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Erin Archerd
Issue date: 1/18/07 Section: News
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Harvard Law School alums and students have once again earned more Skadden Fellowships than those of any other law school. The fellowships pay a one-year salary of $46,000 and benefits, allowing fellows to pursue public interest work in a variety of fields.
Harvard has traditionally been quite strong in the number of Skadden Fellowships its students receive, and although this year's numbers fell from nine to six, HLS still topped the list. Three current 3Ls - Sarah Bolling, Emily Kernan, and Spring Miller - and three recent alums - Michael Grinthal, Jesse Newmark, and Michael Stein - have earned the prestigious public interest fellowship, which is renewable for a second year of funding.
Each of the three current students receiving a fellowship has a very different focus for her project. Spring Miller will be promoting the health and safety workplace rights of migrant agricultural workers at Southern Migrant Legal Services (SMLS) in Nashville, Tennessee. Miller had done immigrant rights work in Nashville prior to coming to law school and met Jennifer Rosenbaum '02, a former Skadden Fellow at SMLS.
"Most of the clients I will be representing are limited English proficient, and most of them don't get protection from state and federal agencies that they are owed under state and federal worker protection laws," Miller said. "I will both represent them in individual cases, and advocate state and federal agencies to do a better job of protecting them in their workplaces."
Emily Kernan will be representing foster children with mental health problems in New York City. Kernan's interest in the foster care system began at the age of seven, when her family took in a five-year-old girl named Kathy who had been physically and sexually abused by her parents. Although Kathy only lived with her family for three months, the experience started Kernan's lifelong passion for child development, leading her to focus in the area while earning her degree in psychology. Here at HLS, she is co-president of Child and Youth Advocates (CYA) and is active in the Child Advocacy Program. She spent her 1L summer at the National Center for Youth Law and last summer at The Door's Legal Services Center.
Harvard has traditionally been quite strong in the number of Skadden Fellowships its students receive, and although this year's numbers fell from nine to six, HLS still topped the list. Three current 3Ls - Sarah Bolling, Emily Kernan, and Spring Miller - and three recent alums - Michael Grinthal, Jesse Newmark, and Michael Stein - have earned the prestigious public interest fellowship, which is renewable for a second year of funding.
Each of the three current students receiving a fellowship has a very different focus for her project. Spring Miller will be promoting the health and safety workplace rights of migrant agricultural workers at Southern Migrant Legal Services (SMLS) in Nashville, Tennessee. Miller had done immigrant rights work in Nashville prior to coming to law school and met Jennifer Rosenbaum '02, a former Skadden Fellow at SMLS.
"Most of the clients I will be representing are limited English proficient, and most of them don't get protection from state and federal agencies that they are owed under state and federal worker protection laws," Miller said. "I will both represent them in individual cases, and advocate state and federal agencies to do a better job of protecting them in their workplaces."
Emily Kernan will be representing foster children with mental health problems in New York City. Kernan's interest in the foster care system began at the age of seven, when her family took in a five-year-old girl named Kathy who had been physically and sexually abused by her parents. Although Kathy only lived with her family for three months, the experience started Kernan's lifelong passion for child development, leading her to focus in the area while earning her degree in psychology. Here at HLS, she is co-president of Child and Youth Advocates (CYA) and is active in the Child Advocacy Program. She spent her 1L summer at the National Center for Youth Law and last summer at The Door's Legal Services Center.
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