for Global Human Rights; and, Cynthia Totten (1999-2000), Program Director at Just Detention International. (Continued on Page 6) www.law.georgetown.edu/wlppfp OUT EACH 5 • Pictured below: The WLPP P Advisory Board Members welcomed the 2011-2012 ellow class to the Program with a barbeque dinner hosted by National Women’s Law Center Co-President, Marcia Greenberger; National Partnership for Women and amilies Senior Advisor, Judith Lichtman; and WLPP P ounding Board Member and Georgetown Law Professor Emerita Wendy Williams. Marcia, Judy and Wendy treated the ellows to stories about their fght for women’s rights in America, and answered questions about the future of the women’s rights movement. In the words of one of our LAWA ellows: “We had a wonderful time and loved the stories of how far these women of courage have gone in leading the Program.”

all ellow Retreat n October 28th, ten women loaded into Oa van and headed to West Virginia for the WLPP P retreat. About an hour outside of our destination, the snow descended upon us, but our fearless driver, Meghan Morris, drove us to safety. irst stop, The Purple iddle. This restaurant-bar is as charming and intriguing as its name promises. After the long, snowy ride, the fellows, Mary and Dick (Mary’s husband) settled into the cozy venue. We enjoyed good music, sporadic rounds of Trivial Pursuit, and captivating conversation. The next morning, Mary and Dick treated us to a delicious pancake breakfast. • Our frst Seminar of the ellowship year included Country or dinner, we enjoyed a traditional Presentations from several of the LAWA ellows. We learned about Cameroonian meal, prepared by our own the status of women in Cameroon from Elizabeth Ako and Vera Vera Ngassa and viewed the flm “Sisters- Nkwate Ngassa, and Ethiopia from Sophia Gebrehiwot and Luwam in-Law.” “Sisters-in-Law” celebrates Zenebe, and lunched on Ethiopian cuisine (pictured below). the lives and work of Cameroonian women, paying special attention to Vera, then State Prosecutor. The flm tracks Vera’s unfinching struggle to challenge Cameroon’s patriarchal legal structure and bring a semblance of justice to women and children. After two short days, we reloaded and headed back to the District, rested and re-inspired to continue our own individual work toward gender equality.

— By Toni Holness, Current ellow (Continued on Page 7)

6 OUT EACH www.law.georgetown.edu/wlppfp • Pictured at right: On October 3, we held a Seminar on “Gender Rights and HIV/AIDS.” We were joined by a distinguished panel of guests, including (from left to right): Terry McGovern, Senior Program Offcer at the ord oundation and a leading expert on Gender Equality and HIV/AIDS; Patricia Nalls, ounder and Executive Director of The Women’s Collective; Beri Hull, Global Advocacy Offcer for the International Community of Women Living with HIV and AIDS; Tinselyn Simms-Hall, Policy and Advocacy Coordinator at The Women’s Collective; and Michael Pates, Director of the American Bar Association Center for Human Rights and AIDS Coordination Project.

• Pictured above: Our October 17th Seminar completed our LAWA ellow Country Presentations. Kavinya Makau from Kenya; Evelyn Ogochukwu Ebubechukwu from Nigeria; and Mary Ajoot from Uganda educated us about the political, economic, and social participation of women in their home countries. We were also treated to a delicious homemade meal of traditional foods from Kenya and Uganda.

e are grateful to all of our speakers and other supporters – thank you very much for your willingness to share your Wexpertise, mentoring and advice with our Women’s Law and Public Policy ellows!

New Faces at the Women’s Law & Women’s Public Policy Fellowship Program Law & ongratulations to Julia Ernst, after four years on Capitol Hill, Public Policy Cformer Executive Director, who covering health care, education, Fellowship Program is now an Assistant Professor of Law judiciary, and women’s policy issues Advisory Board at the University of North Dakota for Congressman Stephen . Lynch. Deborah Epstein School of Law! Mary Hartnett, a Meghan is in her third year of law Dean of Clinical Education and Public Interest & Communit Service Programs, Georgetown Universit Law Center WLPP P Board Member who served school in the evening division here Marcia Greenberger as Executive Director from 1998- at Georgetown Law. WLPP P is Co-President, National Women’s Law Center 2003, is back at the helm this year as also fortunate to have Georgetown Mary Hartnett Executive Director, WLPPFP and Visiting Professor of Law, a Visiting Professor at Georgetown Law Dean’s ellow Darla Bardine Georgetown Universit Law Center Law and WLPP P Executive ably assist WLPP P on many Eleanor Holmes Norton Congresswoman for the District of Columbia and Professor of Law, Director. A warm welcome to new projects. Darla is a 2011 graduate of Georgetown Universit Law Center Program Assistant Meghan Morris, Georgetown Law, where she was a J dith Lichtman who joined WLPP P this summer Public Interest Law Scholar. Senior Advisor, National Partnership for Women & Families Wendy Williams Professor emerita, GeorGetown University Law Center www.law.georgetown.edu/wlppfp OUT EACH 7 WLPPFP and LAWA Alumni Accomplishments

