Malissa Barnwell-Scott
Student Programs Advisor, Office of Public Service
University of Southern California Law School
Los Angeles, CA

Laurie Barron
Director, Feinstein Institute for Legal Service
Roger Williams University School of Law
Bristol, RI

Annie Goldman
Career Counselor
Tulane University School of Law
New Orleans, LA

Taylor Healy
Class of 2010
Villanova University School of Law
Bryn Mawr, PA

Aliza Kaplan
Instructor of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Brooklyn, NY

Marni B. Lennon
Assistant Dean of Students
University of Miami School of Law
Miami, FL

Tim McNutt
Class of 2010
California Western School of Law
San Diego, CA

Caroline Richardson
Class of 2009
Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN

Leslie Ross
Class of 2009
Phoenix School of Law
Phoenix, AZ

Ezra Rosser
Assistant Professor
American University, Washington College of Law
Washington, DC

Cybele Smith
Director of Public Service & Public Interest Programs
The Ohio State University Mortiz College of Law
Columbus, OH

Karthik Subramanian
Class of 2011
University of Alabama School of Law
Tuscaloosa, AL

Chloe Walker
Class of 2010
University of Houston Law Center
Houston, TX

Daniel Zeno
Class of 2009
University of Iowa College of Law
Iowa City, IA

Malissa Barnwell-Scott

Malissa Barnwell-Scott is the Student Programs Advisor in the Office of Public Service at USC Gould School of Law. She provides support and counseling to student leaders and student organizations that have or want to develop pro bono and community service projects. She coordinates office sponsored programs and projects including the 100-hour Service Pledge Competition and annual orientation service project for incoming students. Whenever given the opportunity, Malissa talks to students about the importance and value of developing a strong service ethic and experiential learning while in law school. She has been a part of the law school community for over 9 years working in Career Services, Student Affairs and Public Service. She graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a B.F.A in Photography and earned her M.A. in Communication Management at USC’s Annenberg School of Communication.

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Laurie Barron

Laurie Barron is the Executive Director of the Feinstein Institute for Legal Service at Roger Williams University School of Law. Her previous work includes representing children at the Juvenile Rights Division of the Legal Aid Society in New York City; working as a public defender and team leader at the Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem; and clinical teaching in an interdisciplinary Prisoners and Families Clinic at Columbia Law School, in a School-Based Legal Services Clinic at Rutgers-Camden School of Law, and in a Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project at Boston College Law School. She received a B.A. from Yale University, a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and an M.S.W. from New York University School of Social Work. Laurie has been at the Feinstein Institute since 2001. She directs the Institute and its Externship Program and teaches the co-requisite seminar on Public Interest Law in addition to other public interest courses.

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Annie Goldman

Annie Goldman is a Career Counselor at Tulane University Law School. She specializes in public interest, government and environmental law opportunities. At Tulane, Annie established the Public Interest Executive Committee - a group comprised of leaders from all student organizations substantially committed to public service. The group meets bi-weekly to collaborate on projects and share ideas and information related to public interest initiatives. Prior to her arrival at Tulane, Annie served as Staff Attorney and then Supervising Attorney for Legal Services of South Central Michigan, where she focused on family and housing law. While in law school, Annie held the position of student supervisor for a pilot project designed to train law students to assist pro per litigants in obtaining or defending against Personal Protection Orders. Annie received her B.A. from Barnard College and her J.D. from UC Hastings College of the Law.

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Taylor Healy

Taylor Healy is a 2L Public Interest Scholar at the Villanova University School of Law in Villanova, Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Villanova Law Review and is the Solicitation Coordinator for the law school’s Public Interest Fellowship Program (PIFP). She was the recipient of a 2008 PIFP Summer Fellowship and spent this past summer working as a law clerk in the Guardian ad Litem Program at the Children’s Law Center in Washington, DC. Prior to attending law school, Taylor worked in Washington, DC on post-Hurricane Katrina legal services issues at the Legal Services Corporation. She was the recipient of a 2004 Fulbright Scholarship and spent her year abroad in both Osnabrück and Berlin, Germany where she examined the effects of the 2004 European Union expansion on German migration and immigration policy. Taylor received her B.A. in English and German from Boston College in 2004.

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Aliza Kaplan

Aliza Kaplan is a member of the Brooklyn Law School (BLS) faculty where she teaches writing and research. She is involved with BLS's Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Program and represents asylum seekers through BLS's Safe Harbor Project. She was previously the Deputy Director of the Innocence Project, an organization which represents prisoners in their efforts to obtain DNA testing to prove their innocence, and she co-founded the New England Innocence Project. She was formerly an associate at Testa, Hurwitz and Thibeault in Boston and served as a Law Clerk to Judge Joseph E. Irenas of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. She is a graduate of Northeastern University School of Law. Prior to law school, Aliza was a fundraiser and community organizer for NOW LDEF and NYPIRG. Kaplan is also a documentary film producer; My Country, My Country, a film she co-produced, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2007.

