Send us your news, and your emails!
We like to keep track of what our alumni are doing, and to let them know what’s new with NCYL. Please keep us up to date on where you’re practicing, if you got married, had a child, or auditioned for “Next Top Model.” Also, please provide us with your emails, so we can keep in touch. Send an email to Tracy Schroth at tschroth(at)youthlaw.org or Dan DeVries at ddv(at)youthlaw.org. Thank you!
June 2007 Updates:
Brittany Armstrong, an undergraduate intern for NCYL last summer, has completed her first year of law school at the University of San Francisco. This summer she is working at the Contra Costa Public Defenders office, and will study law abroad at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Jeanne Finberg, a former staff attorney at NCYL, is leaving her job as Executive Director of the National Senior Citizens Law Center to join the California Department of Justice, Public Rights Division, as a Deputy Attorney General. She will be responsible for enforcing consumer protections as part of a national group of AGs.
Meghan Lang, a NCYL staff attorney and Equal Justice Fellow from 2002 through 2004, and her husband Ron Levi welcomed their first child, a son, Connor, in May.
Sunny Rosenfeld Lerner, a NCYL law clerk in summer and fall 2006 has a new job working on healthcare reform in California prisons. U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson placed the management and delivery of health care in those prisons into receivership last year, and Sunny is part of the Receiver’s staff. Sunny has two children, a son, Jeremiah, 2, and a daughter, Ellie, 4 ½.
Avani Mehta, now Avani Mehta-Sood, who clerked at the Center in summer 2001, has graduated from Yale Law School. She has been working as a Bernstein International Human Rights Fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights in New York City. She recently authored a report entitled “Litigating Reproductive Rights: Using Public Interest Litigation and International Law to Promote Gender Justice in India.” It is available at www.reproductiverights.org/pub_bo_litigatingreprorights.html.
Yolande Rogers, now Yolande Bourgeois, an attorney in NCYL’s St. Louis office between 1978 and 1980, is now an associate judge in Cook County (Chicago) Illinois. Prior to her judgeship, Yolande was General Counsel for the City Colleges of Chicago.
Caroline Rothert, a NCYL law clerk in summer 2005 is clerking at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago this summer, working with that organization’s Children’s Law Project. Last summer she clerked at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid in Austin, doing juvenile delinquency defense. A student at Harvard Law School, Caroline is also pursuing a public policy degree. After finishing school, she hopes to find a child advocate position in Chicago
Ben Siegel, who clerked at NCYL in summer 2004, graduated this spring with a dual degree – a JD and Masters in Public Affairs (MPA) – from the University of Texas School of Law and LBJ School of Public Affairs. For the next year, he will be clerking for Judge Thomas M. Reavley, of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in Houston. Ben married Juanita Villa in September 2006 and plans to return to the San Francisco Bay Area after his clerkship ends.
Lucy Wang, an undergraduate intern at the Center in summer 2004, has completed her second year at Yale Law School. She is working this summer in San Francisco at Bingham McCutchen LLP.
|
