2012 EPIC SUMMER GRANT WINNERS


1. Brooks Anderson

DeKalb County Solicitor-General’s Office, Decatur, GA

2. Vinita Andrapalliyal

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC

(Joseph M. Beck Grant)

3. Amanda Baker

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC

(Troutman Sanders Grant)

4. Megan Ballard

U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, Atlanta, GA

Janet Hayes Davis Foundation Grant)

5. Alyssa Baskam

Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Senior Citizens Law Project, Atlanta, GA

(Sutherland Grant)

6. Vicki Bass

Georgia Attorney General’s Office, Atlanta, GA

7. Melissa Bonnington

Georgia Lawyers for the Arts, Atlanta, GA

(Laura S. Huffman Grant)

8. Ruth Dawson

ACLU of Northern California, San Francisco, CA

(Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship)

9. Rachel Echemendia

San Diego County Public Defender, Juvenile Division, San Diego, CA

(Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton Grant)

10. Ernesto Escobar

Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Hispanic Outreach Unit, Decatur, GA

11. Jasmine Gibbs

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Atlanta, GA

12. Erin Henschel

Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, Kailua-Kona, HI

13. Sean Hoffman

Illinois Attorney General’s Office, Chicago, IL

14. Ryan Hughes

New York Civil Liberties Union, New York, NY

15. Anam Ismail

Georgia Innocence Project, Decatur, GA

(Troutman Sanders Grant)

16. Brian Kaufman

Georgia Innocence Project, Decatur, GA

(Sutherland Grant)

17. Joel Langdon

U.S. Attorney’s Office, Atlanta, GA

18. Vanessa Lee

U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor, Atlanta, GA

19. Juliana Lorenzo

Clatyon County District Attorney’s Office, Jonesboro, GA

20. Jacob Madsen

Fulton County Public Defender’s Office, Atlanta, GA

(Briggs Tobin Grant)

21. Lillian Martin

ACLU of Georgia, Atlanta, GA

22. Leonard Mathis

DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office, Decatur, GA

(Goico & Bolet Grant in Honor of Howard O. Hunter)

23. Meredith McCarrey

Federal Defender Program, Atlanta, GA

24. Hannah McLear

Latin American Association, Atlanta, GA

25. Stephanie Nullman

DeKalb County Public Defender’s Office, Decatur, GA

26. Ashley O’Neal

DeKalb County Solicitor-General’s Office, Decatur, GA

27. Amelia Parr

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Atlanta, GA

28. Rachel Reed

DeKalb County Public Defender’s Office, Decatur, GA,

and U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, Atlanta, GA

29. Laura Rivera

ACLU of Georgia, National Security/Immigrants’ Rights Project, Atlanta, GA

and The Honorable Sidney I. Schenkier (N.D., Ill.), Chicago, IL

(H.A. Stephens Memorial Grant)

30. Sharon Samuel

U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Washington, DC

31. Jamie Schickler

DeKalb County Public Defender’s Office, Decatur, GA

(Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship)

32. Amanda Siefman

Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County, Family Law Project, West Palm Beach, FL

33. Kioceaia Stenson

Georgia Innocence Project, Decatur, GA

(Norman & Bettina Roberts Foundation Grant)

34. Sara Warren

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Atlanta, GA

35. Ashley Webb-Orenstein

Rockland County District Attorney’s Office, New City, NY

36. Timothy Wilson

U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, Washington, DC

(Kimberly L. Myers Grant)