Renee Hernandez Rodriguez is a Summer Law Clerk with the Debtors’ Prison Project. She is based in Northern California. Renee helps to develop and litigate cases nationwide challengingpolicies that criminalize poverty. Renee is a rising 3L and Public Interest Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. There, she participated in the Tenants’ Rights Project, where she drafted answers to eviction lawsuits and demand…
Mariam Elbakr is a Skadden Fellow with the Debtors’ Prison Project. Her fellowship focuses on challenging an arcane Tennessee law that imposes public defender fees on people who cannot afford to pay. This is a continuation of her work in law school with the Policy Advocacy Clinic, where she challenged court-imposed monetary sanctions on youth…
Dan is director of the Environmental Enforcement Project. Previously, he served as the senior attorney. Dan graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law in 2010, Order of the Coif, and has been practicing public interest environmental law ever since. He enforces our nation’s environmental laws against polluters, representing the interests of individuals, local…
Jim Hecker, Environmental Enforcement Project Senior Attorney at Public Justice, received an undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Illinois, and was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Jim received his J.D., magna cum laude from the University of Illinois College of Law. He earned distinctions as a member of the Order of the Coif, and…
Haley Nicholson is a staff attorney with the Environmental Enforcement Project. Before joining Public Justice, Haley was a Legal Fellow with Earthrise Law Center and an Adjunct Professor at Lewis & Clark Law School. During her time at Earthrise Law Center, Haley primarily focused on litigation against administrative agencies for inadequate environmental protection. Her practice…
Hannah is an experienced paralegal who has worked in both the public and private sectors. She was most recently at the Colorado Attorney General’s Office as a Senior Paralegal where she worked with the team that litigated the Supreme Court case, Chiles v. Salazar, regarding Colorado’s law banning “conversion therapy.” Prior to that, she was a Senior Paralegal…
Blythe is a summer law clerk in the Environmental Enforcement Project. She is a 3L at Vermont Law & Graduate School. She has spent three semesters in the Vermont Law School Environmental Advocacy Clinic representing public interest clients in federal litigation and administrative proceedings under the National Environmental Policy Act and the National Forest Management Act.…
Adele P. Kimmel, Director of Public Justice’s Students’ Civil Rights Project, is based in the DC Headquarters of Public Justice. Since joining the law firm in 1994, Adele has worked on wide range of civil rights cases, representing prisoners and immigrant detainees who were beaten, sexually assaulted, denied adequate medical care, and killed; women intercollegiate…
Alexandra Brodsky is the litigation director of Public Justice’s Students’ Civil Rights Project. She supervises the SCRP’s docket of cases challenging sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and racism in schools. Alexandra also collaborates with other Public Justice teams to litigate suits concerning access to justice, workers’ rights, disability discrimination, and civil rights violations within the criminal legal…