Justice Catalyst Announces 2025 - 2026 Fellowship Projects
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Renée Schomp, Deputy Director
Email: fellowships@justicecatalyst.org
https://www.justicecatalyst.org/fellowships
JUSTICE CATALYST ANNOUNCES 2025 - 2026 FELLOWSHIP PROJECTS
Justice Catalyst is proud to announce its 2025 - 2026 fellowship projects. Justice Catalyst Fellowship projects are hosted at public interest organizations, unions, plaintiffs’ firms, and state, local, and tribal government agencies around the United States, furthering Justice Catalyst’s mission of activating path-breaking approaches to lawyering for social and economic justice that have real-world impact and improve the lives of those denied access to justice.
Projects selected include proposals from:
Jacqueline Arkush, who will work at Public Justice, to develop affirmative litigation and expose private correctional healthcare providers’ wrongdoing and facilitate the ability of systems-impacted community members to hold companies and the government accountable.
Jahne Brown, who will work at Wang Hecker LLP to enforce existing laws (HALT Act and 42 U.S.C. § 1983) that regulate the use of solitary confinement and who will also research and develop a challenge to a mayoral Executive Order that has allowed the continued use of solitary confinement in New York City.
John Kauffman, who will work at The City of Chicago Law Department’s Affirmative Litigation Division, to leverage the investigative, enforcement, and advocacy powers of the nation’s third-largest city to combat deceptive practices in student lending and for-profit education through litigation, policy reform, and public awareness campaigns, creating a comprehensive model for protecting vulnerable borrowers and advancing economic justice nationwide.
Caroline Markowitz, who will work at ACLU Women’s Rights Project, to use litigation under state constitutions to challenge domestic workers’ discriminatory exclusion from laws guaranteeing safe workplaces, job benefits, and basic protections—building on recent positive rulings for similarly excluded farmworkers—and leverage court victories to spur legislative change.
Lily Moore-Eissenberg, who will work at 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.
Victoria Paul, who will work at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, to address racial health disparities affecting Black and Brown patients nationwide by investigating racially discriminatory clinical algorithms while engaging in strategic impact litigation and policy advocacy to challenge and raise awareness of racially biased clinical algorithms.
Marwa Sayed, who will work at Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.), to develop class action claims under federal, state, and local civil rights statutes to challenge anti-Muslim, South Asian, Middle Eastern, Black, and North African banking discrimination perpetuated by a growing array of artificial intelligence anti-money laundering and know your customer tools.
Jack Stephens, who will work at Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center (Louisiana), to bring targeted litigation in North Louisiana to combat the overwhelming violence arising from the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections' (“DPSC”) failing oversight of rural parish jails used to cheaply warehouse over 15,000 state-sentenced prisoners alongside pre-trial detainees.
Justice Catalyst is also proud to partner with the Committee to Support Antitrust Laws, or COSAL, for a second year of the Jonathan W. Cuneo COSAL/Justice Catalyst Fellowship. The goal of the fellowship is to enable new lawyers to pursue antitrust litigation as a crucial tool for accountability within the U.S. legal system. The 2025-2026 Jonathan W. Cuneo COSAL/Justice Catalyst fellowship project will be carried out by:
Nathan Eichten, who will work at Scott+Scott to undertake antitrust litigation with a focus on conducting research on diverse markets and speaking with market participants to determine the existence of potentially anticompetitive conduct committed by their competitors.
A full list of fellows will be available at https://www.justicecatalyst.org/fellowships/fellows. If you are a law student or recent graduate interested in a 2025-2026 fellowship, or an organization interested in hosting a fellowship project, please visit https://www.justicecatalyst.org/fellowships or contact fellowships@justicecatalyst.org
Justice Catalyst activates path-breaking approaches to social justice lawyering and affirmative litigation that have real-world impact and improve the lives of low-wage workers, the poor, and the marginalized. More information at https://www.justicecatalyst.org/fellowships