Three Barnard Students Selected as Arthur Liman Public Interest Undergraduate Fellows
From left to rigth: Sara Colon, Emily
Donaldson, and Holly Snow. Photo:
Harold Shapiro at Yale.
|
Three Barnard students-- Sara Colon '06, Emily Donaldson '07 and Holly Snow '06--have been selected as Arthur Liman Public Interest Undergraduate Fellows for this upcoming summer. The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program offers support to college students working on public interest law projects. Colon will be interning at the Harlem Community Advocacy Partnership, Donaldson will be interning for the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) in New York, and Snow will be interning at the Indiana Domestic Violence Coalition and Prevention Network in Indianapolis and Bloomington.
Most recently, Colon interned for the Stanley Isaacs Neighborhood Center, where she helped coordinate internship and youth-mentoring programs for at-risk high school students. She also previously interned for K.I.D.S. (Kids In Distressed Situations), an organization that solicits clothing and school supplies from private companies and distributes them to community centers across the United States, and at a small immigration rights law firm in Madrid. Colon has also been active in campus groups, volunteering with Project Health and Everybody Wins. After her time at the Harlem Community Advocacy Partnership this summer, she will start law school in August 2006.
Donaldson began her work with NARAL last summer and fall, when she interned with NARAL Pro-Choice Virginia, working directly with the director on fundraising, education strategies and petitions. Because 2005 was a major state-wide election year for Virginia, Emily also gained a unique perspective on the role public interest groups play in the campaign process. This semester, she has been interning with NARAL Pro-Choice New York, working on the Emergency Contraception Access Campaign and passage of the Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Act in New York State.
Snow has previously interned at the Legal Aid Society Juvenile Rights Division in the Bronx. A native of Indiana, she also interned at the Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities, working on making the polling sites in Indiana accessible for people with disabilities.
Snow has also been a prominent campus leader, working with a group of Barnard and Columbia students, in collaboration with student organizations in other states to reform financial aid on a national level. The result of these efforts is the National Tuition Endowment Act, a completed bill that will be presented to Congress by supportive legislators within the various states. Snow has also served on Barnard's Representative Council and as a University Senator. She will start law school in August 2006.
The Barnard Liman fellows attended the Liman Public Interest Colloquium at Yale Law School on March 30-31, 2006. More information about the fellowship can be found at http://islandia.law.yale.edu/liman/ .
—4/26/06
|
