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In 2009, Equal Justice America launched its Texans for Equal Justice campaign to greatly increase legal services to the poor by creating new postgraduate, summer and school year fellowships, putting more law students to work with Texas legal aid organizations.

The following law students have received fellowships from Equal Justice America to work in Texas on behalf of the poor.  Your support will help us continue and expand our program in Texas.   We need your help!

Please click the links below to read letters from the students and/or their supervisors on their EJA Fellowship experiences.

Fall 2011

  • Alyssa Desgranges (South Texas), Rochelle Garza (University of Houston), Mary Kharhoff (St. Mary's), Lisa Kinzer (University of Texas) and Katy Padilla (South Texas) worked at Disability Rights Texas.
  • David Wu (South Texas) worked at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid.

Summer 2011

  • Elizabeth Angelone (St. Mary's) worked at the Texas Advocacy Project in Austin.
  • Hannah Baker (NYU), Ubaldo Fernandez (UC Berkeley Boalt Hall), Jason Garcia (Texas Southern), Jacqueline Hagan (University of Texas), Colleen Lowry (Texas Southern), Rene Mai (University of Texas), Linda Pena (Univesity of Texas), Vanessa Smithwick (Texas Southern) and Leigh Ann Tognetti (University of Texas) worked at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid.
  • Abby Anna Batko-Taylor (University of Texas) worked at the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR) in Harlingen.
  • Jose Galvan (St. Mary's) and Audrey Lynn (University of Texas) worked at the Equal Justice Center in San Antonio and Austin.  
  • Kate Meals (St. Mary's) worked at Texas Appleseed in Austin.                
  • Ballari Mukherjee (University of Houston) worked at The Gulf Region Advocacy Center in Houston.
  • Ron Sung (University of Houston) worked at the Appleseed Foundation in Austin.

Fall 2010

  • Mary Futcher (University of Texas) and Ashley Patton (St. Mary's University) worked at the Texas Advocacy Project in Austin.

Summer 2010

  • Martha Buttry (University of Texas) worked at American Gateways in Austin.
  • Jordan Cohen (UC Hastings), Patrick Johnson (University of Texas), Jose Medina (NYU), Amy Smith (American University) and Veronica Williams (UC Hastings) worked at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid.
  • Richard Greene (University of Texas) worked at Advocacy, Inc. in Austin.
  • Tiffany Jackson (Texas Southern) worked at the Legal Aid of Northwest Texas.
  • Ms. Jerry Maddox (University of Texas) worked at Texas Appleseed.
  • Israel Saenz (University of Texas) worked at the Equal Justice Center in Austin.
  • Sara Puls (University of Texas) worked at the Texas Advocacy Project.
  • Robert Williams (Texas Southern) worked at the Texas Civil Rights Project.

Fall 2009

  • Jose Medina (NYU) continued his work at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid.

Summer 2009

  • Meghan Abigail (University of Texas) worked at Catholic Charities Legal Services in Dallas.
  • Jessica Cohen (University of Texas) worked at the Texas Advocacy Project.
  • Joseph Hinojosa (University of Texas) and John Moore (University of Pennsylvania) worked at the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR).
  • Yuri Jimenez (University of Texas) worked at the Equal Justice Center in Austin.
  • Jamie Larmond (University of Texas), Jose Medina (NYU) and Maulik Shah (Georgetown University) worked at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid.
  • Cheremma Lee (Texas Wesleyan) and Jose Martinez (University of Texas) worked at Texas Appleseed.
  • Jennifer Lee (Harvard) and Mary Murphy (University of Texas) worked at Advocacy Inc. in Austin.
  • Ryan Lovell (University of Texas), Jorge Vela (University of Texas) and Keneshia Washington (University of Texas) worked at American Gateways in Austin.
  • Olivia Lynch (Georgetown University) worked at the Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso.
  • Francis Sohn (Cornell) worked at Lone Star Legal Aid in Galveston.