Come learn about project-based and organizational fellowship opportunities on Monday, March 24th at 12:30 in D’Agostino Hall, Lipton Hall. Fellowships are a primary route to careers in impact litigation, legal services, and other public interest work. This information session will offer important insights into fellowship opportunities, what graduates gain from fellowships, and the application processes – as well as free pizza! We encourage 1Ls, 2Ls, and 3Ls to attend. In particular, 2Ls and 3Ls who are clerking should be planning for fellowship applications now and are strongly encouraged to attend.
The panel on March 24th will include the following speakers:
Andrew Beck is a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberty Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project. He joined the project as a fellow in 2010 and became a staff attorney in 2011. His practice focuses on protecting reproductive rights through impact litigation in federal and state courts. Prior to his work at the ACLU, Andrew served as a law clerk to Judge Julio Fuentes, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and to Judge Jerome B. Simandle, U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. Andrew received a J.D., Order of the Coif, from New York University School of Law and a B.A. from Haverford College.
Ashley Grant is an Equal Justice Works fellow at Advocates for Children of New York advocating for the education rights of overage, under-credited students. Through the project, she represents individual clients, trains parents and professionals, and works on policy related to diploma options and programming for overage middle school students. Ashley earned a B.A. in Sociology from UCLA and a M.A. in Special Education from California State University Dominguez Hills. Before law school, she taught a special education program for elementary students with intellectual disabilities in East Los Angeles for two years before moving to a charter high school for at-risk and court-involved youth where she provided special education services to students in Compton, Long Beach and south Los Angeles. While at NYU Law, Ashley participated in the Racial Justice Clinic and the Juvenile Defender clinic and interned at AFC, the Door, and the San Francisco Public Defender’s office.
Amanda Jaret is the 2013-14 AFL-CIO Law Fellow. Amanda graduated from Binghamton University with high honors in Philosophy in 2010. She attended St. John’s University School of Law and graduated magna cum laude in 2013. While at St. John’s, Amanda served as the Symposium Editor for the St. John’s Law Review, received the Samuel M. Kaynard Memorial Service Award from the Labor and Employment Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and co-authored several published articles as a Junior Fellow of the Center for Labor and Employment Law at St. John’s. She received the Cesar Chavez Memorial Scholarship for earning the highest grades in the labor and employment law curriculum and the ABA-Bloomberg BNA Award for Excellence in Labor and Employment Law at graduation. During law school, Amanda worked as a law clerk for the United Auto Workers in Detroit, Michigan and at Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, a union-side labor law firm in Manhattan. Next year, Amanda will be joining Chairman Pearce’s staff as a staff attorney at the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C.
Nancy S. Marks is a senior attorney at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., a public-interest environmental advocacy organization, in its New York City office. Working as a member of NRDC’s litigation team, she specializes in citizen enforcement litigation under federal environmental statutes. Ms. Marks has brought dozens of cases against major industrial polluters throughout the country, as well as against federal and state agencies that violate environmental laws. She is also co-director of NRDC’s environmental law clinic with the New York University School of Law. Before coming to NRDC in 1986, Ms. Marks spent two years as an Assistant Attorney General in the Environmental Protection Division of the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General. Prior to that, she was a legal fellow in NRDC’s San Francisco office. Ms. Marks earned her J.D. in 1983 from Harvard Law School. Ms. Marks also holds an M.S. in geology from Stanford University (1979), where she specialized in marine geology, and a B.A. in geology from Williams College (1976).