SWH’s summer associate program is highly competitive. SWH offers an unprecedented level of responsibility to our summers. For example, summers have attended mediations, second-chaired depositions and drafted complaints and memoranda filed in federal court.
In two instances within the past year, summers have played an active role in trial (a race discrimination matter in federal court in Tennessee, and a wrongful death case on behalf of an African-American who suffered from sickle cell anemia in federal court in California).
Many of our summer associates go on to prestigious federal clerkships and coveted jobs in public interest law in the non-profit, government, and for-profit sectors. We have offered one year litigation fellowships and full time associate positions to summer associates who prove to be exemplary, even when measured against their incredible peers.
SWH is proud to have its 2011 Summer Associate Class join its ranks:
John Albanese is a rising 3L at Columbia. He is a Managing Editor on the Columbia Law Review, is involved with the High School Law Institute as a mock trial teacher, and works as Public Interest Chair with Columbia's Midwest Society.
Yaser Ali is a rising 3L at UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He is the Co-Founder and Chair of the Boalt Civil Rights Outreach Project, Articles Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Middle Eastern & Islamic Law, and President of the Boalt Muslim Students Association.
Peter Aronoff is a recent graduate of Columbia, where he was an Articles Editor on the Columbia Law Review. He will be clerking for the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals starting in January of 2012.
Joshua Falakassa is a rising 2L at Boalt. He is a member of the asylum representation clinic and the Berkeley tax law clinic, is a contributing editor to the Campus Civil Rights Manual, and works on the Civil Rights Outreach Project.
Deeona Gaskin is a rising 3L at Harvard and is also working on her MPH from Harvard’s Public Health School. She is a member of the Student Public Interest Network, Harvard Law and Heath Care Society, BLSA and the immigration and refugee clinic.
Jennie Han is a recent graduate of Yale Law School who also has her PHD from U. Chicago in Political Science and was a Rhodes Scholar in 2002. She has worked in the Transitions Clinic to provide medical care to recently released prisoners and in the Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project.
Jazmin Holmes is a rising 2L at Harvard. She subcites for the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review and is a member of the BLSA Executive Board and Social Justice Committee, the Prison Legal Assistance Program, and the Harvard Law and Health Care Society.
Supawon (Wonny) Lervisit is a rising 3L at Harvard. She is a member of the Women’s Law Association, the Harvard Immigration Project, and has worked in the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau clinic.
Gerardo Vicuña is a rising 2L at UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law. He works as a counselor at the Workers’ Rights Clinic and is the Recruitment Chair of La Raza Law Student Association.
Brianna Wilson is a rising 2L at Columbia. She is a member of the ACLU and BLSA; has worked with the New York State United Teachers union; and has a particular interest in labor law issues.