Meet some of the fellows in the Program in Law and Public Service.

Class of 2021

Caroline Bodie

Hometown: Hampton, Virginia
Public Service Interests: Public defense

 

 

Ashley Cordero

Hometown: Roanoke, Virginia
Before UVA Law: Paralegal
Public Service Interests: Prosecution, criminal justice reform

 

Nathan Eagan

Hometown: Fort Collins, Colorado
Before UVA Law: Managed the marketing department at WebstaurantStore, an online retailer
Public Service Interests: Criminal justice reform, restorative/transformative justice, prison and policing alternatives

 

Jess Feinberg

Hometown: Palo Alto, California
Public Service Interests: Civil rights, government

 

 

Dominique Fenton

Hometown: Santa Barbara, California
Before UVA Law: Tribal court judge, criminal defense investigator, high school English teacher
Public Service Interests: Indigent defense, civil rights, Indigenous justice

 

Cody Fisher

Hometown: Nashville, Tennessee
Before UVA Law: Campus ministry; business analyst at Capital One
Public Service Interests: Public defense

 

Lindsay Gorman

Hometown: Raleigh, North Carolina
Before UVA Law: Director’s financial analyst at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, D.C.
Public Service Interests: Government, public policy, public integrity, voting rights

 

Hayley Hahn

Hometown: Fairfax, Virginia
Before UVA Law: Fulbright student at McGill’s Centre for Research on Children & Families researching social service provisions and legal protections for Indigenous children in Canada and the United States Public Service
Interests: Civil rights, racial justice, Native American rights, reproductive justice, gender justice, impact litigation

 

Sawyer Hicks

Hometown: Longmeadow, Massachusetts
Before UVA Law: Paralegal at a Baltimore-based nonprofit that provides civil legal assistance to Maryland’s incarcerated population
Public Service Interests: Indigent defense, criminal legal reform

 

Kristen James

Hometown: Massapequa, New York
Public Service Interests: Environmental justice, land conservation, climate change law and policy

 

Katharine Janes

Hometown: Mount Pleasant, Michigan
Public Service Interests: Juvenile justice, criminal justice reform, social policy, government

 

Hannah Keefer

Hometown: Ridgeville, South Carolina
Before UVA Law: Office assistant for the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of South Carolina; museum interpreter and marketing coordinator for The Powder Magazine, a colonial history museum in Charleston, South Carolina
Public Service Interests: National security, human rights, international law, immigration

 

Jeremy Kemp

Hometown: Sarasota, Florida
Public Service Interests: Environmental law generally, with particular interest in climate justice, public lands, and natural resource issues

 

Kyle McGoey

Hometown: New Orleans, Louisiana
Before UVA Law: Marketing strategist for a tech startup in New York
Public Service Interests: Civil liberties, policing reform, foreign policy and national security

 

Megan McKinley

Hometown: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Public Service Interests: Criminal justice reform, combating human trafficking

 

Gia Nyhuis

Hometown: Boulder, Colorado
Before UVA Law: Taught English in Quito, Ecuador, through WorldTeach
Public Service Interests: Public defense, immigration

 

Nooreen Reza

Hometown: Wise, Virginia
Before UVA Law: Paralegal case handler at Legal Aid Society of New York Housing Help Program in Brooklyn
Public Service Interests: Legal aid, community lawyering, housing justice, economic justice, public benefits

Eliza Schultz

Hometown: Brooklyn, New York
Before UVA Law: Researched disability and anti-poverty policy at the Center for American Progress
Public Service Interests: Workers’ rights, civil rights, economic justice

 

Perrin Tourangeau

Hometown: Denver, Colorado
Before UVA Law: Worked at a hike-in backcountry hotel in Glacier National Park for a summer before working as a paralegal intern and teaching LSAT preparation classes
Public Service Interests: Indigent defense, civil rights

 

Carly Wasserman

Hometown: Reisterstown, Maryland
Before UVA Law: Taught high school social studies in Baltimore City; worked as an academic coordinator at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Public Service Interests: Child advocacy, education law, juvenile justice, civil rights

 

Jolena Zabel

Hometown: Hastings, Minnesota
Before UVA Law: Worked at Kakenya’s Dream, a nonprofit organization based in rural Kenya focused on transforming communities through girls’ education and empowerment
Public Service Interests: International human rights

