Equal Justice Works Fellows in California
| NAME | HOST ORGANIZATION | CITY |
| Sharon Balmer | Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles | Los Angeles |
| Emily Berger | Alliance for Children's Rights | Los Angeles |
| Ingrid Brostrom | Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment | San Francisco |
| Remy De La Peza | Public Counsel Law Center | Los Angeles |
| Kriste Draper | Children's Advocacy Institute of the University of San Diego's School of Law |
San Diego |
| Greta Hansen | ACLU of Northern California | San Francisco |
| Crisanne Hazen | Legal Advocates for Children and Youth | San Jose |
| Rachel Kleinberg | Public Counsel Law Center | Los Angeles |
| Alexis McLeod | Public Law Center | Santa Ana |
| Gregory Pleasants | Mental Health Advocacy Services, Inc. | Los Angeles |
| Fiza Quraishi | National Center for Youth Law | Oakland |
| Claire Ramsey | Child Care Law Center | San Francisco |
| Cathy Sakimura | National Center for Lesbian Rights | San Francisco |
| Samantha Sepehr | Elder Law Clinic | Pleasant Hill |
| Summer Stech | Legal Aid Society of San Diego | San Diego |
| Anne Tamar-Mattis | Institute for Intersex Children and the Law | Berkeley |
| Samuel Tepperman-Gelfant | Public Advocates, Inc. | San Francisco |
| Meliah Thomas Schultzman | National Housing Law Project | Oakland |
| Jamie Xiong | Central California Legal Services | Fresno |
| Noah Zinner | Bay Area Legal Aid, Contra Costa Regional Office | Richmond |
Contact
Diane Chin
(510) 207-8102
dchin@equaljusticeworks.org
West Coast Events
Training & Information Session: College Cost Reduction & Access Act
Tuesday, August 26
Golden Gate University School of Law
536 Madison St., San Francisco
Statewide Training: California Practice & Advocacy Skills
November 12 - 14
More information to follow. For Fellows only.
To post a West Coast event, please contact info@equaljusticeworks.org.
West Coast News
Deal is struck to overhaul wiretap law
By Eric Lichtblau, The New York Times – June 20
After months of wrangling, Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress struck a deal on Thursday to overhaul the rules on the government's wiretapping powers and provide what amounts to legal immunity to the phone companies that took part in President Bush's program of eavesdropping without warrants after the Sept. 11 attacks. The deal, expanding the government's powers to spy on terrorism suspects in some major respects, would strengthen the ability of intelligence officials to eavesdrop on foreign targets. ''No matter how they spin it, this is still immunity,'' said Kevin Bankston, a senior lawyer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation a pro-privacy group that is a plaintiff suing over the wiretapping program. ''It's not compromise; it's pure theater.'' Kevin Bankston is a former Equal Justice Works Fellow.