PILA Grant Job Locations, Summer 2012
The student-administered Public Interest Law Association summer fellowship program provides grants to law students who accept low-paying or unpaid public service internships. Fellowships are funded by voluntary contributions and the Law School Foundation. First-year fellowships are $3,500 and second-year fellowships are $6,000. PILA gave a record $483,000 to a record 109 grant recipients in 2012.
| Civil Legal Services | ||
| Bay Area Legal Aid | San Francisco | Jacob Kozaczuk |
| Blue Ridge Legal Services | Virginia | Kerry Jones |
| Community Legal Services of Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Kimberly Rolla |
| Community Legal Services of Philadelphia | Philadelphia | Jennifer Kye |
| DC Volunteer Lawyers Project | Washington, D.C. | Shannon Parker |
| Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles | Sabrina Talukder |
| Legal Aid Justice Center | Charlottesville, Va. | Michelle Carmon |
| Legal Aid Justice Center | Charlottesville, Va. | Helen O'Beirne |
| Legal Aid Justice Center | Charlottesville, Va. | Shannon Pollock |
| Legal Aid Justice Center | Charlottesville, Va. | Mario Salas |
| Legal Aid Justice Center | Charlottesville, Va. | Alexis Weyers |
| Legal Aid Justice Center | Charlottesville, Va. | Russell Horn |
| Legal Aid Justice Center (Civil Advocacy Program) | Charlottesville, Va. | Mercy Changwesha |
| Legal Aid Justice Center (JustChildren Program) | Charlottesville, Va. | Benjamin Aiken |
| Legal Aid Justice Center (JustChildren Program) | Charlottesville, Va. | Alexandra Meador |
| New York Lawyers for the Public Interest | New York | Ariel Linet |
| Northwest Immigrants Rights Project | Washington | Lieselot Whitbeck |
| Public Counsel Law Center | California | Carolyn Rumer |
| Rocky Mountain Children's Law Center | Denver | Donald Reinhard |
| Sanctuary for Families | New York | Caroline McInerney |
| Southeast Louisiana Legal Services | New Orleans | Christine Breton |
| Federal Government | ||
| Congressional Research Service - Library of Congress | Washington, D.C. | Jared Cole |
| Department of Education | Washington, D.C. | Cynthia Castillo |
| Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights | Washington, D.C. | Elisa Chen |
| Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights | Washington, D.C. | Ese Okuma |
| Department of Heath and Human Services | Maryland | Bonnie Latreille |
| Department of Justice | Washington, D.C. | Brian Kennedy |
| Department of Justice | Washington, D.C. | Thorne Maginnis |
| Department of Justice, Counterterrorism Section | Washington, D.C. | Zachary Gutterman |
| Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review | Arlington, Va. | Julianne Jaquith |
| Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review | Baltimore | Esther Cantor |
| Department of Justice Executive Office for Immigration Review | Miami | Lauren Bingham |
| Department of Justice, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch | Washington, D.C. | Casey White |
| Department of Justice, Civil Division, Fraud Section | Washington, D.C. | Emily Kveselis |
| Department of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Environmental Defense Section | Washington, D.C. | Sarah Buckley |
| Equal Employment Opportunity Commission | Washington, D.C. | Belinda Luu |
| Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission | Washington, D.C. | Christine Shu |
| Judge Ruggero Aldisert (Senior Status for the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals) | California | Kelsey Jones |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | Miami | Theresa Clark |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | Washington, D.C. | Jennifer Tian |
| U.S. Attorney's Office | California | Eleanor Winn |
| U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado | Denver | Robyn Bitner |
| U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia | Washington, D.C. | Caitlin Cipicchio |
| U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia | Washington, D.C. | Sean Suber |
| U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | Ethan Simon |
| U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia | Virginia | Sharif Gray |
| U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia | Virginia | Kate Naseef |
| U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia | Alexandria, Va. | Kristin Elysse Stolpe |
| U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia | Virginia | Gillian Whitford-McHale |
| U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey | Newark, N.J. | Sharon Casola |
| U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Texas | Dallas | Bradley Thompson |
| U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York | New York | Catherine Fata |
| U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Virginia | Charlottesville, Va. | Luke Leichty |
| International | ||
| Catholic Justice and Peace Commission | Liberia | Melissa Reilly-Diakun |
