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A Celebration of Public Interest
March 13-15, 2008
Committee
Honorary Co-Chairs
James E. Johnson '86 – Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Nadine Strossen '75 – President of the ACLU, and Professor, New York Law School
Harvard Law School Co-Chairs
Carol Steiker '86, Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law; Special Advisor for Public Service, Harvard Law School; HLS Faculty Associate, Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, Harvard University
Alexa Shabecoff, Assistant Dean for Public Service, Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising, Harvard Law School
Advisory Committee
Jacqueline A. Berrien '86 – Deputy Director-Counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Education Fund
Avis E. Buchanan '81 – Director, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia
James A. Goldston '87 – Executive Director of the Open Society Institute Justice Initiative
Scott Harshbarger '68 – Senior Counsel, Proskauer Rose LLP; former Massachusetts Attorney General
Larry Johnson '70 – Assistant Secretary General for Legal Affairs, United Nations
Juliette Kayyem '95 – Massachusetts Secretary of Homeland Security
Howard A. Learner '80 – Executive Director, Environmental Law and Policy Center of the Midwest
Alan B. Morrison '66 – Special Counsel to the Attorney General for the District of Columbia
Rod J. Rosenstein '89 – U.S. Attorney for the State of Maryland
Hon. Patti B. Saris '76 – U.S. District Court Judge, District of Massachusetts
William L. Saunders '80 – Human Rights Counsel, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Human Life and Bioethics at the Family Research Council
Jamienne S. Studley '75 – President and CEO, Public Advocates
Julie A. Su '94 – Litigation Director, Asian Pacific American Law Center
Programming Committee
Deborah Anker – Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the Harvard Law School Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program Harvard Law School
Jacqueline Berrien '86 – Deputy Director-Counsel, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Education Fund
Jenny Brody '81 – Executive Director, District of Columbia Volunteer Lawyers Project
Lisa Dealy – Director, Clinical and Pro Bono Programs, Harvard Law School
Jim Freeman '03 – Staff Attorney, Advancement Project
Andrea Friedman '05 – Vice President and Senior Counsel, Global Justice Center
Larry Johnson '70 – Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, United Nations
Deborah Gordon Klehr '04 – Staff Attorney, Education Law Center of Pennsylvania
Howard A. Learner '80 – President and Executive Director, Environmental Law and Policy Center
Sarah Mattson '05 – Skadden Fellow, New Hampshire Legal Assistance
Elaine McArdle – Director of Communications, Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs, Harvard Law School
Leah Plunkett '06 – Staff Attorney, New Hampshire Legal Assistance
Joan Ruttenberg '82 – Director, Heyman Fellowship in Federal Government Service, Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising, Harvard Law School
Charlotte Sanders '05 – Skadden Fellow, Farmworker Division, Georgia Legal Services Program, Inc.
Alexa Shabecoff – Assistant Dean for Public Service, Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising, Harvard Law School
Anna Spain '04 – Assistant Director, Burkle Center for International Relations, University of California, Los Angeles
Carolyn Stafford Stein '85 – Attorney Advisor, Bernard Koteen Office of Public Interest Advising, Harvard Law School
Lauren Sudeall '05 – Soros Justice Fellow, Southern Center for Human Rights
Jeanne Tai – Assistant Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Sponsorship Chair
Maria A. Skirnick '69 – Partner, Meredith, Cohen Greenfogel & Skirnick
Outreach
Karina Chamorro – Administrative Coordinator, Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs, Harvard Law School
Elaine McArdle – Director of Communications, Office of Clinical and Pro Bono Programs, Harvard Law School
Brandon Weiss '08 – Student Outreach Chair