Current and Past
Herbert & Nell Singer Fellows
Class of 2024-2025
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Connecticut Fair Housing Center
Fellowship Project:
Addressing housing insecurity for low-income Connecticut renters through a movement lawyering model that includes: (1) providing direct representation of tenant unions and their members; (2) facilitating participatory defense meetings and other workshops; (3) providing legal support for collective bargaining and policy advocacy goals; and (4) providing legal, educational, and advocacy support for social housing development.Law School:
University of Connecticut School of Law -
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New Haven Legal Assistance Association
(see Class of 2023-2024) -
Center for Children's Advocacy
(See Class of 2023-2024)
Class of 2023-2024
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New Haven Legal Assistance Association
Fellowship Project:
Using direct representation and community advocacy to protect the right to access special education services for justice-involved youth with disabilities, including currently incarcerated students and those supervised by juvenile probation.Law School:
University of Connecticut School of Law -
Center for Children's Advocacy
Fellowship Project:
Focusing on the legal needs of LGBTQ youth in Connecticut, advocating for both individual youth through medical-legal partnerships, and working on systemic education and healthcare issues throughout the state. The project will include working as the legal fellow with the Yale Gender Program.Law School:
Yale Law School -
Connecticut Fair Housing Center
(See Class of 2022-2023) -
Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services
(See Class of 2022-2023)
Class of 2022-2023
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Connecticut Fair Housing Center
Fellowship Project:
Addressing the barriers to home ownership and inequitable lending and foreclosure practices as they impact BIPOC and other protected classes in Connecticut.Law School:
Western New England University School of Law -
Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services
Fellowship Project:
Providing legal representation to detained and non-detained immigrants in removal proceedings in Connecticut, and developing written resources for individuals navigating immigration court on their own so that they may advocate for themselves.Law School:
Boston University School of Law -
New Haven Legal Assistance Association
(See Class of 2021-2022)
Class of 2021-2022
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Center for Children’s Advocacy
Fellowship Project:
Eliminate barriers to legal representation for abused, neglected, and abandoned older youth and young adults in Connecticut.Law School:
Yale Law School -
New Haven Legal Assistance Association
Fellowship Project: Helping low-income tenants in New Haven understand and enforce their rights so that they can secure safe, affordable housing and combat gentrification through direct representation, and ensuring that New Haven carries out the promise of the Affordable Housing Commission.
Law School: Stanford Law School
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Greater Hartford Legal Aid
(See Class of 2020-2021) -
Connecticut Veterans Legal Center
(See Class of 2020-2021)
Class of 2020-2021
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Greater Hartford Legal Aid
Fellowship Project:
Trauma-Informed Legal AdvocacyLaw School:
University of South Carolina School of Law -
Connecticut Veterans Legal Center
Fellowship Project:
Strategic Litigation for Veterans Mental Health BenefitsLaw School:
Yale Law School -
New Haven Legal Assistance Association
(See Class of 2019-2020) -
Connecticut Veterans Legal Center
(See Class of 2019-2020)
Class of 2019-2020
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Connecticut Veterans Legal Center
Fellowship Project:
Post-9/11 Veteran Sexual Trauma and Combat-Related Mental Illness AdvocacyLaw School:
Western New England University School of Law -
New Haven Legal Assistance Association
Fellowship Project:
Immigrant Wage Theft and Workers’ Rights AdvocacyLaw School:
Northeastern University School of Law -
Greater Hartford Legal Aid
(See Class of 2018-2019)
Class of 2018-2019
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Greater Hartford Legal Aid
Fellowship Project:
Legal Initiative for Immigrant VictimsLaw School:
University of Connecticut School of Law -
New Haven Legal Assistance Association
Fellowship Project:
Mitigating Collateral Civil Consequences from Criminal ConvictionsLaw School:
Quinnipiac University School of Law -
Connecticut Legal Services
Fellowship Project:
Immigrant Rights for Domestic Violence Victims, Victims of Crime, and ChildrenLaw School:
Quinnipiac University School of Law