Our Fellows

Meet the brilliant, creative legal fellows driving high-impact systemic change to advance economic and social justice

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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.

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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.

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Ensuring Fair Markets Elaheh Farmand Ensuring Fair Markets Elaheh Farmand

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Andrew Loewen

Andrew Loewen is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst/Public Rights Project Fellow working at the DC Office of the Attorney General, empowering workers and small businesses with knowledge, resources, and legal actions through a campaign promoting antitrust enforcement privately and by the DC Office of the Attorney General, focusing on the unlawful non-compete agreements that restrict worker freedom and the bid-rigging that shuts out small businesses.

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Yulie Landan

Yulie Landan is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild to conduct systemic litigation on behalf of immigrants detained in Louisiana and Virginia to shut down detention centers and provide direct representation to individuals that remain detained while decarceration efforts continue.

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