Today the Ford Foundation announced 25 Stanford Law School students selected to participate in the foundation’s new Law School Public Interest Fellowship Program. The Stanford Law School students will work with Ford grantee organizations around the world during the summer of 2013 to improve the lives of others through legal analysis, litigation and public policy advocacy.
The Ford Foundation Law School Public Interest Fellowship Program was first announced in September 2012. Stanford Law School was chosen as one of four law schools to share a $1.7 million grant designed to support ten-week summer student fellowships focused on international and domestic public interest practice. The fellowships are open to first-and second-year law students. Those selected each receive $15,000 over the summer, giving them the opportunity to have substantive and transformative experiences as interns in the field of public interest law.
The John and Terry Levin Center for Public Service and Public Interest Law administers the Ford fellowship program at Stanford.
The following is a list of the Stanford Law School students who were selected for the fellowship and the grantee organizations where they will intern this summer:
| Action Canada for Population and Development | Geneva, Switzerland | Rebecca Vogel |
| Alliance for a Better Community | Los Angeles, California | Cesar De La Vega |
| Asian Law Caucus | San Francisco, CA | Nisha Kashyap |
| Beijing Qianqian Law Firm | Beijing, China | Nicole Marquez |
| Brennan Center for Justice | New York, NY | Kevin Jason |
| Center for American Progress | Washington, D.C. | Abhay Aneja |
| Center for Reproductive Rights | New York, NY | Lauren Finkelstein |
| Constitution Project | Washington, D.C. | Roberto De Luca |
| Environmental Defense Fund | New York, NY | Amanda Prasuhn |
| Human Rights First | New York, NY | Neel Lalchandani |
| Indian Law Resource Center | Washington, D.C. | Ashlee Pinto |
| International Commission of Jurists | Geneva, Switzerland | Mark Middaugh |
| Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund | Los Angeles, California | Mikael Rojas |
| NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund | New York, NY | Jennifer Williams |
| National Employment Law Project | Washington, D.C. | Briane Cornish |
| National Employment Law Project | Oakland, CA | Camden Vilkin |
| National Gay and Lesbian Task Force | Washington, D.C. | Salvatore Bonaccorso |
| National Health Law Program | Los Angeles, California | Byung-Kwan Park |
| National Immigration Law Center | Washington, D.C. | Stacy Villalobos |
| National Immigration Law Center | Los Angeles, California | Atenas Burrola |
| Native American Rights Fund | Boulder, Colorado | Steven Seber |
| Public Citizen Foundation | Washington, D.C. | Sophia Rios |
| The Sentencing Project | Washington, D.C. | Christopher Lewis |
| Vera Institute of Justice | Washington, D.C. | Alyssa Weis |
| Women’s Link Worldwide | Madrid, Spain | Denise Ballesteros |