Our Fellows
Meet the brilliant, creative legal fellows driving high-impact systemic change to advance economic and social justice
Learn more about the Justice Catalyst Fellowship and the Jonathan W. Cuneo COSAL/Justice Catalyst Fellowship
Jahne Brown
Jahne Brown is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Wang Hecker LLP where she will litigate on behalf of incarcerated individuals to challenge systemic noncompliance with solitary confinement laws in New York's prisons and jails.
Victoria Paul
Victoria Paul is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law where she will engage in litigation and policy advocacy to eliminate the use of clinical algorithms that discriminate against patients based on race or ethnicity.
Lily Moore-Eissenberg
Lily Moore-Eissenberg is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working with the ACLU State Supreme Court Initiative to expand access to remedies under state constitutions and leverage unique elements of state law to protect individual rights through impact litigation in state courts.
Jack Stephens
Jack Stephens is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working with the MacArthur Justice Center to challenge the Louisiana Department of Corrections' dangerous, economically-driven practice of housing sentenced prisoners alongside pre-trial detainees in rural parish jails.
Jacqueline Arkush
Jacqueline Arkush is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Public Justice to expose private correctional healthcare providers' wrongdoing by utilizing the public's right of access to court records and therefore facilitating the ability of legal and community-based advocates to hold these companies and the government accountable.
Marwa Sayed
Marwa Sayed is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project to investigate the usage of AI in Know Your Customer and Anti-Money Laundering efforts at banking institutions and challenge their discriminatory effects.
Caroline Markowitz
Caroline Markowitz is a 2025-2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the ACLU Women's Rights Project, where she works to challenge domestic workers' discriminatory exclusion from state laws guaranteeing job benefits and basic workplace protections through litigation under state constitutions, and by leveraging court victories to spur legislative change.
John Kauffman
John Kauffman is a 2025–2026 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the City of Chicago Law Department’s Affirmative Litigation Division, where he will combat deceptive student lending and for-profit education practices through litigation, policy reform, and public awareness efforts. His project aims to protect vulnerable borrowers and build a local enforcement model for advancing economic justice nationwide.
Nathan Eichten
Nathan Eichten is a 2025-2026 Jonathan W. Cuneo COSAL/Justice Catalyst Fellow at Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP, a recognized leader in U.S. and transatlantic antitrust litigation. The Firm’s Antitrust & Competition Practice Group relentlessly pursues justice on behalf of businesses and consumers, and has recovered billions on behalf of its clients. Mr. Eichten’s work focuses on combating price fixing, monopolization, and collusive agreements that restrict market competition.
Lydia Dal Nogare
Lydia Dal Nogare is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow, working at Upper Seven Law in Helena, Montana, where she will support ongoing litigation and identify additional opportunities for legal action to protect rights from state government overreach. Her project will utilize her organizing background to amplify the voices of those directly affected by harmful laws.
DaJonna Richardson
DaJonna Richardson is a 2024-2025 Jonathan W. Cuneo COSAL/Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Cuneo, Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP, which is a premier firm that arms consumers, workers and small businesses with tools for accountability against big businesses and cartels to challenge price-fixing, monopolization, mergers that reduce competition, and agreements between competitors that restrict supply or output.
Jason Taper
Jason Taper is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow, working with the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.) to use class action litigation to hold data brokers accountable.
Alyssa (Lee) Kennedy
Alyssa (Lee) Kennedy is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow working with the Legal Action Center to promote healthcare access and health equity for individuals with substance use disorders by combating discrimination in healthcare settings.
Vibha Kannan
Vibha Kannan is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project to support community-led organizing campaigns and aid immigrants in fighting the abusive practices of for-profit immigration bond companies through legislative advocacy and litigation under New York’s newly-enacted ban on electronic monitoring and unreasonable fees.
Olivia Fritz
Olivia Fritz is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center, where she works to return due process rights to low-income people on parole by building litigation to ensure the appointment of counsel for individuals at their parole revocation hearings.
Leah Fessler
Leah Fessler is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at MacArthur Justice Center Missouri in St. Louis, where she will fight to end Missouri Department of Corrections’ discriminatory policies of denying access to all three medications for opioid use disorder in Missouri prisons.
Poonam Daryani
Poonam Daryani will be joining Pregnancy Justice, a legal advocacy organization that fights to ensure that people do not lose their rights because of their capacity for pregnancy or pregnancy outcome, with a focus on those most at risk of state control and criminalization.
Michelle Dahl
Michelle Dahl will join the National Police Accountability Project, where she will create a comprehensive resource hub and network to empower public defenders in developing civil rights litigation to address constitutional violations they see in their communities.
Andrea Ashburn
Andrea Ashburn is a Justice Catalyst Fellow at the New York Legal Assistance Group where they develop impact litigation lawsuits in the areas of consumer protection and tenants’ rights.
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