Stanford Law School Public Interest Program Fellows
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Stanford Law School Public Interest Program Fellows Each year, Stanford Law School awards Public Interest Fellowships to those who have a history of public service, provide leadership within the law school, and are committed to careers as lawyers in the public service. Fellows serve a variety of roles within the law school – they mentor fi rst-year students, provide policy direction for the Center and the law school, have direct access to the law school administration regarding myriad issues related to public interest, and engage in direct programming with the assis- tance of the Center director and staff. The Fellows also serve an advisory body to the Center’s Director and staff, and are expected to: pro- mote public interest/public sector work at the Law School, provide ongoing assistance during the academic year to Center staff on public interest programming and events for the Law School commu- nity, serve as mentors to incoming fi rst-year students, give input to the administration and faculty on internal law school policies that impact public interest and public service, pursue a curriculum that includes a signifi cant component of public interest law courses, spend summers working full-time for at least ten weeks in public interest/service law, and make his or her career primarily in public service. Sabrina Adler graduated collaboration between Lucile Packard Children's from Brown University in 2002 Hospital and Legal Aid of San Mateo County) and with a degree in International served as the co-chair for the 2006 Shaking the Relations. A native of San Foundations conference. While not studying law, Francisco, she returned to she performs with a women's singing group in San California after graduation to Francisco and rides her bike as often as possible. work as a production manager at the San Francisco Girls Matt Armsby graduated Chorus. She then moved on from Vanderbilt University, to become a program assistant at The California where he studied philosophy Wellness Foundation, where she worked in the and natural science. After areas of women's health and diversity in the working for a law fi rm in Atlanta, health professions. Sabrina hopes to return to he moved to Stanford, where the health fi eld after law school, and would like he has investigated biodiversity to provide direct legal services. During her 1L protection, environmental summer, Sabrina researched health and welfare- equity, and institutional related legal issues as an intern on the health design. He presently chairs the Environmental and human services team at the San Francisco Law Journal’s Article Review Board, but he also City Attorney's offi ce. She was a student in the edited articles for the Journal of Civil Rights Stanford Community Law Clinic during her 2L & Civil Liberties and worked for the Stanford year, where she worked on housing, employment, Public Interest Law Foundation. He has interned and criminal records expungement. Last summer, in litigation and policy clerk positions for she worked at the environmental public interest Earthjustice and Environmental Defense. Outside fi rm, Shute, Milhaly & Weinberger in San of school, he pursues his interests in running, Francisco. At Stanford, she co-founded a pro-bono cycling, and spending time outdoors. program with the Family Advocacy Program (a Shireen Barday graduated because she can’t imagine doing anything else. In from Columbia University’s her spare time she enjoys road biking, running, Barnard College with a degree hiking and playing with her dog. in political science and went on to the City University of Brian Bilford is originally New York where she earned from Los Angeles, CA and her masters in Political Science. attended UCLA where he Before law school she worked received his bachelor's degree for the New York City Council, in Psychology, Philosophy and and was the campaign manager Sociology. While at UCLA, he for a City Council candidate. Shireen also served worked with a group of faculty as a member of the board of directors for New and student researchers at York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault. After UCLA and Locke High School law school she hopes to pursue her interests in Watts to help develop a curriculum for Locke's in voting rights which was fueled by her time School of Social Empowerment. At Stanford, as a Senior demographer for New York City’s Brian has been a clinical student in the Youth and Districting Commission. As a law student she Education Law Project for two semesters, helped has been active in Public Interest Law Students to found the Youth and Education Advocates Association, the Stanford Journal or Civil Rights of Stanford, and has volunteered with COACH and Civil Liberties, Stanford Law and Policy and the Domestic Violence Pro Bono Project. Review, and has volunteered with organizations He currently serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief