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Stanford Public Interest Program Fellows Each year, 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 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 , 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. In his fi rst year back Wilson School at Princeton University. After law at Stanford, he enjoyed being part of the Civil school, he will clerk for Stuart Rabner, Chief Rights & Civil Liberties Journal, the Stanford Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Latino Law Students Association, and COACH, among other groups. Juan Carlos split his fi rst Kristin Burford is a summer between an externship for Northern third year law student who California District Judge and has focused on public interest the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights in San environmental work during Francisco. He spent this past summer working her time at Stanford. She for the private public interest environmental law has been involved with the fi rm, Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger. He hasn't yet Environmental Law Society, fi gured out where he'll work after graduation, but Environmental Law Journal, looks forward to collecting LRAP checks. the Environmental Law Clinic, Student Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Andrew Canter is a JD/ Edwin Dietrich hails from MPP student between SLS Baltimore, MD, and spent his and the Kennedy School of college years at Yale before Government. At Stanford he wising up and coming west. co-chaired the 2006 Shaking At Stanford he has focused in the Foundations conference Environmental Law, spending on progressive lawyering and signifi cant chunks of his helped found Law Students semesters in the Environmental Building a Better Legal Law Clinic and pursuing a joint Profession. In summer 2007 Andrew spent two course of study in the Interdisciplinary Program months working on post-Katrina housing issues in Environment and Resources. After summers at with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, the SF Public Defender's Offi ce and the Center then spent two months prosecuting white-collar on Race, Poverty, and the Environment, he is crime for the Department of Justice. Andrew is eager to work at the intersection of environmental interested in public policy, criminal prosecution, law and health policy. He is currently applying to and the performing arts. medical school, and plans to combine medical practice with environmental health policy work Molly Clafl in is a 3L (many, many years from now). When not at the focusing on civil liberties and law school, he enjoys riding bicycles, chasing after political law. At Stanford she Frisbees, and trying to cultivate profi ciencies in has been active in Women of cooking and yoga. Stanford Law, Law Students for Choice, Campaign for Michael Freedman a National Majority, and graduated from Claremont National Democratic Law McKenna College with an Students Association, among interdisciplinary degree in others. She spent her summers working on the Philosophy, Politics, and warrantless wiretapping case for the American Economics. For two years Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, and following graduation, he worked practicing political law at a boutique election law fi rst as a Judicial Administration fi rm in Los Angeles. Molly graduated from the Fellow at the California Court University of Southern California with a B.A. in of Appeal, Second District in Los Angeles, where Political Science and minors in News Media and he advocated for self-represented civil appellants, Gender Studies. During her time at USC she was and later at a small, California-centric non-profi t named a national Harry S. Truman Scholar for in Washington, D.C. Since arriving at Stanford, her commitment to public service. Active in the he has contributed to a number of public interest political realm, Molly has also worked with U.S. organizations. He is currently the Co-Editor- Senator Ron Wyden’s offi ce, California Governor in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights Gray Davis’ offi ce, and did speechwriting for the and Civil Liberties. In addition, Michael has Chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity been enrolled in the Criminal Defense Clinic Commission in Washington, DC. She hopes to for two semesters, was a SPILF board member, eventually use her political passion to practice and last year served as one of the elected student election law. Originally from Ashland, Oregon, representatives to the Public Interest Committee. Molly is an avid painter and enjoys traveling, Michael spent his fi rst summer working for a photography, and reading previously-banned small private public interest fi rm that represented books. plaintiffs in impact fair housing lawsuits; this past summer, he worked at the ACLU of Southern California, contributing to litigation related to education, homelessness, police abuse of power, and immigration. Michael plans on becoming improve the educational outcomes of youth an impact litigator in the areas of racial justice in foster care. Jesse is a 2007 Bergstrom Child and anti-discrimination law, and will spend next Welfare Law Fellow, a 2007 Justice John Paul year clerking for Judge Reginald Lindsay in the Stevens Public Interest Fellow, a Stanford Public District of Massachusetts. Interest Fellow, the 2007 Pfeiffer Scholar, and a recipient of the State Bar of Nancy Glass is a 3L and California Law School Scholarship. in addition to the PI Fellows program, has been involved in Mariko Hirose is interested PILSA, the law review, mock in civil rights / civil liberties trial, and the criminal defense litigation and international clinic at Stanford. She spent her human rights. She attended 1L summer working for an