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Alumni & Community Spotlights
Khari Taustin is working in New York City this summer with National Employment Law Project (NELP). NELP partners with national, state and local allies, to promote policies and programs that create good jobs, strengthen upward mobility in the workforce, enforce worker rights, and help unemployed workers regain their economic stability through improved benefits and legal services.
As a legal intern, she conducts legal research, work on policy guides for workers, advocates, and practitioners, and updates and revises databases of research on unemployment insurance, workers’ compensation, and wage and hour laws.
In addition to providing legal and policy analysis and developing innovative strategies that improve jobs and working conditions to bolster economic security, NELP documents key trends in the economy and publishes specific and effective solutions to some of the biggest issues. In just the short time that I have been here I have been able to see the direct links in the research I do for the attorneys as contributing to those initiatives. “I feel like this office has the advantage of being able to keep an eye on the big picture and provide legal advice and techical assistance to help practitioners craft viable policies in light of legal restrictions on their specific cases.” But on a daily basis we are doing the nation-wide research that needs to be done to eventually affect those restrictions.
Khari’s internship is funded by the Peggy Browning Fund which is a nonprofit corporation established in memory of Margaret A. Browning, a prominent labor attorney and member of the National Labor Relations Board.
Additional Alumni Spotlights
Mindy Reinstein, JD ’08 headed to Washington DC after graduation, in the hopes of landing her dream job of working on public policy.
Jason Wade, JD ’08, traveled to Louisiana after graduation to pursue an opportunity with the City of New Orleans Office of Recovery and Development.
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Joy Purcell, JD ’08, is a Staff Attorney in the Health Access Project (HAP) at the Children's Law Center
Christina Liu, JD '07 - HOPE Alumni Fellow
Liz Marquardt is the Chief Financial Officer of Ferrell Law. She has more than 12 years of tax and corporate finance experience throughout the Americas.
Michael Futterman JD ‘04 Continues Service to Children Through Big Brothers-Big Sisters of New York City.
Judge Beth Bloom, JD '88 - “It’s Your Life” Financial Literacy Project
Alumna Claire Subran, JD '99, Speaks to the HOPE Public Interest Leadership Board
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Community Spotlights
Faculty spotlight on Professor JoNel Newman
UM Law School Professor Mario L. Barnes Receives AALS Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Award
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Law Library Staff Member Sue Ann Campbell Goes Above and Beyond
