Our Fellows
Meet the brilliant, creative legal fellows driving high-impact systemic change to advance economic and social justice
Learn more about the Justice Catalyst Fellowship and the Jonathan W. Cuneo COSAL/Justice Catalyst Fellowship
Bryce Wommack
Bryce Wommack is a 2026–2027 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Simonsen Sussman. Her fellowship project is focused on ensuring fair markets through novel litigation approaches.
Tascha Shahriari-Parsa
Tascha Shahriari-Parsa is a 2026–2027 Justice Catalyst Fellow with the NYU Wagner Labor Initiative. His project focuses on fighting worker exploitation by making it easier for state and local agencies to bring high-impact cases.
Lauren Taylor
Lauren Taylor is a 2026–2027 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Connecticut Fair Housing Center. She will pursue affirmative litigation to protect consumers from unfair and deceptive mortgage foreclosure practices, particularly relating to “zombie” second mortgages.
Carolina ("Lica") Porcile Barba
Lica Porcile's fellowship project is based at Democracy Defenders and is focused on challenging lawless immigration enforcement actions by federal agencies and officials. Lica will use strategic impact litigation to pursue justice for individuals illegally arrested, detained, or deported, and to deter future immigration enforcement abuses through accountability and transparency.
Sarah Southey
Sarah Southey's fellowship project is based at the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON). Her project aims to seek meaningful relief and accountability for workers after worksite immigration raids.
Luci Harrell
Luci Harrell is a 2026-2027 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Atlanta Community Support Project to combat discrimination in pro se court access by enforcing Georgia Open Records Act compliance on behalf of people in prison, shifting the culture surrounding records access rights and making post-conviction litigation more equitable for those who cannot afford an attorney.
Gretchen Knaut
Gretchen Knaut is a 2026-2027 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Center for Asset Retirement Accountability. Her work aims to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for the financial, environmental, and social costs of cleaning up inactive oil and gas wells and related infrastructure.
Malik Marshall
Malik Marshall is a 2026-2027 Justice Catalyst fellow working with the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy and UNITE HERE Local 11! to bring litigation against Los Angeles employers who violate the rights of subcontracted workers. His work is conducted in coordination with an ongoing organizing campaign to pass legislation to eliminate non-emergency subcontracting in Los Angeles.
Cynthia Murphy
Cynthia Murphy is a 2026-2027 Jonathan W. Cuneo COSAL/Justice Catalyst Fellow at Shinder Cantor Lerner LLP, a national Antitrust litigation firm dedicated to protecting free enterprise and promoting economic justice. Cynthia’s work focuses on holding powerful entities accountable to consumers by combating anticompetitive agreements and monopolization through all stages of litigation.
Jordan Cozby
Jordan Cozby is a 2026-2027 Jonathan W. Cuneo COSAL/Justice Catalyst Fellow at Salahi PC, where he will advance workers’ rights and enforcement of federal and state antitrust laws.
Zoë Mermelstein
Zoë Mermelstein is a 2026-2027 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid to challenge fraudulent and exploitative employer practices in recruiting and employing seasonal migrant workers.
Pranaya Pahwa
Pranaya Pahwa is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Upper Seven Law to litigate to enforce the right to protection and education against harmful and unfair corporate practices in the Montana Constitution.
Jaclyn Lee
Jaclyn Lee is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at ClientEarth to challenge illicit transfers of unproductive fossil fuel assets through strategic impact litigation in California and Colorado on behalf of classes of individuals that have suffered harm to their health or property due to the abandonment of polluting assets.
Naomi Chasek-Macfoy
Naomi Chasek-Macfoy is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at The Bronx Defenders to challenge electronic surveillance and its collateral impacts on non-citizens in immigration proceedings in the Bronx through a combination of strategic litigation, individual services, and community education.
Jahne Brown
Jahne Brown is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Wang Hecker LLP where she will litigate on behalf of incarcerated individuals to challenge systemic noncompliance with solitary confinement laws in New York's prisons and jails.
Victoria Paul
Victoria Paul is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law where she will engage in litigation and policy advocacy to eliminate the use of clinical algorithms that discriminate against patients based on race or ethnicity.
Lily Moore-Eissenberg
Lily Moore-Eissenberg is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working with the ACLU State Supreme Court Initiative to expand access to remedies under state constitutions and leverage unique elements of state law to protect individual rights through impact litigation in state courts.
Jack Stephens
Jack Stephens is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working with the MacArthur Justice Center to challenge the Louisiana Department of Corrections' dangerous, economically-driven practice of housing sentenced prisoners alongside pre-trial detainees in rural parish jails.
Jacqueline Arkush
Jacqueline Arkush is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Public Justice to expose private corrections corporations' wrongdoing by utilizing the public's right of access to court records and therefore facilitating the ability of legal and community-based advocates to hold these companies and the government accountable in both criminal and immigration detention contexts.
Marwa Sayed
Marwa Sayed is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project to investigate the usage of AI in Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering efforts at banking institutions and challenge their discriminatory effects.
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