NGO college at Yale, where she in the West Bank that provides studied political science and representation to Palestinians economics and developed who face trial in the Israeli military courts. For an interest in law through her 2L summer, she stayed in San Francisco and internships at organizations worked at the Federal Public Defender. After like New Haven Legal Assistance, Children clerking, she hopes to fi nd a job as a public in Placement, and the United Nations High defender. She followed a circuitous path to law Commission for Refugees. After graduation, she school—she taught English in Jordan as a Peace worked and traveled in Japan and China. Since Corps volunteer and worked in D.C. for a PBS coming to SLS she has focused on civil rights news program. litigation, spending her summers at the Center for Constitutional Rights and at Altshuler Berzon Jesse Hahnel is committed LLP. During school she has been involved in to increasing educational the Stanford International Human Rights Law justice, a commitment Association, Stanford Law & Policy Review, stemming from his years and . She is currently teaching in inner city doing an externship at the ACLU Immigrants’ Washington DC and New York Rights Project and is working on launching the City. After teaching, Jesse International Human Rights Pro Bono Projects! joined the KIPP Foundation Upon graduation, Mariko will clerk for Judge as Senior Analyst, supporting Stephen Reinhardt on the Ninth Circuit. a network of forty-fi ve charter schools, each providing a college-preparatory education to Jennifer Liu was born and students in our nation’s neediest communities. raised in San Jose, CA and He spent his fi rst year of law school at Harvard, attended Harvard University, but after working with Professor Koski at where she majored in Social Stanford’s Youth and Education Legal Project he Studies and minored in Latin transferred to Stanford to better facilitate their American Studies. After collaboration; together with Professor Koski graduating from college in he is the co-author of The Past, Present, and 2001, she worked in Denver as an international Possible Futures of “Education Finance Reform” equity analyst for Janus Capital Group, an Litigation. Last spring Jesse was a law clerk for investment management fi rm. She is currently Public Advocates, where he assisted with various in her fourth and last year of a JD/MBA program legal projects aimed at increasing the educational with the Stanford Graduate School of Business. opportunities available to low-income, minority Jennifer spent her fi rst summer in the New York children. This past summer Jesse interned at offi ce of Legal Momentum (formerly the NOW the National Center for Youth Law, working to Legal Defense and Education Fund), where she worked on women’s rights litigation. Her policy in a comparative context. Noah received second summer, she worked on national security, his Bachelor’s degree in Government and racial justice, and First Amendment litigation Environmental Studies from Bowdoin College for the ACLU’s National Legal Department in and a Masters in Environment and Development New York. This past summer, she split between from The London School of Economics. Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian, a plaintiffs’ fi rm in Oakland specializing in Liz Morris grew up in employment discrimination and wage and hour Houston, Texas and graduated class actions, and Outten & Golden, a plaintiffs’ in 2005 from Claremont employment law fi rm in New York. Next year, McKenna College in Southern Jennifer will be clerking for Judge John Koeltl California. Her legal interests in the Southern District of New York. Jennifer is include immigrants’ rights, interested in employment and civil rights impact prisoners’ rights, education litigation and plans to work in private public law, and employment law. Liz interest litigation after clerking. participated in the Stanford Immigrants’ Rights Clinic both semesters of her Noah Long spent last 2L year when she prevented the government summer at Shute, Mihaly and from deporting a U.S. citizen! She spent her Weinberter, a public-interest fi rst summer at Prisoner Legal Services and her law fi rm in San Francisco. His second summer at Public Advocates, both in San fi rst in law school summer he Francisco. During law school, Liz was involved spent at the Natural Resources with COACH, the Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Defense Council’s Climate Liberties, the Immigration Pro Bono Program Center in Washington, D.C. on in EPA, SPILF, and Alternative Spring Break in a Stanford M.A.P. Fellowship. Biloxi, MS. Liz directed the COACH mentoring That summer he also worked with the NRDC program her 2L year. She currently externs at International Program to develop an energy Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center for advocacy program in Chile. He is still working the National Origin, Immigration, and Language part time with NRDC to promote sustainable Rights Program. In her free time, Liz enjoys energy policy and protect the Chilean Patagonia Bikram, skiing, and exploring the outdoors. from destruction by an international energy company. Noah has been enrolled with the Kavita Narayan grew up Mills Law Clinic for three semesters, working in West Des Moines, Iowa and on impact litigation to improve national fuel attended the University of economy standards. He was co-director for the Iowa, where she majored in Stanford International Law Journal and Stanford Anthropology and Women's Environmental Law Journal Symposium on Studies. Since coming to law climate change litigation last winter. He was school, she has been involved also a research assistant for David Victor and in a number of community Tom Heller, studying the relationship of oil to and public interest