Foundation Welcomes
37th Class
We're thrilled to introduce our 2025 Skadden Fellows. Hailing from 18 law schools across the country, these 28 individuals will begin their public interest careers by addressing a broad range of civil legal issues affecting people living in poverty throughout the United States.
2025
The Legal Aid Society of New York, New York, NY
Alice Min
Challenge the NYPD’s use of illegal surveillance technology and assist individuals harmed by this surveillance in expunging their information from the NYPD’s databases.
Working as an investigator at a public defender’s office in New York City prior to law school, I witnessed with alarm the increasingly pervasive and discriminatory nature of the NYPD’s surveillance machine. I want to fight against this unjust surveillance of immigrant and minority communities so that everyone can move through the city they call home without being criminalized.
2025
Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice, Boston, MA
Tamara Shamir
Provide direct representation to prevent wrongful deportations of asylum seekers in accelerated asylum programs (the Asylum Processing Rule and Family Expedited Removal Management).
I picked my project with the Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice to try to keep doing what Mabel does best: providing direct representation in the most deserted, difficult, and harm-causing parts of the immigration system. I will provide a frontline response to accelerated asylum programs like APR and FERM, in which 92% of individuals and 97% of families are unrepresented, constituting one of the most dangerous sites producing wrongful and potentially lethal deportations.
2025
Southern Legal Counsel, Gainesville, FL
Anthony Javier Black
Provide low-threshold, client-centered services addressing health-harming unmet legal needs among transgender adult patients by expanding an existing medical-legal partnership with a regional health care system in Florida.
This project is the culmination of love and respect for trans and queer elders who fought for rights that are under attack today. It is my way to leverage legal systems to protect, affirm, and empower trans people and provide legal resource navigation to address upstream determinants of health.
2025
ACLU - Disability Rights Program, San Francisco, CA
Brittney Dorton
Advocate for the capacity, autonomy and dignity of people with disabilities by representing low-income people under or at risk of conservatorship in California and working with courts, law school clinics and community partners to educate people about alternatives to conservatorship.
As a disabled person myself, I consider it a gift to be able to represent my community and fight for disability justice. Challenging conservatorships is one way to change the limiting narratives around disability and build a more accessible future.