Alumni Fellowships

  • Carolyn Seugling ’04 was a 2006 Equal Justice Works Fellow with the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants in Washington, D.C. She is now an attorney with the U.S. Department of Education.
  • Katie Lamb Cronin ’05 was an AmeriCorps Fellow with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago and then practiced for six years with Legal Aid of Western Missouri before joining the law faculty at the University of Kansas in 2012. She is a clinical associate professor and director of the medical/legal partnership at KU School of Law.
  • Kate Tarbert ’05 was a Bristow Fellow at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Office of the Solicitor General in 2006–07. Tarbert clerked for Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in 2005–06. She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in 2009–10. She is a counsel in O’Melveny & Myers’ Washington office.
  • Samar Ali ’06 (BS ’03) was a 2010–11 White House Fellow. Ali had clerked for Judge Gilbert S. Merritt Jr. ’60 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and worked as an associate with Hogan Lovells US before her fellowship. She is now the assistant commissioner for international affairs in Tennessee’s Department of Economic and Community Development.
  • Diana Goff ’06 was a 2009–10 Education and Professional Development Fellow with the American Society of International Law.
  • Julia Elam ’07 worked with the House Committee on energy and commerce in 2009–10 as a Louis Stokes Urban Health Policy Fellow sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus. Elam is now a program analyst at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management in Washington.
  • Maria Glover ’07 was a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School from 2010–12. The program allows promising legal scholars to launch their academic careers by devoting two years to teaching and research. Glover, who studies complex litigation, is now an associate
    professor of law at Georgetown University.
  • Preeti Kundra Deshmukh ’08 was a 2009-10 Publications Fellow with the American Society of International Law.
  • Genet Berhane ’10 was a Law Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy and then an Orrick Fellow with the Acumen Fund before joining Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe as an associate.
  • Shannon Fyfe ’10 received a Helton Fellowship, awarded by the American Society of International Law, for pro bono work at the Public International Law and Policy Group’s field office in Tanzania to develop law and policy recommendations regarding the treatment of albino citizens. She is now an associate with Hunton & Williams in Richmond, Virginia.
  • Barbara Barreno ’11 was a 2011 Public Interest Law Initiative Fellow with the National Immigrant Justice Center in Chicago. She is an associate with Sidley Austin in Chicago.

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