 

Class of 2022

Ida Abhari

Hometown: Irvine, California
Before UVA Law: Taught English in Azerbaijan and monitored humanitarian aid projects in Iraqi Kurdistan
Public Service Interests: Human rights, international law, labor/employment law (and their intersections)

 

Elizabeth Adler

Hometown: Voorhees, New Jersey
Before UVA Law: Worked on U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s reelection campaign in St. Louis, Missouri, and as a speechwriter in Washington, D.C.
Public Service Interests: Reproductive justice, racial equity, criminal justice reform

 

Abby Burke

Hometown: Chesterton, Indiana
Public Service Interests: Criminal law, environmental law, federal government work

 

Tyler Demetriou

Hometown: Virginia Beach, Virginia
Before UVA Law: Consulting and business operations
Public Service Interests: Environmental law, environmental justice, civil legal services

 

Caroline Elvig

Hometown: Louisville, Colorado
Before UVA Law: Worked at the Colorado Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel doing indigent defense work
Public Service Interests: Civil rights, criminal defense

 

Taylor Fatherree

Hometown: Napa, California
Before UVA Law: Service industry; office work; Fulbright ETA in Colombia 
Public Service Interests: Public defense and reform of the criminal legal system

 

Elizabeth Harris

Hometown: Houston, Texas
Before UVA Law: Legal assistant at a local Texas district attorney’s office working on child protective service (foster care) and mental health cases
Public Service Interests: Child advocacy, with a focus on juvenile justice and foster car

 

Christina Kelly

Hometown: Richmond, Virginia
Before UVA Law: Consultant for Ernst & Young
Public Service Interests: Racial and economic justice, civil rights, public defense, criminal justice reform, impact litigation

 

Meredith Kilburn

Hometown: Fort Mill, South Carolina
Before UVA Law: Taught English in Hangzhou, China, and Hualañé, Chile; worked in Chicago as an AmeriCorps volunteer coordinating federal court help desks for pro se litigants
Public Service Interests: Civil rights, impact litigation, racial justice, women’s rights, international law

 

Demi Kim

Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Before UVA Law: Worked as an English teacher in Korea for two years
Public Service Interests: Federal enforcement of employment or labor law

 

Cait Kutchi

Hometown: Goshen, Kentucky
Before UVA Law: Paralegal on a civil litigation team at a federal law enforcement agency
Public Service Interests: National security law, military justice, prosecution, government

 

Jordan LaPointe

Hometown: Ashburn, Virginia
Before UVA Law: College admissions counselor
Public Service Interests: Judge advocate generals, state and local government

Robert Mathai

Hometown: Boston, Massachusetts
Before UVA Law: National security
Public Service Interests: National security, government

 

Duncan Morrow

Hometown: Pleasanton, California
Before UVA Law: Research and organizing for a labor union
Public Service Interests: Indigent defense, labor law

 

 

Kathryn Neuhardt

Hometown: Westford, Massachusetts
Before UVA Law: Worked in the video production department of the Boston Red Sox, editing and shooting video and running video boards during games
Public Service Interests: Human rights, international law, criminal defense

 

Sujaya Rajguru

Hometown: Lakeland, Florida
Public Service Interests: Civil rights, racial justice

 

 

Eliza Robertson

Hometown: Norman, Oklahoma
Before UVA Law: Worked in nonprofit development as a member of the Episcopal Service Corps
Public Service Interests: Health equity, mental health law, American Indian law

 

Eric Seifriz

Hometown: Madison, Wisconsin
Before UVA Law: Substitute teacher PK-12, legislative policy aide, research assistant, camp counselor
Public Service Interests: Education law, public policy, government, environmental law, elections law

 

Wes Williams

Hometown: Roanoke, Virginia
Before UVA Law: Tech consultant for humanitarian nongovernmental organizations
Public Service Interests: Criminal justice reform, environmental protection, voting rights

 

Chris Yarrell

Hometown: Acworth, Georgia
Before UVA Law: Worked for five years in local government, most recently serving as policy advisor and director of external affairs at the New York City Mayor’s Office
Public Service Interests: Racial and economic justice, civil rights, public defense, criminal justice reform, impact litigation