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
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.
Andrew Loewen
Andrew Loewen is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project Fellow working at the DC Office of the Attorney General, empowering workers and small businesses with knowledge, resources, and legal actions through a campaign promoting antitrust enforcement privately and by the DC Office of the Attorney General, focusing on the unlawful non-compete agreements that restrict worker freedom and the bid-rigging that shuts out small businesses.
Kat Kerwin
Kat Kerwin is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Local Progress to combat racial disparities in traffic enforcement by building a coalition of municipal elected leaders to pass and implement driving equity policies nationwide.
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.
Sarah Ortlip-Sommers
Sarah Ortlip-Sommers is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the Family Justice Law Center, which uses impact litigation to challenge unconstitutional policies and practices in the child welfare system that inflict illegal and horrific abuse on families caught up in its web.
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.
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.
Natalie Cauley
Natalie Cauley is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the ACLU of Alaska to address the prison crisis happening in Alaska by creating and initiating an impact litigation campaign focused on the provision of medical and substance use treatment in state facilities.
Aaron Bryce Lee
Aaron Bryce Lee is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the Action Lab, partnering with labor-oriented organizations and coalitions in the tri-state area to provide organizing and legal support, hold collective action trainings, and coordinate physical and virtual space for intra- and inter-workplace collaboration between essential workers who lack access to institutional power and representation by long-established unions.
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.
Karen Muñoz
Karen Muñoz is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow joining LatinoJustice PRLDEF where she will support detained people, families, and advocates fighting the jail system in two Texas counties with advocate-led litigation and a policy strategy that will ultimately free people.
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 Speizman
Sydney Speizman is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow with EarthRights International supporting frontline communities seeking climate resilience and accountability for destructive oil & gas industry activities.
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.
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