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In 2008, Equal Justice America launched its Connecticut for Equal Justice campaign to greatly increase legal services to the poor by creating new postgraduate, summer and school year fellowships, putting more law students to work with Connecticut legal aid organizations.

For more than a decade, Equal Justice America has sponsored the Yale Law School student-run Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association (NHLAA). The project provides vital assistance to victims of domestic violence who seek to file orders of protection.

The following law students have received fellowships from Equal Justice America to work in Connecticut on behalf of the poor.  Your support will help us continue and expand our program in Connecticut .   We need your help!

Please click the links below to read letters from the students on their EJA Fellowship experience and/or letters from the students’ supervisors.

Fall 2009

  • Yale law students Kaitlin Ainsworth, Kenneth Jamison, Chelsea Purvis and Kristin Shaffer are working at the Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

Summer 2009

  • Marina Castillo (University of Connecticut) worked at the Center for Children’s Advocacy in Hartford.

Fall 2008

  • Yale law students Kaitlin Ainsworth, Jonathan Cochran, Ilana Gelfman and Caroline Gross worked at the TRO Project at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.
  • Yale graduate Hannah Benton began a two-year $80,000 post-graduate EJA Fellowship at the Center for Children's Advocacy.

Summer 2008

  • Mariedy Collazo (University of Connecticut) worked at the Center for Children’s Advocacy.
  • Ailla Wasstrom-Welz (University of Connecticut) worked at Connecticut Legal Services.