Congratulations To The 2021 Skadden Fellows

During times like these, we need lawyers committed to public service more than ever.

Here are three lists. The first shows the schools that have sent the most graduates into Skadden Fellowships for the past 13 years (fellowship classes 2009 to 2021). The second shows all law schools that have sent graduates into Skadden Fellowships for the same period. The third shows the 2021 Skadden Fellows and the organizations they’ll be working for.

Again, congratulations to the 29 new Skadden Fellows, their 14 law schools, and their sponsoring organizations.

LAW SCHOOLS WITH THE MOST SKADDEN FELLOWS (2009-2021 FELLOWSHIP CLASSES)

1. Harvard – 68
2. Yale – 47
3. NYU – 33
4. Stanford – 21
5. UCLA – 20

LAW SCHOOLS WITH SKADDEN FELLOWS (2009-2020 FELLOWSHIP CLASSES)

American University – 4
Boston College – 2
Boston University – 1
Chicago – Kent – 1
City University of New York – 9
Columbia – 13
Denver – 1
DePaul – 3
Duke – 4
Fordham – 4
Georgetown – 12
GW – 2
Harvard – 68
Howard – 1
Indiana – 1
John Marshall (Chicago) – 1
Loyola (Los Angeles) – 2
Michigan State – 3
Northeastern – 9
Northwestern – 4
NYU – 33
Roger Williams – 1
Rutgers – 3
Seattle – 1
Stanford – 21
Suffolk – 1
Tulane – 1
University of Arkansas – 1
UC Berkeley/Boalt Hall – 17
UC Davis – 1
UC Irvine – 2
UCLA – 20
U. Chicago – 8
University of Connecticut – 2
University of Illinois – 1
University of Kansas – 1
University of Maryland – 3
University of Miami – 1
University of Michigan – 16
U. Penn. – 17
University of Texas – 3
University of Tulsa – 1
UVA – 5
University of Washington – 1
University of Wisconsin – 1
Valparaiso – 1
Vanderbilt – 4
Villanova – 1
Washington & Lee – 2
Wash U. – 3
Wayne State – 1
West Virginia – 1
Widener – 1
William & Mary – 1
William Mitchell – 1
Yale – 47

TOTAL: 370

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SKADDEN FOUNDATION — 2021 SKADDEN FELLOWS

Jennifer Akchin
City University of New York School of Law
TakeRoot Justice
New York, NY
Will enforce and expand the tenancy rights of homeless and formerly homeless New Yorkers facing abusive and uninhabitable conditions in “scattered-site” housing, through direct representation, movement-led legislative advocacy, and coalition building.

Tamar Alexanian
University of Michigan Law School
Children’s Law Center of California
Monterey Park, CA
Will enforce the rights of LGBTQ foster youth in dependency proceedings in Los Angeles to secure gender-affirming care for transgender and gender non-conforming youth and appropriate foster placements for all LGBTQ youth.

Ellen Bertels
University of Kansas School of Law
Kansas Legal Services
Topeka, KS
Will provide community education and direct legal representation in legal name changes and identity document gender marker corrections to low-income transgender and nonbinary people throughout Kansas.

Susanna Booth
Columbia University School of Law
American Friends Service Committee
Newark, NJ
Will represent detained low-income New Jersey immigrants with existing removal orders who are facing deportation due to no or inadequate representation during their initial removal proceedings.

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Molly Broderick
Harvard Law School
Greater Boston Legal Services
Boston, MA
Will provide direct services and systemic advocacy to combat the wave of COVID-19 related evictions, in coordination with a Massachusetts statewide housing and racial justice coalition to combat COVID-19 related evictions.

Anna Carlsson
Harvard Law School
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri
St. Louis, MO
Will represent low-income St. Louis homeowners burdened with unfair property tax burdens. Direct assistance will include challenging assessments, foreclosure defense, and claiming excess funds from forced sales.

Sarah Chen
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Texas Civil Rights Project
Austin, TX
Will challenge Texas counties’ and cities’ 2021 redistricting where proposed maps will dilute the voting power of racial minorities. Will ensure language access at the polls in counties with significant language minority populations.

Theresa Cheng
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Bay Area Legal Aid
Oakland, CA
Will provide civil legal services to homeless survivors of intimate partner violence in Alameda County. Will partner with on-the-ground caseworkers and healthcare providers to form multi-specialist teams.

Oriana Farnham
Northeastern University School of Law
Maine Equal Justice
Augusta, ME
Will represent parents receiving TANF in Maine to enforce their rights to acquire meaningful education and skills training. Will develop systemic strategies to reform the ASPIRE program.

