Brooklyn Law School Public Service Awards Ceremony Honoring Public Service at Brooklyn Law School and the Accomplishments of the Class of 2016 Tuesday, March 29, 2016 5:30-7:30 pm Brooklyn Law School
Our Honorees Members of the Class of 2016, who will pursue a wide array of careers, have performed exceptional pro bono and public service work in organizations ranging from The Legal Aid Society to the Kings County District Attorney s Office and from the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Over the course of these students law school careers, they have devoted almost 70,000 hours to assisting individuals charged with crimes, immigrants, survivors of domestic violence, people seeking health care benefits, low-income taxpayers, children, veterans, and others. The Public Interest Public Service (PipS) Fellows and Pro Bono Scholars are devoting thousands of additional hours to working full-time at government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and performing pro bono work at law firms. STUDENTS WHO PERFORMED OUTSTANDING PUBLIC SERVICE PLATINUM 1,000+ hours Israel Appel Gina Barrios Aguero Vanessa Domenichelli Claire Gavin Aaron Kurtzer Shirley Luong Nicole Persaud Ishrat Ruhi Audrey Sheetz GOLD 500-999 hours Desiree Alexander Bradford Bray Daniel Chertok Evaline Cho Charli Cleland Shalisa Cumberbatch Sara Dejam Sarah Esmi Darryn Fitzgerald Raul Galan Samuel Goldfine Michelle Grecco Morgan Guinnip Michael Hopkins Lauren Jadevero Zaina Khoury Amanda Levine Nicholas Manningham Stephanie Michael Ariela Moskowitz Samantha Oakes
Michael Oh Palak Patel Brenden Ross Jillian Rudge Maria Ryden Lillian Smith Nina Vershuta Meghan Walsh Peter Weinmann Sam Weiss Joshua Zarcone Allison Zimmerman SILVER 250-499 hours Allen Abraham Fatima Afia Daniel Altaras Ashley Barnes Anthony Beneduce Jillian Bledsoe Benjamin Brash Caitrin Coccoma Patrick Collopy David Craft Nicholas Crudele Dexin Deng Taylor Dougherty Maria Ficalora Christopher Gerace Eliezer Gewirtz Emily Gold Katherine Harrigan Liya Huluka Katarzyna Januszkiew Edward Kim Andrew Kissner Jordan Lipschik Brittany Lischinsky Joyce Ma Luke Maiman Joseph Maniscalco David Mazzuca Herberth Melendez Suzanne Mourad Kwok Kei Ng Douglas O Donovan Eleanor Pinto Lailey Rezai Benjamin Riesenberg Katherine Rodriguez Chloe Rommes Jason Rubenfeld Benjamin Schachter Stephanie Schachter Minho Seo Sofia Skarlatos Daria Spieler Daniel Sullivan Shelbey Tamayo Nikki Todadze Michael Troiano Adeneiki Williams Alyssa Wolfe Jason Yeoun
PRO BONO AWARD 100-249 hours Binyomin Bendet Andrew Braunstein Cynthia Cuza-Howard Kyle Di Zeo Alexandra Elbaum Peter Feher Kristyn Fields Julia Harvey Alexandra Jonas Lili Rogowsky Daniel Tarantola Alexandria Todd PRO BONO PROJECT LEADERS Student-led projects are at the heart of the BLS pro bono experience. They offer unique leadership and practical opportunities while helping underserved populations. This celebration, in part, is to honor those graduating students who displayed outstanding student leadership in the school s 28 pro bono projects. These students founded projects, revived and revitalized dormant projects, and took over other projects requiring sophisticated oversight. For all of your hard work, we thank you, graduating pro bono project leaders: Ginna Barrios Aguero Brian Brown Ben Chananie Evaline Cho Charli Cleland Jennifer Collins Taylor Dougherty Alexandra Downey Steven Fields Lucas Franken Michael Hopkins David Jacobson Edward Kim Sang Lee Meghan Lenahan Salman Malik Stephanie Michael Lili Rogowsky Robert Rose Lillian Smith Alyssa Wolfe
ACCESS TO JUSTICE AWARD PipS Fellows and Pro Bono Scholars BLS s Public Interest-Public Service (PipS) Fellows spend their third year of law school working full-time at nonprofit organizations and government agencies, while Pro Bono Scholars spend their final semester providing direct legal services to low-income individuals: Israel Appel Caitrin Coccoma Shalisa Cumberbatch Michael Feldberg Claire Gavin Maura Heron Marcin Nadgorski Douglas O Donovan Charles Perez Katherine Rodriguez Brenden Ross Ishrat Ruhi Jessica Soricelli Meghan Walsh Adam Yefet