Public Interest Academy
Saturday, September 15 - Statler Hotel
Schedule of Events
Public Interest Academy
Saturday, September 15 - Statler Hotel
Schedule of Events
10:00 am – 12:00 pm Mindful Public Interest Practice
Samara Anderson
Legal and Policy Advisor for the State of Vermont, Agency of Human Services, Registered Yoga Medicine™ Yoga Teacher Waterbury, VT
11:30 am –1:15 pm Registration/ Keynote
Bryan Hetherington ’75 Former Chief Counsel, Empire Justice Center Rochester, NY
1:30 pm –2:30 pm Tipping the Scales Toward Justice in Tumultuous Times: How to be an effective lawyer and advocate in polarized times
Zohra Ahmed Clinical Teaching Fellow, The Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide Ithaca, NY
Stephanie Delgado– Garcia Direct Representation Attorney, Kids In Need of Defense Los Angeles, CA
Tanya Douglas Director of Disability Advocacy Project at Manhattan Legal Services New York, NY
Milo Primeaux Civil Rights Attorney, Law Office of Milo Primeaux Dansville, NY
Joseph Storch Associate Counsel, SUNY Office of General Counsel and Chair of the Student Affairs Practice Group Albany, NY
2:45 pm –3:45 pm Conducting a Cost-Benefit Analysis of a Public Interest Path: Can I really live on a public interest salary?
Natalie Knott Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County Rochester, NY
Kaitlyn Schroeder ’18 Law Graduate, Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project Buffalo, NY.
Rachel Sherman Vice President of Client Service at Market Street Trust Company Corning, NY
John Tobin’74 Former Executive Director, New Hampshire Legal Assistance Concord, NH
4:00pm – 5:00 pm Weighing Your Options...Is that Public Interest Too? Discover great public interest careers
Quisquella Addison Program Director, LawHelpNY Program Director at Pro Bono Net New York, NY
Kimberly Brown Obama Foundation Scholar with University of Chicago/Former Program Manager, International Development Law Organization Nairobi, Kenya
Femi Cadmus Edward Cornell Law Librarian, Associate Dean for Library Services, and Professor of Practice- Cornell Law School/ President, American Association of Law Libraries Ithaca, NY
Bee-Seon Keum’10 Staff Attorney, Lawyers Alliance New York, NY
Sara Lulo’02 Assistant Dean, Yale Law School New Haven, CT
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Reception – sponsored by FLWBA (Finger Lakes Women’s Bar Association)
Sponsored by ACS, Briggs, LALSA, NLG, PILU, and the Office of Public Service
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Speakers
Quisquella Addison
Program Director, LawHelpNY Program Director at Pro Bono Net
New York, NY
Zohra Ahmed
Clinical Teaching Fellow, Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide
Ithaca, NY
Samara Anderson
Legal and Policy Advisor for the State of Vermont, Agency of Human Services, Registered Yoga Medicine™ Yoga Teacher
Waterbury, VT
Kimberly Brown
Obama Foundation Scholar with University of Chicago/Former Program Manager, International Development Law Organization
Nairobi, Kenya
Femi Cadmus
Edward Cornell Law Librarian, Associate Dean for Library Services, and Professor of Practice- Cornell Law School/ President, American Association of Law Libraries
Ithaca, NY
Stephanie Delgado-Garcia
Direct Representation Attorney, Kids In Need of Defense
Los Angeles, CA
Tanya Douglas ’92
Director of Disability Advocacy Project at Manhattan Legal Services
New York, NY
Bryan Hetherington ’75
Former Chief Counsel, Empire Justice Center
Rochester, NY
Bee-Seon Keum ’10
Staff Attorney, Lawyers Alliance for New York
New York, NY
Natalie Knott
Assistant Public Defender, Monroe County
Geneva, NY
Sara Lulo ’02
Assistant Dean, Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
Emile “Milo” Primeaux
Civil Rights Attorney, Law Office of Milo Primeaux
Dansville, NY
Kaitlyn Schroeder
Law Graduate, Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project
Buffalo, NY
Rachel Sherman
Vice President of Client Service at Market Street Trust Company
Corning, NY
Joseph Storch’06
Associate Counsel in the SUNY Office of General Counsel and Chair of the Student Affairs Practice Group
Albany, NY
John Tobin ’74
Former Executive Director, New Hampshire Legal Assistance
Concord, NH