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Senior HOPE Fellows serve as ambassadors for the HOPE Public Interest Resource Center during the academic year. They play a key role in implementing HOPE programming, designing new opportunities for students, and representing HOPE and UM Law in the community. They assist with the supervision of project leaders and serve as advisors on the Public Interest Leadership Board. The Public Interest Resource Center selects up to three law students each year for the program. Senior fellows receive a stipend for their work and are selected based on a demonstrated commitment to furthering pro bono and public interest initiatives at the University of Miami School of Law.

Erin Boatman

Erin Boatman, Miami Scholar '11, has constantly been involved in projects that bring her closer to the community she serves. As part of the outreach group Sojourners for Peace, she was able to travel to an immigrant detention center in New Jersey and interact with detainees. Also, she worked in the Housing and Domestic Violence Departments at Harlem Legal Services, managing case-intake and attending particularly to Spanish speaking clients. Erin’s experience also includes work with the International Center for Transitional Justice where she coordinated the director’s visits to countries with volatile political and human rights climates. With the Center of Political Analysis and Economic Research, Erin traveled to indigenous villages in Mexico to research the political and economic structures which govern autonomous communities.  Additionally, she worked at the School for International Training as an advisor to college students, facilitating discourse between activists and scholars in order to help with the documentation of human rights abuses.

 

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Evian White

 

During the summer of 2008, as a HOPE Fellow, Evian worked with Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc to mitigate the widespread problems brought about by mortgage foreclosure scams and predatory lending. Her linguistic talents in Spanish and Portuguese allowed her to communicate and learn from the population she aimed to serve.

 

After completing her second-year at UM Law, Senior HOPE Fellow Evian White will work during the summer of 2009 at the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC) as a Florida Bar Foundation Fellow. Evian is excited to have the opportunity to work with FIAC either on a project involving undocumented women in detention facing deportation when they have citizen children here in the U.S. "I am thrilled to continue working in the public interest sector," says Evian," and I can't wait to bring what I've learned and experienced back to the UM campus." Evian will continue her leadership as a Senior HOPE Fellow in the 2009-2010 academic year.

 

“My passion for public interest spans a whole spectrum of opportunities -
the hardest part is narrowing down the list of issues on which to focus.”