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2L Public Interest Mentors2015 - 2016between school effectiveness and principal turnover. Asa 1L at Penn Law, Melissa served as co-director of theServicemembers and Veterans Legal Assistance Project andas a board member for the Equal Justice Foundation, astudent-run non-profit that raises funds for students to workin the public interest. She spent the summer working in theU.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New Yorkand is looking forward to pursuing pro bono and publicinterest at Stanford and getting to know the incomingstudents interested in public service.Karen DingKaren was born in Ithaca, NY, but moved toAuburn, AL before she turned one. After thebirth of her younger sister and eight yearsin Alabama, her family moved out to IowaCity, IA and then to Davis, CA, where herparents still live today. She went to HarvardUniversity for college, graduating in 2012 with a degreein Economics. Before law school, Karen worked for threeyears at the Boston Consulting Group’s Chicago office.At Stanford, she co-chaired the Stanford Public InterestLaw Foundation’s annual Bid for Justice Auction and willcontinue as Auction VP and Treasurer this year. She is alsoa board member for the Social Security Disability Projectpro bono and involved in the Stanford Prison EducationProgram. Karen spent her 1L summer at the U.S. Attorney’sOffice in Chicago, IL, and is excited to be participating inthe Youth and Education Law Clinic this winter. In her freetime, she is an avid drinker of tea, reader of science fictionnovels, and lover of all things fitness.Gemma DonofrioGemma grew up on Long Island, NewYork. She graduated from HaverfordCollege in 2012, with a major in PoliticalScience and a concentration in Peace andConflict Studies. Before law school, sheworked in anti-hunger policy advocacy,and then served as program manager for a domesticviolence drop-in center in San Francisco. At Stanford,she is a coordinator of Housing Pro Bono, developmentco-editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and CivilLiberties, academic co-chair of If/When/How: Lawyeringfor Reproductive Justice, on the board of Shaking theFoundations, and a member of the Race and CriminalJustice Reading Group. Gemma loved her 1L summer jobwith the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York AttorneyGeneral’s Office, working on Title IX athletic opportunitiesfor girls, reproductive rights, and retail discrimination, andshe is more excited than ever about a career as a civil rightslawyer.Savannah FletcherSavannah was born in New York City butgrew up on Whidbey Island, Washington.She graduated from Columbia Universityin 2014 as both an English and archaeologymajor. During college, Savannahplayed on Columbia’s Varsity VolleyballTeam and volunteered as a mentor to high schoolers inHarlem. After college, she worked as an archaeologistin Northern California and Arizona. Realizing law was astronger tool for change, she is now at Stanford pursuinga joint JD and Masters in Environment and Resources. AtStanford Savannah is President of the Environmental LawSociety, the Native American Law Students Association,the Environmental Law Pro Bono, an editor for theEnvironmental Law Journal, the Community ServiceChair for Women of Stanford Law, and the PartnershipsChair for American Constitution Society. Savannahis also looking forward to putting on the Shaking theFoundations Conference this fall as well as working for theEnvironmental Law Clinic this winter. After spending her1L summer working at the Department of Justice’s Officeof Tribal Justice, Savannah looks forward to spending her2L summer in Alaska working on environmental justice andNative American rights. Outside of class, if you’re lookingto discuss great camping spots, biking around Palo Alto, orhoping to play some sand volleyball, Savannah’s your gal.Drew FloodDrew grew up in San Diego and attendedUC Berkeley for his undergraduate,studying History and minoring in GlobalPoverty. After spending two of his collegesummers investigating for indigentdefense advocates in Washington, D.C.,Drew worked on death penalty cases at the LouisianaCapital Assistance Center in New Orleans as a mitigationspecialist. Following his time at LCAC, Drew served as atutor and mentor at an all-boys, all-African-American highschool in Chicago, supporting a group of thirty 9th gradersacademically and with everything else. In the year prior tolaw school, Drew worked a harvest at a winery in Oregonand traveled through Europe and South America withfamily and friends. He spent his 1L summer doing capitalwork back in the South at the Southern Center for HumanRights and hopes to work after school as a public defender.At SLS, Drew is a co-organizer of the Stanford NationalLawyers Guild chapter and the Stanford Critical LawSociety, as well as one of the co-directors of the Housing ProBono. Drew tries to take a break from the law school grindas often as possible and loves to run, hike in the beautifulBay Area, and find fun new karaoke dive bars.

