Nisha Agarwal Affiliated Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Nisha Agarwal is the Director of the Health Justice Program at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI), a civil rights legal non-profit in New York City. She came to NYLPI in September 2006 on a Skadden Public Interest Fellowship, and her work since that time has focused on bringing a racial justice and immigrant rights perspective to health care advocacy. In collaboration with community-based organizations and coalitions across New York City, Nisha is working on campaigns on language rights in pharmacies, racial discrimination in hospitals, medical deportation and the closure of community hospitals and clinics in medically under-served areas. Nisha is active in the South Asian Bar Association of New York, where she has served as the Vice President for Public Interest for the past three years, and she is the 2010 recipient of the North American South Asian Bar Association Public Interest Achievement Award. In addition, Nisha is the co-founder of the Harvard Law School Summer Theory Institute for public interest law students and sits on the Board of Trustees for the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BA, summa cum laude, from Harvard College and received a British Marshall Scholarship for study at the University of Oxford. She received her JD from Harvard Law School in 2006.

Swethaa Ballakrishnen Affiliated Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Swethaa Ballakrishnen was an Inlaks Scholar to the Harvard LL.M class’08 and a ’04 graduate of the NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad (where she won the Amancharla Krishna Murti Memorial Gold Medal for the best student of her graduating batch). In 2008, she joined PLP and EALS as a Joint Research Fellow with a South Asia specific research agenda.

Before coming to Harvard, Ms. Ballakrishnen was an international finance lawyer with the Mumbai offices of Amarchand Mangaldas & Suresh A. Shroff & Co., an intern at the Supreme Court of India with Justice A. Pasayat and spent a year teaching international finance and legal methods at two national law schools in Hyderabad and Bhopal, India.

Jocelyn Simonson Affiliated Fellow Program on the Legal Profession Harvard Law School 23 Everett Street #G-24 Cambridge, MA 02138

Jocelyn Simonson is a Supervising Attorney in the Criminal Defense Practice at the Bronx Defenders, Inc., where since 2007 she has represented indigent clients charged with misdemeanors and felonies in criminal court. At the Bronx Defenders, Jocelyn practices a holistic model of public defense, working with colleagues across disciplines to address the causes and collateral consequences of arrests. Jocelyn graduated cum laude from HLS in 2006. Before joining the Bronx Defenders, she was a clerk for Judge Barrington D. Parker, Jr. on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

As a Fellow at the Program on the Legal Profession, Jocelyn co-founded and co-directs the Harvard Law School Summer Theory Institute and the Theory-Practice Colloquium. Her article with Nisha Agarwal, "Thinking Like a Public Interest Lawyer: Theory, Practice and Pedagogy," will be published in the NYU Journal of Law and Social Change in 2010.