Meet the Fellow
Abbie Starker
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.
Access to Justice and Legal Innovation
Beyond Legal Aid
Beyond Legal Aid unites lawyers and activists in collaborative pursuit for justice.
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation provides free legal services and policy advocacy for California's rural poor.
Center for Restorative Justice at Suffolk University
The Center for Restorative Justice (CRJ) at Suffolk University fosters restorative practices in building just and equitable schools and communities.
Community Justice Project
Community Justice Project works with community organizers and grassroots groups in low-income communities of color in South Florida.
Community Legal Services
Community Legal Services provides free civil legal assistance to low-income Philadelphians.
Equal Justice Center
The Equal Justice Center provides legal representation to low -income families, workers, and communities in Texas.
FreeState Justice
FreeState Justice improving the lives of LGBTQ Marylanders.
Gerstein Harrow LLP
Gerstein Harrow LLP is a boutique litigation firm specializing in civil rights cases, complex issues and appeals, and novel crypto consumer protection matters.
Harvard Plaintiffs' Law Association
HPLA exists to support law students looking to become plaintiff-side attorneys who will represent the interests of victims, advocate for consumers’ rights and equal access to justice, and ensure that any person who is injured by the misconduct or negligence
Impact Fund
Impact Fund supports social justice for marginalized commmunities through impact litigation, grants, and training events.
Innovation Law Lab
Innovation Law Lab harnesses the power of technology, law, and activism to end mass incarceration in secret jails.
JC Fellow Marisol Dominguez-Ruiz writes on alternatives to incarceration
JC Fellow Marisol Dominguez-Ruiz writes on alternatives to incarceration.
JC Fellow Sarah Lee Day and Reproductive Equity Now launch Toolkits on expanding access to contraception and reproductive health care
JC Fellow Sarah Lee Day and Reproductive Equity Now launch Toolkits on expanding access to contraception and reproductive health care.
Legal Aid Justice Center
The Legal Aid Justice Center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty. Justice means racial justice, social justice, and economic justice.
Legal Aid Society
The Legal Aid Society provides civil and criminal legal services to New Yorkers.
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri
Legal Services of Eastern Missouri advances justice through legal representation, education, and supportive services.
Lutheran Social Services of New York
Lutheran Social Services of New York enables individuals to reach their full potential through its LIFE (Lutheran Initiatives for Enrichment) service programs.
Meet the Fellow
Mackenzie Halter
Mackenzie Halter is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Debt Collective designing and implementing a Bail Debt Dispute Tool.
Meet the Fellow
Michael Saavedra
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.
Catalyst Fellow David Nahmias publishes “The Changemaker Lawyer” in the California Law Review
The Changemaker Lawyer: Innovating the Legal Profession for Social Change, by Catalyst Fellow David Nahmias, was recently published in the California Law Review.
New York Legal Assistance Group
NYLAG combats economic, racial, and social injustice by advocating for people experiencing poverty or in crisis in New York.
New Haven Legal Assistance Association
New Haven Legal Assistance Association uses legal services to improve the lives of people living in poverty in Connecticut.
Partners for Justice
Partners for Justice places advocates in public defender offices across the country to empower low-income people in the criminal justice system.
People's Parity Project
People's Parity Project is organizing to unrig the legal system and build a system that values people over profits.
People’s Parity Project Founders Profiled in The New York Times
The New York Times recently profiled the founders of People’s Parity Project, a Justice Catalyst partner organization connecting law students and new attorneys to unrig the legal system and work towards a justice system valuing people over profits.
Public Counsel
Public Counsel specializes in delivering pro bono legal services.
Meet the Fellow
Sam Rosen
Sam Rosen is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow working on the Independent Defense Project with Gerstein Harrow.
COVID-19 Rapid Reaction/Systems Summer Institute
A collaboration between People’s Parity Project (PPP), the Systemic Justice Project (SJP), and Justice Catalyst (JC) announces a COVID-19 Rapid Reaction/Systems Summer Institute, which will employ law students in full-time (or volunteer part-time) summer legal fellowships, working with legal and
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid
Founded in 1970 to represent Texas farmworkers, TRLA has grown into the nation’s second largest legal aid provider and the largest in Texas.
Upturn
Upturn is an organization advancing equity and justice in design, government, and use of technology.
Urban Justice Center
Urban Justice Center supports new nonprofit organizations to promote social justice.
W. Haywood Burns Institute
The W. Haywood Burns Institute is an organization transforming the administration of justice.
‘21-’22 JC Fellow Anita Yandle on Unconstitutionality of Forced Arbitration Clauses
Anita Yandle, a ‘21-’22 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Public Justice focusing on access to justice for migrant farmworkers, wrote a blog post on the unconstitutionality of forced arbitration clauses.