e celebrate the continued achievements of our outstanding alumni, who strive Naomi Ste n Ta ansky (U.S. Fellow Wthroughout their careers to improve the lives of women and their families. Our 2003-2004) recently joined OMB as an alums constitute a powerful network of experienced and committed lawyers across attorney in the Offce of General Counsel. the United States and the world, serving as founders and directors of non-proft organizations, judges and justices, parliamentarians, professors and deans of law schools, P iscilla Huang (U.S. Fellow 2006- public interest lawyers, and in other infuential posts. Below are a few examples of some 2007), Policy Director at the Asian & Pacifc of their recent activities: Islander American Health orum, received (with a colleague) the 2011 Leadership Hope Lewis (U.S. Fellow 1986-1987), Ma ga et E. Johnson (U.S. Fellow Award in Advocacy from the Congressional a Professor of Law at Northeastern, was 1995-96) was awarded tenure and Black Caucus Health Braintrust. recently elected to the Executive Council promoted to Associate Professor at the of the American Society of International University of Baltimore School of Law. She Naomi Schoenbaum (U.S. Fellow Law and to the Board of Governors of the continues to teach the amily Law Clinic, 2006-2007), is a Bigelow Teaching ellow Society of American Law Teachers. Property Law, Special Topics in Applied and Lecturer in Law at the University of eminism, and co-directs the Center on Chicago and recently published an essay in Helen No ton (U.S. Fellow 1989-1990) Applied eminism. The New Republic about Justice Kagan’s was recently appointed Associate Dean nomination and gender. for Academic Affairs at the University of Jennife Goldbe g (U.S. Fellow 1999- Colorado School of Law, and also became a 2000), Assistant Director of Advocacy Victo ia Thomas (U.S. Fellow 2007- volunteer frefghter. for Elder Law and Health Care at the 2008) is a Staff Attorney at University Maryland Legal Aid Bureau, was appointed Legal Services, where she is working on Debo ah Epstein (U.S. Fellow by Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley a class action representing people with 1990-1991), Associate Dean for to the Maryland Health Beneft Exchange disabilities who wish to receive Medicaid Clinical Education and Public Interest Board of Trustees, where she hopes to help services in the community instead of & Community Service Programs at reduce the number of uninsured persons in nursing homes. Victoria reports that Georgetown University Law Center, through implementation of the Affordable another WLPP P Alum, Joy Whelan WLPP P Advisory Board Member and Care Act. (U.S. Fellow 2009-2010) is also working ounder and Director of Georgetown’s on this case at the Department of Justice. Domestic Violence Clinic, was named the Emma Ssali Namuli (LAWA Fellow 2011 Outstanding Advocate for Clinical 1999-2000) recently started positions as Nadia Asancheyev (U.S. Fellow 2008- Teachers by the Clinical Legal Education a Lecturer at Uganda Christian University 2009) is now Director of Georgetown’s Association. Mukono and Kampala International Center on National Security and the Law. University. She is lecturing in Gender and Angela Dwamena-Aboagye (LAWA the Law, Administrative Authorities, Equity Emilia Lobti (LAWA Fellow 2008- Fellow 1994-1995), the ounder and and Trusts Law and Media Law. 2009) recently became a member of a Executive Director of the Ark oundation pilot committee for an International Labor in Ghana (Ghana’s frst shelter for domestic Evelyn Nassuna (LAWA Fellow Organization project in Cameroon where violence survivors) was recently awarded 1999-2000) is now the Uganda Country she focuses on migration and development the U.S. Ambassador’s Martin Luther Director for Lutheran World Relief, an from a gender perspective. King Award for Social Justice (2009); The organization that works to seek lasting Millennium Excellence Award for the solutions to rural poverty. Lau a Bo nstein (U.S. Fellow 2010- Women’s Empowerment Category (2010); 2011) is now a Staff Attorney at Western and the Africa Servant Leadership Award Cynthia Totten (U.S. Fellow 1999- Missouri Legal Aid, where she represents for Women’s Empowerment (2011). 2000) was promoted to Senior Program domestic violence survivors in divorce and Director at Just Detention International, a child custody cases. Robin Levi (U.S. Fellow 1994- health and human rights organization that 1995), the Human Rights Director of seeks to end sexual abuse in all forms of Danielle Hawkes (U.S. Fellow 2010- the Oakland-based nonproft Justice detention. 2011), started her own frm in Salt Lake Now, is co-editor of a recently published City, Utah, where she plans to handle book entitled Inside This Place Not of It: discrimination, immigration and criminal Narratives from Women’s Prisons. cases, and is on Equality Utah’s legal panel.

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