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
Alyssa (Lee) Kennedy
Alyssa (Lee) Kennedy is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow working with the Legal Action Center to promote healthcare access and health equity for individuals with substance use disorders by combating discrimination in healthcare settings.
Poonam Daryani
Poonam Daryani will be joining Pregnancy Justice, a legal advocacy organization that fights to ensure that people do not lose their rights because of their capacity for pregnancy or pregnancy outcome, with a focus on those most at risk of state control and criminalization.
D Dangaran
D Dangaran is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working as Director of Gender Justice at Rights Behind Bars, where they focus on protecting the rights of trans people in prisons, jails, and immigration detention centers.
Blake Welborn
Blake Welborn is a 2023–2024 Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project Joint Fellow working to address local issues of pollution and environmental justice at the Harris County Attorney's Office.
Nicola Morrow
Nicola Morrow is a 2023–2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working to combat government surveillance in criminal abortion cases with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers' Fourth Amendment Center.
Lee Tremblay
Lee Tremblay is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Legal Voice to strengthen resilience and resistance to anti-abortion organizing in Idaho by ensuring that people who can get pregnant—particularly those with disabilities—and caretakers of disabled people are less likely to be forced to engage with the legal system.
Sydney Zazzaro
Sydney Zazzaro is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Emery Celli Brinkerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel to represent sexual assault survivors who sue their assailants and negligent institutions under New York’s Adult Survivor’s Act, and will create survivor-favorable litigation results that will broaden survivors’ access to justice and help future advocates succeed moving forward.
Amelia Caramadre
Amelia Caramadre is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow working on access to medication for opioid use disorder within the carceral and rehab industrial complexes with Northeastern University’s Health in Justice Action Lab.
Kathryn Koch
Kathryn Koch is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow building collaborative capacity for medical debt defense with Health Law Advocates.
Chris Vu
Chris Vu is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow pursuing policy and litigation strategies for people with serious mental illnesses in jail or experiencing homelessness with Coelho Center for Disability Law, Policy, and Innovation and Loyola’s Anti-Racism Center at LMU Loyola Law School.
Marisol Dominguez-Ruiz
Marisol Dominguez-Ruiz is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow working to enforce underused disability laws in carceral settings with ACLU's National Prison Project.
Sarah Lee Day
Sarah Lee Day is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts creating a statewide compliance report on recent victories and a Legislative Toolkit to assist other grassroots organizations to learn from and emulate Massachusetts’ successes.
Abigail Burman
Abigail Burman is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project Fellow focusing on self-managed abortions as a public health issue.
Lauren Gorodetsky
Lauren Gorodetsky is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the National Women's Law Center focusing on litigation efforts to promote and defend reproductive rights.
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