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
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.
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.
Abigail Cruz
Abigail Cruz is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow supporting local community-led organizing campaigns fighting to improve working conductions, redress wage theft and combat retaliation among farmworkers in California's Central Coast region.
Henna Kaur Kaushal
Henna is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante in Mexico City, where Henna works to expose the exploitation of TN visa workers by US-based corporations and offer meaningful access to justice for TN workers who suffer labor rights abuses.
Alessandra Stevens
Alessandra Stevens is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow combatting the labor abuse to deportation pipeline with Sur Legal Collaborative.
Joseph Niver
Joseph Niver is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow working to address systemic employment violations in the logistics industry with Make the Road New Jersey.
Mustafa Isaac Filat
Mustafa Isaac Filat is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow protecting the data privacy of California's immigrant communities with Public Counsel.
Chris Opila
Chris Opila is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow challenging USCIS resettlement adjudication policies with the International Refugee Assistance Project.
Ming Tanigawa-Lau
Ming Tanigawa-Lau is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project building the first asylum-seeker-led systemic reform program in the United States.
Lauren Michel Wilfong
Lauren Michel Wilfong is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Justice Action Center working with detained people to challenge the legality of their immigration detention by fostering a rapid response habeas network, and creating a digital hub to support habeas practitioners.
Lee Ann Felder-Heim
Lee Ann Felder Heim is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area working to stop private, for-profit prison corporations from harming detained immigrants in their custody, hold them accountable for the harms they have already inflicted, and liberate immigrants who are currently in harm’s way.
Alexis Bay
Alexis Bay is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Texas Civil Rights Project using community lawyering to address issues of mistreatment of immigrants in detention.
Trillium Chang
Trillium Chang is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow with Innovation Law Lab working to ensure that detained asylum seekers in the Deep South have legal representation by leveraging data analysis to inform efforts and by activating pro bono counsel nationwide.
John Giammatteo
John Giammatteo is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Lutheran Social Services of New York's Immigration Legal Program coordinating the Second Circuit Asylum Monitoring Project.
David Chen
David Chen is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project designing and executing a nationwide strategy to enforce state law limitations on the authority of local law enforcement to detain immigrants in cooperation with ICE.
Joseph Meyers
Joseph Meyers is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the National Lawyers Guild's National Immigration Project challenging unconstitutional police practices at the border.
Ginger Cline
Ginger Cline is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Al Otro Lado using impact litigation to defend the rights of asylum-seeking individuals.
Elizabeth Lewis
Elizabeth Lewis is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Beyond Legal Aid working with community-based organizations to support LGBTQI+ immigrants.
Chelsea Gabriela Tejada
Chelsea Gabriela Tejada is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project working to protect the rights of noncitizen immigrants in government custody.
Stephanie Alvarez-Jones
Stephanie Alvarez-Jones is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid documenting and challenging conditions for immigrant mothers and children while coordinating a rapid-response team against abrupt immigration policy changes.
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