activities, politics in Venezuela and a teaching assistant for including the DV Pro Bono Project, COACH, Robert McGinn for Ethics and Public Policy in APILSA, adn SJCRCL. Kavita spent her 1L the Stanford Science, Technology and Society summer at the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo program. Prior to law school, Noah worked with County, where she did direct-services work with Mass Energy Consumers alliance developing a recipients of public benefi ts. She spent her 2L renewable energy certifi cate market; with the summer at the ACLU of Southern California, Landless rural workers movement (MST) in Brazil working on immigrants' rights-related impact to catalogue members’ political and ecological litigation. She is currently enrolled in the perspectives; and at the National Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic. After she graduates Atmospheric Research studying U.S. climate next May, Kavita will clerk for Judge Warren Robert Matsui and Ben Chandler. She found Ferguson on the Ninth Circuit. After that, she that the most valuable experiences were ones hopes to go into immigrants' rights practice or where she saw the direct affect of her work, and become a federal public defender. has since been involved in organizations such as the Domestic Violence Project and the East Thomas Nosewicz is Palo Alto Community Law Project. Her 2L year a native of New Orleans, she was actively involved in several student run where he graduated from an organizations including PILSA, WSL, SLPR, all-boys Jesuit high school. and is a Shaking the Foundations. She has also Then he went to college spent two semesters working in the Stanford and received a degree in Community Law Clinic where she has represented Linguistics and English from low-income clients in wage-and-hour, housing, UC Berkeley, which is not an all-boys high and expungement cases. She spent her 1L school. He bridged the temporal gap--though summer working with the family violence unit has yet to square the cultural and social circle-- of the Santa Clara District Attorney’s Offi ce and between Cal and Stanford Law School by working her 2L summer working for Public Justice doing as an immigration paralegal for a fi rm in San consumer and civil rights impact litigation. Francisco. At Stanford, he has been a StreetLaw teacher, writer for the Center for Internet and Michael Roney grew up in Society's newsletter Packets, coordinator of a Huntingdon, PA, and graduated Katrina panel for the Shaking the Foundations with a degree in Comparative conference, research assistant for Professor Literature from Dartmouth , and a member of the Criminal College. Prior to law school, he Defense Clinic. In addition to being a Public worked as an Editor at Pearson Interest Fellow, he is a Justice John Paul Stevens Benjamin Cummings, which Public Interest fellow, a Center for Internet and helped him determine that Society Student Fellow, and an Equal Justice he hated work that lacked a Works Katrina Summer Corps grant recipient. larger purpose. His 1L summer he worked for He also serves on the National Advisory Board the Fair Housing Law Project, part of the Law of the Student Hurricane Network, a nationwide Foundation of Silicon Valley, in San Jose. Last organization of law students that coordinates summer he popped over to DC and worked for volunteer legal aid work in the Gulf Coast. During Public Citizen's Litigation Group on all sort of his fi rst summer, he worked at UNITY For Greater interesting impact litigation and appellate cases. New Orleans, a homelessness advocacy center, On campus, he's currently in his second semester and during his second summer he interned at the with the Community Law Clinic. Previously, he Federal Defenders of New York in Manhattan. He worked on Shaking the Foundations and as Co- will be clerking for Judge Victor Marrero of the Managing Editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Southern District of New York during the 2009 Rights and Civil Liberties. In his fi rst year, he did term. intake at VAP at CLS-EPA and the Guardianship Clinic and volunteered at the Domestic Violence Alexis Rickher, originally Pro Bono Project. He also co-chaired a committee from Martinez, CA, is a for the SPILF Auction and worked on Shakings graduate of the University and the Civil Rights journal. of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in Political Science. Prior to law school, Alexis worked as a legislative correspondent and legislative assistant for Congressman Matt Rubin is interested in Lauren Sun grew up in directly working with clients, the suburbs of Philadelphia the criminal justice system, kids, before attending Princeton civil rights, and music. After University, where she majored in graduating from Swarthmore economics. After graduating in College, Matt worked as a 2003, she worked in economic seventh grade public school consulting before coming to teacher and as the child court Stanford in 2005 (with some advocate at a rape crisis center, traveling in between!). Here both in Philadelphia. At law school he has at the law school, she serves on the boards of the been involved with the Community Law Clinic, Stanford Law Review and Stanford Public Interest Community Legal Services of East Palo Alto, Law Foundation, and also defends Three Strikes the Prosecution Clinic, the Civil Rights Journal, clients as part of the Criminal Defense Clinic. the Criminal Law Society, and Fresh Lifelines She has also been a Volunteer Attorney Program for Youth (FLY). He is a DJ on Stanford's volunteer, member editor for the Stanford Journal radio station, KZSU 90.1FM (.org for live of Civil Rights/Civil Liberties, and COACH streaming), from 11-12pm every Monday. He split mentor. For her 1L summer, Lauren externed for both his summers, working variously at