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Marni B. Lennon

Marni Lennon is the Assistant Dean for Public Interest and Pro Bono at the University of Miami School of Law. She is also the Founder and Director of the HOPE Public Interest Resource Center, which features over 25 outreach and advocacy projects across South Florida. Dean Lennon has worked at the University of Miami School of Law for 13 years, where she spent nine years as an Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Disability Services. She has been involved in the creation of the Public Interest Loan Reduction Program and the Public Interest Scholarship Program and she oversees the HOPE Fellows Program, which places students worldwide in public interest organizations. In addition, she directs the Miami Scholars Program for students with a commitment to public interest. Marni is the advisor to the Public Interest Leadership Board and works closely with student organizations engaged in community outreach and advocacy. She teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution and Mediation at the University of Miami School of Law and serves as a mediator in the criminal courts. Marni also serves on the executive committee of the AALS Pro Bono Section. She holds a B.A. from the University of Southern California and a J.D. and M.S.Ed from the University of Miami.

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Tim McNutt

Tim McNutt is a student at California Western School of Law. He first became interested in law during an undergraduate exchange program at the University of Cape Town South Africa in the spring of 2004. He was inspired by the profound role law had on the development of post-apartheid South Africa and the formation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Tim returned to the George Washington University (GWU) and continued his service as an advisory committee member for the Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Education. He served as the student representative of the committee aimed at curbing substance abuse on the George Washington campus. After graduating from GWU in 2005, Tim worked at the St. Louis City Public Defender’s office serving as the Drug Court Representative. He represented over 200 indigent clients in the Adult Felony Drug Court and advocated for the non-violent offenders’ placement in treatment facilities in lieu of incarceration. As a 1L Tim interned with the National Consumers League, where he researched and wrote a draft for the American Bar Association on the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005. The article is titled, “The Unintended Consequences of the Class Action Fairness Act” and is scheduled to be published in the August 2009 edition of Litigation Magazine. Tim received his B.A. in Sociology from GWU in 2005.

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Caroline Richardson

Caroline Richardson is a 3L at Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis where she is President of a campus public interest student organization. She is concentrating her studies in the areas of housing, discrimination and civil rights advocacy. Caroline also serves as the law school’s student representative for iVote, an on-campus initiative through the IUPUI School of Political Science that will encourage political engagement and facilitate political participation in the 2008 election. Prior to beginning law school, she served as an Americorps*VISTA volunteer with Horizon House, a homeless day shelter in Indianapolis, where she worked on resource development projects including private and government grant applications and event planning. Following her service, Caroline was hired by Horizon House to continue her work in resource development. She spent her first summer in law school interning with the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana. She is currently a clerk with the Supreme Court of Indiana Disciplinary Commission. Caroline received her B.A. in English from Furman University in 2003.

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Leslie Ross

Leslie Ross is in her final year at Phoenix School of Law in Phoenix, Arizona. At Phoenix School of Law, Leslie has served as the President and Founder of the Public Interest Law Project, an evening delegate on the Student Bar Association, a student liaison for the State Bar of Arizona Young Lawyers Division, a member of the Phoenix School of Law Pro Bono Committee, and a participant in the Phoenix School of Law Mediation Clinic. While attending law school, Leslie works full-time as the Public Legal Information Manager at the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education. In this role, Leslie serves on the State Bar of Arizona Legal Services Committee, the Consumer Information and Education Task Force, and the Statewide Elder Abuse Coalition. Additionally, Leslie works to promote access to justice for all Arizonans by coordinating statewide legal services efforts.

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Ezra Rosser

Ezra Rosser, an assistant professor at American University Washington College of Law, focuses his research on poverty and on tribal economic development and runs the popular Poverty Prof Blog. Ezra teaches poverty law, Indian law, and property. Previously, he served as a 1665 Fellow at Harvard University, a visiting scholar at Yale Law School, and a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law. While in law school, he clerked at the DNA-People’s Legal Services, at the Office of Native American Programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and at the Native American Rights Fund. Ezra has an MPhil from the University of Cambridge (UK) in Land Economics (2004), a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School (2003), and a B.A. in Economics and English from Yale University (2000).

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Daniel Zeno

Daniel Zeno is a 3L at The University of Iowa College of Law. He is involved in various student organizations, including the Equal Justice Foundation, Black Law Students Association, Iowa Campaign for Human Rights and The University of Iowa Antiwar Committee. Daniel is also an editor for The Journal of Gender, Race and Justice. This past summer, Daniel worked at the Advancement Project, a policy, communications and legal action group committed to racial justice in Washington, D.C. The previous summer, he worked at the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project in Santa Cruz, CA. Prior to attending law school, Daniel worked at the U.S. Government Accountability Office in Atlanta, GA evaluating federal programs. Daniel received his A.B. from Wabash College in 2002 and his M.P.A. from Indiana University Bloomington in 2004.

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