Isaac Flegel-Mishlove
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Centro Legal de la Raza
Oakland, CA
In close partnerships with school districts, will expand removal defense representation for low-income immigrants in the East Bay area, focusing on students and families who are monolingual Indigenous-language speakers, unaccompanied minors, and geographically isolated communities in South Alameda County.

Nicole Hansen
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
Campaign Legal Center
Washington, DC
Will advance Indigenous people’s opportunity to participate effectively in nontribal elections through advocacy and litigation aimed at dismantling barriers to casting a ballot and guaranteeing a fair redistricting process.

Mahroh Jahangiri
Harvard Law School
Advancement Project
Washington, DC
Will provide community outreach and education, impact litigation, and movement-driven policy advocacy to vindicate rights of low-income women of color impacted by police sexual violence.

Farah Khan
George Washington University Law School
CASA
Hyattsville, MD
Will support coalitions advocating for the abolition of immigration detention and universal representation of detained immigrants by providing strategic individual representation of detained immigrants and pro se assistance.

Molly Lao
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Legal Aid at Work
San Francisco, CA
Will establish a medical-legal-social services partnership with a local one-stop resource and community health center, to provide employment representation for formerly incarcerated individuals with disabilities in Fresno.

Kelsey Miller
Harvard Law School
American Civil Liberties Union – Voting Rights Project
New York, NY
Will work closely with low-income voters of color who have been disenfranchised by racially disparate wait times at the polls on Election Day, using litigation and advocacy to reverse polling place closures and provide sufficient electoral resources, beginning in Alabama and Arizona.

Amaris Montes
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
Rights Behind Bars
Washington, DC
Will investigate conditions and litigate on behalf of children detained in immigration detention centers in the Maryland, Virginia, and DC area, focusing on children with disabilities and their mental health needs.

Erik Nickels
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Mental Health Advocacy Services
Los Angeles, CA
Will establish a behavioral health medical-legal partnership for transition age youth with mental health needs in Los Angeles through direct legal services and impact litigation cases.

Kenneth Parreno
Harvard Law School
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
San Antonio, TX
Will provide direct representation, information and outreach, and impact litigation to empower low-income English language learners and their families to secure the educational resources they need.

Molly Prothero
Harvard Law School
Bread for the City
Washington, DC
Will build a medical-legal partnership with Bread for the City’s new SE DC medical clinic to provide direct representation in housing conditions and public benefits cases.

Anusha Ravi
University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
A Better Balance
Nashville, TN
Will enforce a new law, the Tennessee Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, by providing direct legal services to low-wage workers of color, and educating workers on their rights under the law.

Dillon Reisman
New York University School of Law
American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey
Newark, NJ
Will address the equity implications of New Jersey’s algorithmic and automated decision systems that provide public benefits to people with developmental disabilities.

Erin Stewart
Northeastern University School of Law
Citizens for Juvenile Justice
Boston, MA
Will provide systemic advocacy, legal advice, and representation to youth and parents facing school-based arrest and school discipline issues in Massachusetts.

Ramis Wadood
Yale Law School
ACLU of Michigan
Detroit, MI
Will provide direct representation and systemic advocacy to low-income immigrants in Michigan suffering from the financial and emotional consequences of abusive anti-immigrant policing.

Moriah Wilkins
Northeastern University School of Law
Legal Aid Justice Center
Falls Church, VA
Will provide direct representation for Black and low-income residents of Charlottesville experiencing housing discrimination, as well as zoning advocacy and transactional drafting work with related non-profits.

Alexis Yeboah-Kodie
Harvard Law School
New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice
New Orleans, LA
Will provide wage theft litigation, including enforcing a recent increase in the living wage for city contractors, criminal records clearing, policy advocacy, and grassroots organizing to strengthen worker protections.

Candice Youngblood
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Earthjustice
Los Angeles, CA
Will advance equitable transportation planning centered on the economic resilience and health of California’s low-income communities of color through regulatory and policy advocacy and litigation.

Jessica Zhang
Harvard Law School
RAICES
San Antonio, TX
Will file administrative complaints and federal lawsuits, on behalf of individuals and classes, under the Federal Tort Claims Act, seeking damages against the federal government on behalf of non-citizens living in Texas who have been injured in federal immigration detention.

anneke dunbar-gronke
Harvard Law School
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
Washington, DC
Will address housing precarity for low-income Black renters in and around Baltimore through a community-based approach: eviction defense plus provide community education about, and support to, housing cooperatives and community land trusts.

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