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Equal Justice Works Fellows in California
| NAME | HOST ORGANIZATION | CITY |
| Jessa Barnard | Law Foundation of Silicon Valley | San Jose |
| Andrew Berk | Housing Rights Center | Los Angeles |
| Courtney Bolin Nash | Legal Aid Society of San Diego, Inc. | San Diego |
| Kathryn Brown | Public Counsel | Los Angeles |
| Alana Chazan | Bay Area Legal Aid | Oakland |
| Abigail Coursolle | Western Center on Law and Poverty | Los Angeles |
| Nina Farnia | The Impact Fund | Berkeley |
| Parisa Fatehi | Public Advocates, Inc. | San Francisco |
| Linnea Forsythe | Bay Area Legal Aid | Oakland |
| Rachael Gardiner | Legal Services for Children | San Francisco |
| Dennis Hsieh | Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. | Pacoima |
| Talia Inlender | Public Counsel | Los Angeles |
| Raegan Joern | The Hawkins Center of Law and Services for People with Disabilities | Richmond |
| Danny Kirchoff | Transgender Law Center | San Francisco |
| Sara Pezeshkpour Kunkel | Housing Rights Center | Los Angeles |
| Kristin Link | Legal Services Program Of Northern California | Woodland |
| Cassandra Lopez | Centro Legal de la Raza | Oakland |
| Jennifer Luczkowiak | Law Foundation of Silicon Valley | San Jose |
| Vivek Mittal | National Immigration Law Center | Los Angeles |
| Adetunji Olude | Housing and Economic Rights Advocates | Oakland |
| Maria Palomares | Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County | Glendale |
| Erica Pun | Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County | San Mateo |
| Theodore Roethke | Asian Law Caucus | San Francisco |
| Jennifer Stark | ACLU of Southern California | Los Angeles |
| Hayley Upshaw | Legal Services for Children | San Francisco |
Contact
Shirley Hochhausen
1735 Telegraph Avenue
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 238-9384
shochhausen@equaljusticeworks.org
West Coast News
Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person's online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. People may be effectively ``outing'' themselves just by the virtual company they keep. ``Even if you don't affirmatively post revealing information, simply publishing your friends' list may reveal sensitive information about you, or it may lead people to make assumptions about you that are incorrect,'' said Kevin Bankston, [Equal Justice Works Alumnus] senior staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit digital rights organization in San Francisco. ``Certainly if most or many of your friends are of a particular religious or political or sexual category, others may conclude you are part of the same category - even if you haven't said so yourself.''








