Justice Catalyst Fellows

Juliette Jackson is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow increasing access to services for underserved tribal communities in the West with Sacred Lands, Native Hands and the Center for Biological Diversity.

Yohannes Moore is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow working to free the many people impacted by racism in the California criminal court system with the University of San Francisco School of Law Racial Justice Clinic.

Andrew Ntim is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow leading an organizing campaign to demand justice for those subjected to abusive practices within restrictive gang units in California prisons with Legal Services for Prisoners with Children.

Vishal Reddy is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow building worker power with Local Progress.

Abbie Starker is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow co-creating healing alternatives to the criminal legal system with the Center for Restorative Justice at Suffolk University.

Chris Vu is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow pursuing policy and litigation strategies for people with serious mental illnesses in jail or experiencing homelessness with Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy, and Innovation and Loyola’s Anti-Racism Center at LMU Loyola

Trillium Chang is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow with Innovation Law Lab working to ensure that detained asylum seekers in the Deep South have legal representation by leveraging data analysis to inform efforts and by activating pro bono counsel nationwide.

Molly Gupta is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project Joint Fellow at the City Attorney’s office in Nashville promoting sustainable and equitable urban development.

TJ Grayson is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Advancement Project using the practices of movement lawyering to help abolitionist organizers address the influences of police unions in pursuit of their goal.

Samuel Kuhn is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project Joint Fellow serving as the first in-house specialist designated to support the New York State Attorney General’s Office in exercising its newly-expanded authority to structurally reform police in the state.

Sarah Medina Camiscoli is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Public Counsel, collaborating with them to lead the Peer Defense Project at IntegrateNYC, an organization centering an unprecedented intergenerational movement lawyering model that catalyzes youth-led movements for civil rights.

Marie Evelyn Sheehan is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow with Street Democracy working on the Property Tax Appeals Project (PTAP), which appeals the over assessment of property taxes on low-value homes in minority communities, helping at-risk homeowners avoid over-taxation and

Ming Tanigawa-Lau is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project building the first asylum-seeker-led systemic reform program in the United States.

Sara Zollner is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project Joint Fellow at the San Francisco's District Attorney Office who will create a recommended case development framework for newly-formed workers’ rights units in local government offices that center workers’ voices and

Abigail Burman is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project Fellow focusing on self-managed abortions as a public health issue.

David Chen is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project designing and executing a nationwide strategy to enforce state law limitations on the authority of local law enforcement to detain immigrants in cooperation with ICE.

Ginger Cline is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Al Otro Lado using impact litigation to defend the rights of asylum-seeking individuals.

Kimberly Fayette is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project Fellow at the New York City Commission on Human Rights focusing on the enforcement of administrative guidance barring discrimination based on hairstyle and hair texture.

John Giammatteo is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Lutheran Social Services of New York's Immigration Legal Program coordinating the Second Circuit Asylum Monitoring Project.

Sarah Levine is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project Fellow at the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia coordinating enforcement effort using antitrust, consumer protection, and wage and hour laws to protect low-wage workers in D.C.

Elizabeth Lewis is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Beyond Legal Aid working with community-based organizations to support LGBTQI+ immigrants.

Joseph Meyers is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the National Lawyers Guild's National Immigration Project challenging unconstitutional police practices at the border.

Yazmine Nichols is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at ACLU's Criminal Law Reform Project challenging unjust pretrial conditions of release and eliminating pretrial profiteering through a targeted campaign centering women of color.

Maya Ragsdale is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Dream Defenders providing legal, policy, and strategic support to abolitionist organizers fighting to end pretrial detention and close jails in Miami-Dade County.

Michael Saavedra is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Youth Justice Coalition working to remove barriers that block many formerly incarcerated individuals from becoming lawyers.

Priya Sreenivasan is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow with Project South using law and advocacy to challenge immigrant incarceration.

Amy Tamayo is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante working with migrant worker women to challenge discrimination and harassment women face in U.S. employment.

Mudassar Toppa is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR) Project providing legal representation to U.S. Muslims and other constituencies targeted by government agencies under the guise of "national security" and "counterterrorism."

Octavia Abell is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow and CEO of Govern for America, a nonprofit working to build the next generation of public sector leaders by connecting dynamic recent graduates to impactful state and local government roles and supporting

Matt Ampleman is 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Legal Services of Eastern Missouri working to revitalize neighborhoods in St. Louis.

Rosa Lee Bichell is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Disability Rights Advocates identifying and supporting people with disabilities in immigration detention.

Allie Brudney is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Corporate Accountability Lab working on issues relating to business and human rights.

Denise Ghartey is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Community Justice Project using a movement lawyering model to work on climate gentrification and racial justice.

Stacy Ham is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Legal Aid Justice Center seeking a remedy through impact litigation for immigrant children who were recently released from detention facilities.

Molly Linhorst is a 2019-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at ACLU of New Jersey challenging egregious immigration conditions at county-run facilities.

Laura McCready is a 2019-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the ACLU of Massachusetts combatting discrimination against people being treated for opioid use disorder.

Carolyn O'Connor is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Texas Civil Rights Project supporting communities impacted by the border wall and representing asylum seekers.

Hayden Rodarte is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights building a unique accountability model for addressing civil and human rights abuses in immigration detention at the border.

Ian Stringham is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow and Executive Director at California Legal Research working to expand access to law libraries for people in California prisons and jails.

Patrick Baker is a 2018-2019 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Immigrant Defense Project challenging abusive immigration enforcement practices in New York state.

Lydia X.Z. Brown is a 2018-2019 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law empowering students with disabilities against harmful discipline.

Wally Hilke is a 2018-2019 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Community Activism Law Alliance challenging police misconduct in Chicago alongisde grassroots organizers.

Emma Scott is a 2018-2019 Justice Catalyst Fellow at California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation working on the California H-2A Project.

Callie Wilson is a 2018-2019 Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project Fellow in the Oakland City Attorney's Office working on issues to promote gender equity.

Marissa Roy is a 2017-2018 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office creating an impact litigation partnership between the LA City Attorney and UCLA.