a private the Honorable Jeffrey S. White on the Northern public interest law fi rm specializing in criminal District of California. Last summer she split defense and police misconduct litigation, a not- between Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk for-profi t specializing in education and disability & Rabkin, where she worked on everything from rights law, the United States Department of First Amendment to tax issues, and the Antitrust Labor, and (gasp!) a corporate law fi rm. When Division of the US DOJ, where she worked on a the curtain closes on law school, Matt will clerk credit card conduct investigation and a ticketing for two years, fi rst for Judge Pollak on the Eastern services merger investigation. District of Pennsylvania, and then for Judge Parker on the Second Circuit. Kathryne TafollaYoung is a JD/PhD candidate in sociology Brian Shillinglaw is a third- and law. As an undergraduate, year law and IPER student who she majored in American Studies focuses on conservation fi nance, and co-founded Stanford’s natural resource management, undergraduate Mock Trial property law, and land team. Following graduation, conservation. He was involved she returned to her old high with the Environmental Law school in Tracy, California Journal and Environmental Law and started a program to help students apply Society at the law school, and he to four-year colleges. Before heading back to co-organized an executive workshop on fi nancing Stanford, TafollaYoung was a graduate student in community ownership and management of the English Department at Oregon State, where natural resource assets in April 2007. He interned she taught composition and fi ction writing. at American Farmland Trust (lobbying over the During law school, TafollaYoung has spent her Farm Bill) and at Beartooth Capital Partners summers working at the Stanford Supreme Court (conservation development) during law school. Litigation Clinic, the Federal Defender's Offi ce, Prior to law school Brian worked for a number and most recently in the Stanford Sociology of organizations in the non-profi t sector on rural Department, where she did work on access to civil and agricultural development. Brian did his justice. At SLS, TafollaYoung has been heavily undergraduate work at Harvard and spent a year involved in the Criminal Law Society, Shaking as a PhD student at Yale before heading west to the Foundations, and the Environmental Law Stanford. Journal. Her current research interests include procedural justice and social stratifi cation. She Sierra Club, and a small private public interest recently spent several weeks conducting fi eld environmental law fi rm, Lowerre & Frederick. research on the culture of cockfi ghting. In her With what little spare time is left, she enjoys spare time, she enjoys tidepooling, weightlifting, getting outdoors, dancing, baking, and fi nally reading fi ction, and playing with her scruffy learning to play that guitar. While she’ s not yet rescue dog, Scout. sure what she’ll be doing next year, Jessica looks forward to joining the working world and helping Crystal Tindell grew up in protect our natural resources. a small California town called Templeton before attending Caitlin Weisberg grew Stanford University where she up in Washington, DC and majored in Political Science and graduated from Wellesley English with a creative writing College in 2003 with a degree emphasis. At SLS, she has been in Sociology and Art History. involved in the Criminal Law Prior to law school, she worked Society, the Domestic Violence as an intern at the Death Penalty Pro Bono Program, Judicial Review, and the Information Center and as a Mock Trial Program, serving as director of the paralegal at Bredhoff & Kaiser, nationwide SLS Mock Trial Invitational. She P.L.L.C., a small labor law fi rm in Washington, spent her two law school summers exploring D.C. She enrolled in law school without much the differences in state and federal prosecution, direction, but has generally pursued her working fi rst in the Santa Clara County District commitment to socioeconomic equality, juvenile Attorney's Offi ce and then at the U.S. Attorney's justice, and criminal law. The concrete evidence Offi ce in San Francisco. Crystal is currently of this includes her position as a Board Member enrolled in the SLS Prosecution Clinic, and for the Criminal Law Society, her participation in hopes to devote her legal career to progressive Stanford's StreetLaw program, and her summer prosecution. jobs with the Criminal Justice Center and the Philadelphia Defenders Association. Caitlin also Jessica Townsend is a suffers from a slight addiction to journal work third-year law student with a (she is the co-Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford strong commitment to public Law & Policy Review, an editor on Stanford Law interest environmental law. Review, and a former associate editor on the After graduating from the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties). University of Texas with degrees In the year following graduation, Caitlin will in Mathematics and the Plan II be clerking for Judge Jan DuBois of the United Honors Program, she pursued States District Court for the Eastern District of her environmental interests at Pennsylvania. the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and has continued to focus on environmental issues while at Stanford. During her 2L year, Jessica served as Co-President of the Environmental Law Society and Symposium Editor for the Stanford Environmental Law Journal (ELJ); she also spent both semesters working in the Stanford Environmental Law Clinic. This year, she has stayed on as a member of ELJ’s Article Review Board and is also a member of Stanford Law Review. Jessica spent her law school summers working at Earthjustice,