Author Archive
We are very excited to welcome the Public Interest Guest Speaker for this coming Saturday (9/29), Esha Bhandari!
Bio: Esha Bhandari is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. She holds a B.A., First Class Honours, from McGill University, where she received the Allen Oliver Gold Medal in political science, and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a James Kent and Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and recipient of the Robert Noxon Toppan Prize in constitutional law and the Archie O. Dawson Prize for advocacy. During law school, Esha served as an Articles Editor for the Columbia Law Review, participated in the Human Rights Clinic, and completed an externship in the Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Law Unit. She spent a summer working on refugee rights matters at the Legal Resources Centre in Cape Town. Esha holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. Prior to joining the ACLU, Esha clerked for the Honorable Amalya L. Kearse of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Ask Esha your questions about public interest law:
If you’re curious about Esha’s experiences in law school or public interest law, please submit your questions (before this Saturday, September 29th) in the comments below.
We are very excited to welcome the Public Interest Guest Speaker for this coming Saturday (9/22), Alexis Offen!
Bio: Alexis Offen is the general counsel and senior policy advisor in the Mayor's Office of Operations, where she oversees strategy, policy and implementation for major Mayoral initiatives. Alexis' projects have covered a range of issues, from how to spend the City's federal stimulus dollars to streamlining real estate development projects to finding new efficiencies and cost-savings in human resources and labor relations . Alexis also oversees all City rulemaking to ensure operational efficiency and customer service. Prior to working in the Mayor's Office, Alexis worked as a real estate and government affairs attorney at Greenberg Traurig, an international law firm based in New York, and was the Deputy Policy Director for Andrew Cuomo's successful Attorney General Campaign in 2006. Alexis attended Harvard College and Fordham Law School and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.
Ask Alexis your questions about public interest law:
If you’re curious about Alexis' experiences in law school or public interest law, please submit your questions (before this Saturday, September 22nd) in the comments below.
We are very excited to welcome the Public Interest Guest Speaker for this coming Saturday (9/15), Marisa Cabrera!
Bio: Marisa Cabrera is a criminal defense attorney working as Appellate Counsel at the Center for Appellate Litigation. CAL is a not-for-profit law firm located in lower Manhattan, handling appeals and post-conviction proceedings on behalf of indigent criminal defendants in cases assigned by the Appellate Division, First Department. Marisa graduated with a B.A. in psychology in 2007 from Williams College in Williamstown, MA. In 2011, Marisa graduated cum laude from American University Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C. where she worked as a teaching assistant for a first-year legal writing course. Prior to working at CAL, Marisa worked as a law clerk for the Law Offices of Gary M. Gilbert & Associates, a plaintiff-side employment discrimination law firm, and as a judicial intern for Hon. Ariel Belen at the Appellate Division, Second Department. Additionally, while in law school, Marisa worked as a student attorney at the DC Law Students in Court civil litigation clinical program where she represented low-income tenants in DC landlord-tenant and small claims courts.
Ask Marisa your questions about public interest law:
If you’re curious about Marisa’s experiences in law school or public interest law, please submit your questions (before this Saturday, September 15th) in the comments below.
We are very excited to welcome the Public Interest Guest Speaker for this coming Saturday (9/8), Nicole Hallett!
Bio: Nicole Hallett is a staff attorney and former Skadden Fellow at Community Development Project (CDP). Her work at CDP supports worker centers and community groups organizing low-wage workers in New York City, particularly domestic workers. Before joining CDP, Nicole clerked for the Honorables Mark R. Kravitz (D.Conn.) and Rosemary S. Pooler (2d Cir.). She is a 2008 graduate of Yale Law School, where she received the C. LaRue Munson Prize for excellence in a law school clinical program. A Truman and Luce Scholar, Nicole received her master’s degree from the University of Oxford’s School of Development Studies and a B.A. summa cum laude from DePauw University.
Ask Nicole your questions about public interest law:
If you’re curious about Nicole’s experiences in law school or public interest law, please submit your questions (before this Saturday, September 8th) in the comments below.
We are very excited to welcome the Public Interest Guest Speaker for this coming Saturday (9/1), Natalie Orr!
Bio: Natalie Orr graduated from Columbia Law School in 2011 and is currently the Chadbourne & Parke fellow at The Door Legal Services, where she represents low-income young people in immigration matters. She has about 70 clients at a time, all aged 12-21, whom she helps
to obtain greencards and/or relief from removal through Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Asylum, U visas, Prosecutorial Discretion, and now Deferred Action. After graduating from Harvard College in 2006 with a degree in History and Literature, Natalie spent two years as a paralegal at The Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Practice in the Bronx, where she assisted in both child abuse/neglect and juvenile delinquency litigation. During law school, she wrote for the Human Rights Law Review, served as an Articles Editor for the Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual, and interned at the ACLU National Prison Project. She also participated in externships at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York. She spent her second summer at Simpson Thacher in New York.
Ask Natalie your questions about public interest law:
If you’re curious about Natalie's experiences in law school or public interest law, please submit your questions (before this Saturday, September 1st) in the comments below.