for the such as Community Legal Services of East Palo Stanford Journal of Civil Rights/Civil Liberties. Alto. During her fi rst summer she split her time Brian spent his fi rst summer as a legal intern at between the New York City Law Department the ACLU of Southern California working on Appeals Division and the New York State Attorney two lawsuits relating to education equity. He General’s Offi ce, Criminal Division in the Public split this past summer working for the ACLU’s Integrity Unit. Last summer, she worked at National Legal Department, working mostly on Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, DC and the the ACLU v. NSA case, and the Youth Law Center, National Criminal Enforcement Section of the working primarily on issues relating to youth in Antitrust Division at the Department of Justice. the juvenile justice system. Brian will be clerking next year for Senior Judge William C. Canby in Jessa Barnard grew up in Phoenix, AZ. He hopes to eventually pursue a Bennington, VT and went onto career in impact litigation in the fi elds of public Dartmouth College with a degree education and civil rights. in Anthropology with a minor in Neuroscience. After graduation Travis Brandon graduated she worked as a policy specialist from Stanford University, at the Vermont Medical Society. where he majored in English She came to law school thinking that she wanted Literature. Before starting law to work on access to health care and her fi rst school, he worked at a failing year summer experience working at Bay Area dot-com, taught high school Legal Aid, confi rmed her interest in public English in Portola Valley, received health and the law. In her second summer, she a masters degree in English worked for Disability Rights Advocates learning Literature from Yale University, about impact litigation and class action cases. and toiled in a New York law She currently runs a pro bono program with the fi rm. Since returning to Stanford for law school, San Mateo Legal Aid Family Advocacy Program he has focused on public interest technology and participates in the Stanford Community issues and on environmental law. During his 1L Law Clinic. Jessa is interested in public interest summer, Travis worked at the ACLU of Northern California’s Technology and Civil Liberties offi ce. (upcoming) Stanford Journal of Animal Law and He is a student fellow with the Stanford Center Policy, and Shaking the Foundations. Kristin for Internet and Society, where he has worked also pursued her interest in environmental on projects relating to privacy concerns about work outside the classroom at nonprofi ts and municipal wireless systems. On the environmental government agencies including the Natural front, he has participated in the Environmental Resources Defense Counsel, the Center for Food Law Clinic and it currently pursuing a joint Safety, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, degree in the Interdisciplinary Program in and the City and County of San Francisco City Environment and Resources, where he is focusing Attorney's Offi ce. Prior to attending law school, on marine and coastal resources. Following up she worked for the San Francisco Department on that interest, he worked last summer at the of the Environment in their Toxics Reduction California Coastal Commission. After graduation, Program. Kristin has also done air quality Travis will clerk for Senior Judge John T. Noonan research, worked as a technical assistant at in San Francisco. Washington University's environmental clinic, and worked in the environmental affairs division Andrew Bruck is an elected of Anheuser-Busch. As an undergraduate she student representative on the studied Chemistry and chemical Engineering at Public Interest Committee Rhodes College (Memphis, TN) and Washington as well as co-Editor-in-Chief University (St. Louis, MO). Other than studying of the Stanford Law & Policy environmental law, Kristin has also taken classes Review, the former coordinator in swing dancing, jujitsu, weight lifting, and of the Immigration Pro Bono gymnastics while at Stanford. Program, and co-President of Building a Better Legal Juan Carlos Cancino Profession. He also currently was born and raised in sits on the Board of Trustees for Community San Francisco's Western Legal Services of East Palo Alto, a legal services Addition. After graduating clinic for residents of the Bay Area. Andrew's from Stanford with a B.A. in primary interest, however, is prosecuting political International Relations, he corruption, and he has spent both summers of worked at California Rural Legal law school working in the fi eld, fi rst at the U.S. Assistance fi rst as an Americorps Attorney's Offi ce in Newark, NJ, and then at the VISTA Volunteer and later as Justice Department's Public Integrity Section in an aide to director Jose Padilla. He also worked Washington, DC. Before law school, Andrew grew in Los Angeles as an assistant to voting rights up in Mendham, NJ and majored in the Woodrow attorney Joaquin Avila.