2L Public Interest Mentors2015 - 2016Aaron ForbathAaron grew up in sunny Austin, Texas.He graduated from Wesleyan Universityin 2012 with a degree in History. Beforestarting law school, Aaron worked atthe Habeas Corpus Resource Center(HCRC) in San Francisco – a State officethat provides post-conviction defense for indigent deathrow inmates. At Stanford, he volunteers with the HousingPro Bono, works on the Environmental Law Journal, andis helping to organize Shaking the Foundations 2016. Heis also the Karaoke Captain for the Environmental LawSociety. Aaron spent his 1L summer with the Sierra Club’sEnvironmental Law Program. He enjoys soccer and ultimatefrisbee, collecting dad hats, and exploring the beautifulhills of California.Zach GlubiakZach grew up in rural Virginia beforeleaving his hometown of Walkerton –with its lone stop sign and population of(approximately) 85 people – for the brightlights of New York City and ColumbiaUniversity. He graduated in 2012 with adegree in history and became a high school teacher in theNew York City public school system through Teach forAmerica. For three years, he taught ninth grade GlobalHistory, served as a student advisor, and coached boys’soccer and lacrosse. As he is interested in the way classactions and other large-scale litigation can promote thepublic interest, in law school he joined the Stanford Journalfor Complex Litigation and helped found the StanfordPlaintiffs’ Lawyers Association. He is also co-president ofthe American Constitution Society, a volunteer with theHousing Pro Bono, and a programming co-chair for theShaking the Foundations West Coast Progressive LawyeringConference. This summer he worked at the San Franciscooffice of Sanford Heisler, a plaintiffs’ firm specializing inemployment law, where he worked on litigation targetinggender, race, and age discrimination in the workplace. Helooks forward to joining the Community Law Clinic thisspring.Julie GoldrosenJulie is from Marin County, California,and graduated from UCLA in 2010 with adegree in Political Science. After college,she moved to Washington, D.C.—eagerfor real seasons and nerdy political life.She worked for Senator Dianne Feinsteinfor three years, and then spent two years at a boutiquelobbying and public relations firm. In 2015, she returnedto her beloved Bay Area to start a new chapter at SLS. As a2L, she will be co-President of the Women of Stanford Law,Policy Director for the International Refugee AssistanceProject, and a board member for the Criminal LawSociety. She spent her 1L summer at the Federal PublicDefender’s Office in San Francisco, and is looking forwardto participating in the Criminal Defense Clinic this spring.In her free time, she enjoys rooting for the Warriors andGiants, doing yoga, and taking photos.Elliot HigginsElliot grew up on a farm outside ofOttumwa, Iowa. He graduated from theUniversity of Iowa in 2012 with a degreein Political Science and Anthropology. Incollege, he served for four years in studentgovernment, including terms as CityCouncil Liaison and President. After graduation, Elliotserved as an AmeriCorps member with Iowa Legal Aidwhere he conducted outreach to low-income Iowans andadministered a pro se divorce clinic in Johnson County. Hethen worked briefly as a paralegal at a private firm beforeserving in the Peace Corps in Indonesia as an Englishteacher. At Stanford, Elliot is a Member Editor of theStanford Law Review, a Co-President of the InternationalLaw Society, and an Associate Editor of the Stanford Lawand Policy Review Journal. He spent this summer workingfor the Manhattan DA in the Violent Criminal EnterprisesUnit. Outside of law school, he enjoys racket sports,travelling, and bean bags.Carly HiteCarly is from Buffalo, NY and graduatedfrom Pomona College in 2012 with a doublemajor in Economics and German Studies.Between college and law school, she spentone year teaching English as a FulbrightTeaching Assistant in Cologne, Germanyand two years teaching high school math at Democracy Prepschools in Harlem. At Stanford, Carly is Co-President ofthe Youth & Education Advocates, Academic Coordinatorof Project ReMADE Pro Bono, Outreach Director for theStanford Criminal Law Society, Academic Chair of theStanford American Constitution Society, an AssociateEditor for Stanford Law & Policy Review, and a member ofthe Race and Criminal Justice Reading Group. She spenther 1L summer at the Criminal Division of US Attorney’sOffice for the Western District of New York in Buffalo. Carlylooks forward to participating in the Youth and EducationLaw Clinic this spring and to spending her 2L summer at apublic interest organization advocating for the educationrights of children with special needs.

