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In 2008, Equal Justice America launched its Louisiana 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 Louisiana legal aid organizations.

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

Summer 2009

  • Tyler Douglas (Loyola University of New Orleans) worked at New Orleans Legal Assistance.
  • Kate Lee (Cornell) worked at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services in New Orleans.
  • Homero Lopez Jr. (Tulane University) and Pellerree Steadman (Tulane University) worked at the Catholic Charities Archdiocese of New Orleans.

Fall 2008

  • Laila Hlass (Columbia University Class of 2008) began a two-year $80,000 post-graduate EJA Fellowship at the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University.

Summer 2008

  • Samika Boyd (UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall) and Homero Lopez (Tulane University) worked at New Orleans Legal Assistance.
  • Evelyn Breithaupt (Harvard) worked at the Student Hurricane Network in New Orleans
  • Joseph Briggett (Tulane University) worked at the Advocacy Center of Louisiana in New Orleans.
  • Shannon Moore-Langston (Brooklyn) worked at the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana.