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Clinical Instructor in the Housing Law / Litigation Practice Group
ecaramello@law.harvard.edu, 617.390.2568
In the fall of 2006, Esme joined the Housing Unit as a Clinical Instructor after five years as a Chesterfield Smith Community Service Fellow and litigation associate at Holland & Knight. During her Smith Fellowship, Esme worked exclusively on pro bono matters with a focus on housing law. In partnership with Greater Boston Legal Services, she represented low income tenants in summary process cases and law reform initiatives, including work on the 2004 law that addressed well-documented abuses in the eviction storage industry. During law school, Esme handled housing and disability rights cases as a student attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services and completed clinical placements at the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and Harvard’s Criminal Justice Institute. From 2000 to 2001, Esme served as law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Charles P. Kocoras. She was the first employee of the National Voting Rights Institute and is Board President of MassVOTE, a non-partisan voting rights organization that works with non-profit organizations to increase voter education and turnout and to eliminate voter participation barriers, especially among communities of color, language minorities, low income people, youth, new Americans, and the disabled. Esme is a graduate of Harvard College (1994) and Harvard Law School (1999).
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