2L Public Interest Mentors2015 - 2016Leah HubingerLeah Hubinger grew up in Michigan.Born in Bay City, affectionately known asMadonna’s “stinky little town,” she spenther secondary school years in nearbyMidland. As an economics and mathundergraduate at University of Michigan,Leah studied games. Still not much of a card shark, sheapplied her love of game theory and statistics to studyingcartels and public program design. After graduation,Leah volunteered through FEMA and Americorps tohelp communities in New York and New Jersey stillrecovering from Hurricane Sandy. At Stanford, she is aboard member for the Criminal Law Society and Law andSociety organizations and Community Service Chair for thenew Youth and Education Advocates. She especially enjoysinteracting with students at Hillcrest Youth Center throughStanford’s Street Law program.Tiffany LieuTiffany was born in raised in Seattle, WA,and graduated from Duke Universityin 2015 where she studied History. Thesummer before law school she workedwith the Seattle chapter of RestaurantOpportunities Center-United to advocatefor workers’ rights in the restaurant industry. She alsoworked with the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project—anonprofit that provides direct services to low-incomeimmigrants. At Stanford, Tiffany is a Member Editor of theStanford Law Review and the Technical Managing Editor ofthe Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. Shealso volunteers with the International Refugee AssistanceProject pro bono and is the Co-Mentorship Chair forWomen of Stanford Law, and the treasurer of the Womenof Color Collective. Tiffany looks forward to joining theImmigrants’ Rights clinic in the spring. She enjoys rockclimbing and eating excellent food.Dennis MartinDennis is from Cleveland, Ohio. Hegraduated from Columbia in 2010 andspent the next four years as an infantryofficer in the Marines. At Stanford, he isa member of the Stanford Law VeteransOrganization and a member editor forthe Stanford Law Review; he’ll join the Supreme CourtLitigation Clinic in the spring. Dennis is also workingtowards a joint degree with a masters in computer science.He spent his 1L summer taking computer science classesand working as a research assistant. After graduating, hehopes to work on surveillance and cybercrime litigationfor the federal government. In his free time, he enjoysclimbing, playing board games, and reading science fiction.Rebecca MearsRebecca grew up in Modesto, California.She graduated from Brown Universityin 2015 with a degree Political Scienceas well as Public Policy. She spent herundergraduate summers interning withthe Rhode Island State Legislature andthe White House Domestic Policy Council. Rebecca camestraight from undergrad to Stanford, where she is currentlya Managing Editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Reviewand Co-President of the SLS Democrats. Rebecca spent thefirst half of her 1L summer working for the U.S. Attorney’sOffice in Washington D.C. with the Misdemeanors Sectionand the second half of her summer with the CaliforniaAttorney General’s Executive Office in San Franciscofocusing on policy. She is looking forward to participatingin the International Human Rights and Conflict ResolutionClinic this winter and getting to know Stanford’s incomingpublic interest students.Kelsey MerrickKelsey grew up in Ocean City, Marylandand graduated from the University ofMaryland in 2010, where she majored ineconomics and government and politics.Before law school, she spent five yearsin Washington, DC; she first worked as aresearcher for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities,a think tank that advocates for budget policies that benefitlow-income families. She then worked for the White Houseat the National Economic Council, where she helpeddevelop policies related to taxes, higher education, andnutrition. At Stanford, Kelsey is a Member Editor of theStanford Law Review, Lead Articles Editor of the StanfordLaw & Policy Review, Advocacy Co-Chair of the AmericanConstitution Society, Co-Leader for the Social SecurityDisability Project and Tax Pro Bonos, programming boardmember for our 2016 Shaking the Foundations conference,and very excited to be part of the Community Law Clinicthis Winter. She spent her 1L summer as a law clerk forthe U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Jose, CA, working for theCivil Division. Kelsey hopes to return to policy work, and isinterested in administrative law, tax law, and housing law.She enjoys running in the low-humidity of California, andkaraoke.Haley MillnerHaley grew up in St. Louis, Missouri andgraduated from Duke University in 2014,where she studied English and Spanish.Before law school, she worked at a medical

2L Public Interest Mentors2015 - 2016clinic for immigrants and as a part-time Spanish interpreter.She has a passion for direct services and plans to launchinto a career in immigration law upon graduating from SLS.At Stanford, she is a member of the Immigration Pro Bono,the Volunteer Attorney Project Pro Bono, the ReadingGroup on Race and Criminal Justice, and the Criminal LawSociety. She also serves as Public Interest Liaison for SLA.She spent her first summer at Legal Advocates for Childrenand Youth in San Jose, working primarily with immigrantchildren seeking legal status.Nina MonfredoNina Monfredo is from Seal Harbor,Maine. She graduated from ColumbiaUniversity with a degree in History in2011. After college, Nina taught 9thgrade World History at a charter schoolin Memphis through Teach for America,and was a Leadership for Educational Equity Fellow andImpartial Hearing Representative at the NYC Departmentof Education. At Stanford, Nina is Curriculum Co-Chair ofStreetlaw, Academic Co-Chair of If/When/How, a MemberEditor of the Stanford