NYU Law students earned a wide range of fellowships and other honors this academic year, as organizations across the country recognized the Law School’s students for academic excellence and commitment to making real-world change through the legal profession.
Below are select awards granted during the 2020-2021 academic year:
Animal Legal Defense Fund Fellowship
Cotati, CA
Recipient: Asha Brundage-Moore ’20
EPIC Law Fellowship
Electronic Privacy Information Center, Washington, DC
Recipient: Thomas McBrien ’21
Equal Justice Initiative Fellowship
Montgomery, AL
Recipient: Eric Brown ’21
Equal Justice Works Fellowship
LatinoJustice PRLDEF, Central Islip, NY
The Brennan Center, New York, NY
Recipients: Meena Oberdick ’21 and Sonali Seth ’21
Ford Foundation Fellowship in Nonprofit Law
New York City
Recipients: Juan Martinez-Hill ’20
George N. Lindsay Fellowship
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC
Recipient: Alexander Brooks ’21
Health Law and Policy Clinical Fellowship
Center for Health Law & Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
Recipient: Julia Harvey ’21
Housing Justice Fellowship
Inner City Law Center, Los Angeles, CA
Recipient: Matthew Nussbaum ’21
Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowship
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project, Tucson, AZ
Bronx Defenders, Bronx, NY
Recipients: Mario Alvarez ’21 and Sofia Lopez Franco ’21
Innocence Project Legal Fellowship
New York, NY
Recipient: Vedan Anthony-North ’21
Institute for Policy Integrity Fellowship
NYU School of Law, New York, NY
Recipients: Bridget Pals ’21 and Laura Figueroa ’21
Jack Nelson-Dow Jones Fellowship
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, Washington, DC
Recipient: Tiffany Wong ’21
Justice Catalyst Fellowship
Justice Action Center, Los Angeles, CA
Recipient: Lauren Wilfong ’21
Lowenstein Sandler Pro Bono Fellowship
Lowenstein Center for the Public Interest, Roseland, NJ
Recipient: Aaron Ratoff ’21
Myron Beldock Civil Rights Fellowship
Beldock Levine & Hoffman, New York, NY
Recipient: Elizabeth Batkin ’21
Regional Public Interest Awards
Equal Justice Works
Recipient: Lizzy Wolowin ’21
Skadden Fellowship
ACLU of New Jersey, Newark, NJ
Recipient: Dillon Reisman ’21
Susman Godfrey Prize
Susman Godfrey
Recipients: Jemie Fofanah ’22 and Arijeet Sensharma ’22
UCLA Environmental Fellowship
Los Angeles County Counsel’s Office, Los Angeles, CA
Recipient: Andria So ’21
Posted August 10, 2021