Our Fellows

Meet the brilliant, creative legal fellows driving high-impact systemic change to advance economic and social justice

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DaJonna Richardson

DaJonna Richardson is a 2024-2025 Jonathan W. Cuneo COSAL/Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Cuneo, Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP, which is a premier firm that arms workers and small businesses with tools for accountability against big businesses/cartels, preventing unlawful non-compete agreements and monopolies by promoting free trade with a particular focus on facilitating the advancement of underrepresented individuals within the field, emphasizing inclusivity, fairness, and equal opportunity.

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Immigration Justice Elaheh Farmand Immigration Justice Elaheh Farmand

Vibha Kannan

Vibha Kannan is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project to support community-led organizing campaigns and aid immigrants in fighting the abusive practices of for-profit immigration bond companies through legislative advocacy and litigation under New York’s newly-enacted ban on electronic monitoring and unreasonable fees.

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Public Health Elaheh Farmand Public Health Elaheh Farmand

Poonam Daryani

Poonam Daryani will be joining Pregnancy Justice, a legal advocacy organization that fights to ensure that people do not lose their rights because of their capacity for pregnancy or pregnancy outcome, with a focus on those most at risk of state control and criminalization.

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Andrew Loewen

Andrew Loewen is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project Fellow working at the DC Office of the Attorney General, empowering workers and small businesses with knowledge, resources, and legal actions through a campaign promoting antitrust enforcement privately and by the DC Office of the Attorney General, focusing on the unlawful non-compete agreements that restrict worker freedom and the bid-rigging that shuts out small businesses.

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Yulie Landan

Yulie Landan is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild to conduct systemic litigation on behalf of immigrants detained in Louisiana and Virginia to shut down detention centers and provide direct representation to individuals that remain detained while decarceration efforts continue.

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Sarah Ortlip-Sommers

Sarah Ortlip-Sommers is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Public Justice to aid immigrants harmed in for-profit detention centers, and hold accountable the corporations that profit from detaining immigrants, by expanding tort and statutory remedies through strategic litigation and legislative advocacy.

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Public Health Public Health

Nicola Morrow

Nicola Morrow is a 2023–2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working to combat government surveillance in criminal abortion cases with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Fourth Amendment Center.

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Aaron Bryce Lee

Aaron Bryce Lee is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the Action Lab, partnering with labor-oriented organizations and coalitions in the tri-state area to provide organizing and legal support, hold collective action trainings, and coordinate physical and virtual space for intra- and inter-workplace collaboration between essential workers who lack access to institutional power and representation by long-established unions.

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