| International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | Arusha, Tanzania | Julia Lacovara |
| International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda | Arusha, Tanzania | Lisa Marshall |
| International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia | The Netherlands | Mariah Thompson |
| International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia | The Netherlands | Kendra Wergin |
| International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (Immediate Office of the Registrar) | The Netherlands | Lisa Kepple |
| Public Defenders | ||
| Alaska Public Defender Agency | Anchorage, Alaska | Nicole Frank |
| Appellate Advocates | New York | Jamie Marr |
| Charlottesville Public Defender | Charlottesville, Va. | Jenny Xie |
| Cook County Public Defender | Chicago | Matthew Jobe |
| Fairfax Public Defender Office | Fairfax, Va. | Edward Ledford |
| Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Virginia | Roanoke, Va. | Monica Tuck |
| Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Virginia | Virginia | Susan Tvrdy |
| Federal Public Defender for the Western District of Virginia | Charlottesville, Va. | Megan Coker |
| Maryland Office of the Public Defender | Baltimore | Sarika Reuben |
| Orleans Public Defenders | New Orleans | Rebecca Cohn |
| Northern Virginia Capital Defender Office | Arlington, Va. | Vanessa Nickerson |
| The Defender Association | Seattle | Aida Fitzgerald |
| Washington Defender Association | Seattle | Regan, Jeremy |
| Public Interest Organizations | ||
| Alliance Defense Fund (working at Global Centurion through the Alliance Defense Fund) | Phoenix and Washington, D.C. | Abigail Friedman |
| Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law | Washington, D.C. | Thomas Silverstein |
| Child Care Law Center | San Francisco | Lilit Sheymajash Edwards |
| EarthRights International | Washington, D.C. | Emily Ponder |
| Farmworker Justice | Washington, D.C. | Gilian Barkins |
| Legal Voice | Washington, D.C. | Nina Schwartz |
| National Fish and Wildlife Foundation | Washington, D.C. | Andrew Lee |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | Sacramento, Calif. | Jonathan Williams |
| Southern Environmental Law Center | Charlottesville, Va. | Keith Sado |
| Sierra Club | San Francisco | Dustin Elliott |
| Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression | Charlottesville, Va. | Paul Griffith |
| state and local government | ||
| Attorney General of Georgia | Atlanta | Denise Letendre |
| Albemarle County Commonwealth's Attorney's Office | Charlottesville, Va. | Grace Bielawski |
| Bexar County District Attorney's Office | San Antonio | Stephanie Beach |
| Charlottesville Commonwealth Attorney's Office | Charlottesville, Va. | Christina Guidry |
| Commonwealth Attorney's Office for Henrico County and Commonwealth Attorney's Office for Hanover County | Henrico and Hanover, Va. | Sarah Ulmer |
| Cook County State's Attorney's Office | Chicago | Sean Roberts |
| Culpeper County Commonwealth's Attorney's Office | Culpeper, Va. | Wade Gelbert |
| District Attorney General's Office, Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County | Nashville, Tenn. | Jeffrey George |
| Fulton County District Attorney's Office | Atlanta | Kimberly Myers |
| Jackson County Prosecutor's Office | Kansas City, Mo. | Evan Johnson |
| Kings County District Attorney's Office | New York | Gabriel Hippolyte |
| Kings County District Attorney's Office | New York | William Terrell |
| Lamar County and District Attorney's Office | Paris, Texas | Michael Small |
| Los Angeles Police Department, Office of the Inspector General | Los Angeles | Alyssa Fong-Kwan |
| New York County District Attorney's Office | New York | Scott Burton |
| New York State Attorney General's Office | Albany, N.Y. | SaeRhoMee Kim |
| New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety (Office of the Attorney General) | Trenton, N.J. | Monvan Hu |
| New York State Department of Environmental Conservation | Albany, N.Y. | Margo Ludmer |
| Philadelphia District Attorney's Office | Philadelphia | Jasmine Wade |
| Orange County Commonwealth's Attorney's Office | Orange, Va. | Nathan Hittle |
| San Diego County District Attorney's Office | San Diego | Dane Dodd |
| San Diego County District Attorney's Office | San Diego | Jason Norinsky |
| Suffolk County District Attorney's Office | Boston | Philip Messier |
| Suffolk County District Attorney's Office | Boston | Margaret Sullivan |
| Westchester County District Attorney's Office | White Plains, N.Y. | Simon Cataldo |
| clinic | ||
| Williams Mullen Immigration Clinic | Richmond, Va. | Joshua Tully |
- More on PILA Grants
- Where PILA Grantees Worked, Summer 2011
- Where PILA Grantees Worked, Summer 2010
- Where PILA Grantees Worked, Summer 2009
- Where PILA Grantees Worked, Summer 2008
- Where PILA Grantees Worked, Summer 2007
- Where PILA Grantees Worked, Summer 2006
- Where PILA Grantees Worked, Summer 2005
- Where PILA Grantees Worked, Summer 2004
- Where PILA Grantees Worked, Summer 2003
