Betsy Havens
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1L Miami Scholar Betsy Havens will be interning here in Miami during the summer 2009 with Ms. Miriam Harmatz, a poverty health lawyer at Florida Legal Services, an organization that provides civil legal assistance to underserved Floridians. With her Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of North Carolina and having worked with the local Medicaid program before beginning law school, she is excited to help tackle some of the more problematic Medicaid policies and practices by assisting Ms. Harmatz with preparing class actions and drafting legislation to address some of the recent and anticipated changes to Florida Medicaid.

Over the course of the summer of 2009, Betsy looks forward to working to organize Medicaid recipients and leaders from health clinics receiving Medicaid funding or enrolled in the Medicaid managed care programs in order to help to identify potential areas of litigation and community need. Betsy’s advice to 1Ls seeking internships: Expand your horizons! Try to find an internship that is really what you are interested in but one that also provides an opportunity for you to grow and learn new skills.