Our Fellows

Meet the brilliant, creative legal fellows driving high-impact systemic change to advance economic and social justice

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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