Law Review, and Keynote Speakerand Finance Co-Chair of Shaking the Foundations. Nina isexcited to spend her Winter Quarter participating in theYouth and Education Law Clinic. She spent her 1L summerat the Center for Reproductive Rights in NYC. Nina alsoplays viola.Katherine MoyKatherine grew up outside St. Louis,Missouri, and attended GeorgetownUniversity, where she majored inInternational Politics. During college,she worked as a barista and manager ata student-run campus coffee shop andspent a semester abroad in Amman, Jordan. Before lawschool, she worked for three years as an intelligence analyst,focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. At Stanford,Katherine is Co-President of Women of Stanford Law, aMember Editor of Stanford Law Review, and part of theplanning team for Shaking the Foundations. She spent her1L summer working on criminal appeals at the CaliforniaAttorney General’s Office in San Francisco, and is lookingforward to participating in the Supreme Court LitigationClinic this fall.Miles MullerMiles grew up splashing around in the eastcoast waves of Virginia Beach, Virginia,where he developed a deep appreciationfor the ocean and a mastery of smallwave “surfing”. He graduated from DukeUniversity in 2015 with a degree inEnvironmental Science and Policy. His love of the ocean ledhim to immerse himself in ocean and coastal policy issuesduring undergrad and while at Stanford. He is the Presidentof the Environmental Law Society, the Environmental LawPro Bono, Lead Article Editor and Symposium Co-Chair ofthe Environmental Law Journal, Chair of the Robotics LawAssociation, and Founder & Gnar Tsar of SLSurf. Duringhis 1L summer, Miles helped to protect California’s coastalheritage and resources while working for the CaliforniaCoastal Commission in its Statewide EnforcementDivision. He is a joint JD/MS student in Environmentand Resources, focusing on coastal law as well as energytechnology and policy, and plans to pursue a career inenvironmental advocacy after law school. When he’s notengulfed in reading at the Stanford library, you can find himat the beach diligently “studying” coastal dynamics.Ann NiehausAnn is from Rye, NY and graduatedfrom Princeton University in 2012 with adegree in public policy and a certificate inAfrican American studies. After collegeshe spent a year in Beijing as a Princetonin Asia Teaching Fellow and two years inSan Francisco as a paralegal at Althsuler Berzon. Ann is atransfer from Boalt where she volunteered at the East BayCommunity Law Center’s Tenants’ Rights Workshop andthe Interfaith Restorative Justice Roundtable at San QuentinState Prison. Ann spent her 1L summer in the felony unitof the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and is lookingforward to joining the criminal justice community at SLS.Juan Pablo Perez-SangiminoJ.P. grew up in Rockville, Maryland andgraduated from Boston College in 2012,competing on the swim team and majoringin Political Science. He then joined Teachfor America and taught juniors and seniorsU.S. History and AP Government in SouthTexas. In the fall of 2014, he interned with Human RightsFirst’s anti-human trafficking division before travelingthrough South America for about six months. During his1L summer, he was in Phnom Penh, Cambodia creating acoalition to annotate the Cambodian constitution to makeit more accessible to citizens and legal practitioners. Duringhis 2L year, J.P. is looking forward to being a memberof the Afghanistan Legal Education Project, StanfordLaw Association class representative, and his work in theInternational Human Rights clinic.Christen PhilipsChristen grew up in New Mexico, andwent to the University of SouthernCalifornia, where she majored in

2L Public Interest Mentors2015 - 2016Psychology, focusing on adolescents who join gangs,and she also worked for a research lab in the law school,studying children’s testimony. She graduated in 2013, andjoined Teach for America in Phoenix, where she taught7th and 8th grade. At SLS, Christen is a Co-President ofStreetLaw, a board member of both the Latino Law StudentsAssociation and Youth and Education Advocates, and wasin the Preventing Mass Atrocities Policy Lab. She spenther 1L summer in Brussels, working at the InternationalJuvenile Justice Observatory, where she researched the useof juvenile solitary confinement in North America. Sheis looking forward to participating in the InternationalHuman Rights Clinic in the Spring.Adrienne PonAdrienne is from Littleton, Colorado andgraduated from Stanford in 2012 with adegree in Public Policy. After college, sheworked on the Obama campaign and thenlived in DC working on various educationinitiatives, mostly with community colleges.At SLS, Adrienne is a research assistant, is involved in theAsian Pacific Islander Law Students Association, and servedon the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.She spent her 1L summer at the Impact Fund, a publicinterest law nonprofit that focuses on class action impactlitigation for social justice. Adrienne is excited to join theSupreme Court Litigation Clinic this fall. In her free time,she enjoys spending time with her boyfriend in SF, runningthe Dish, cooking, and caring after her bonsais.Tara RangchiTara is from El Dorado Hills, California,and graduated from UCLA in GlobalStudies/ Political Science in 2013. Incollege, Tara studied abroad in Shanghai,China, and was captain of the UCLA Ski &Snowboard T

rights litigation long-term. Outside of school, Nicole enjoys running, hiking, and otherwise taking advantage of suburbia. Javier Alvarez-Oviedo Javier was born and raised in New York ("the City"). He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2013 as a History and Sociology Major. For two years after graduation Javier worked as a paralegal