Kaya Van Dyke, 2023 Inner City Law Center Fellow – Copy
Kaya Van Dyke 2023 Inner City Law Center Fellow Kaya Van Dyke is a rising 2L at UCLA School of Law. She graduated cum laude from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
The WLALA Foundation/ICLC Fellow will spend 10 weeks working full-time at the Inner City Law Center during the summer of 2023. The Fellow will work with ICLC’s Homeless Veterans Project and spend their summer focusing on issues affecting women veterans, including clients who have been victims of military sexual trauma.
The fellow will receive a stipend of up to $6,000 from the WLALA Foundation. The Fellow will:
Kaya Van Dyke 2023 Inner City Law Center Fellow Kaya Van Dyke is a rising 2L at UCLA School of Law. She graduated cum laude from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Karen Herrera 2022 Southwestern Social Justice Fellow Karen is a rising 2L at Southwestern Law School. She grew up in the Koreatown neighborhood of Los Angeles. She graduated from UC
Esmeralda Verdin 2022 Public Interest Grant Recipient Esmeralda Verdin grew up in Arkansas. In 2020, she graduated summa cum laude from the University of Arkansas with a B.A. in Political
Karla Luviano 2022 Inner City Law Center Fellow Karla Luviano is a rising 2L at Southwestern Law School. Prior to law school, Karla attended UCLA and received her BA in
Leilani Stacy 2021 Inner City Law Center Fellow Leilani Stacy is an Honors and Public Interest Scholar at the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law. She graduated with
Galyn Sumida-Ross 2021 Inner City Law Center Fellow Galyn Sumida-Ross is a rising 2L in the David J. Epstein Public Interest Program at UCLA School of Law. She graduated with
Fran Kandel Public Interest Fellowship Projects
The Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (WLALA) Fran Kandel Public Interest Fellowship enables law students to work with an organization or individually to develop and implement a project in the field of public interest law in the spirit of Fran Kandel. The WLALA Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization created to increase the utility of the law as an instrument of social justice. Since 1985, the WLALA Foundation has awarded over 30 law student grants totaling over $137,000.
The WLALA Kandel Fellowship is designed to fund social justice-oriented projects with a tangible outcome. Strong preference is given to applicants who have the support of a sponsoring organization and who have arranged for an organization or suitable individual to supervise their project. Each Kandel Fellow may receive up to $6,000. This amount is intended to cover project expenses and provide a stipend.
The purpose of the WLALA Kandel Fellowship is to:
Examples of Past Projects
WLALA awarded three Kandel Fellowships in 2022. Recent past recipients have created brochures, sample letters for clients, toolkits, and training manuals in areas such as immigration rights, access to healthcare, lactation accommodations, and domestic violence prevention. Past Fellows have externed with the ACLU, National Health Law Program, the LA Center for Law and Justice, Central American Resource Center and Legal Aid Foundation, among many others. You can view past projects below.
Fran Kandel Public Interest Fellowship Fellows
Drew Wilds 2022 Public Interest Grant Recipient Drew Wilds was raised in Oak Park, California and graduated from the College of Saint Benedict with a degree in political science and
Brittany Chung 2022 Public Interest Grant Recipient Brittany (she/her) is a rising second year at UCLA School of Law, where she is a member of the David J. Epstein Program
Ali Rubinfeld 2022 Public Interest Grant Recipient Ali Rubinfeld is a rising 2L and Public Interest Scholar at Loyola Law School. As a 2022 WLALA Fran Kandel Fellow, she worked
Danielle Wilkins 2021 Public Interest Grant Recipient Danielle was born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduated from Spelman College with a degree in economics and a minor in management.
Arabi Hassan 2021 Public Interest Grant Recipient Ms. Hassan is entering her second year at Harvard Law School this fall. As a first-generation immigrant born and raised in Bangladesh, she
Selene Estrada-Villela 2021 Public Interest Grant Recipient Selene Estrada-Villela is entering her third year at Loyola Law School. In 2015, Selene graduated from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
WLALA Foundation Charitable Fund The Foundation’s annual giving campaign – the WLALA Foundation Charitable Fund – runs every year from mid-September to the end of January. The Charitable Fund increases WLALA’s
ICLA/WLALA Fellowship Recipients Announced March 2021 The Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles (WLALA) Foundation’s and Inner City Law Center’s (ICLC) fellowship is a 10 week program awarded yearly for
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