Equal Justice Design Your Own Fellowship
Through the Design-Your-Own Fellowship program, Equal Justice Works seeks to create opportunities for lawyers to transform their passion for equal justice into a lifelong commitment to public service. Equal Justice Works Fellows work to ensure equal access to justice and address unmet legal needs among underserved populations across the country. Equal Justice Works values program participants who are diverse in many respects and who, in this diversity, can understand and empower the communities with whom and where they work in new ways. Applications generally close in early September , a year before commencement of the fellowship .
Equal Justice Works – Crime Victim Advocacy Program
The Equal Justice Works Crime Victims Advocacy Program (CVAP) mobilizes lawyers (attorney fellows) and law students (student fellows) to increase access to legal aid for survivors of crime, especially in underserved black, indigenous and people-of-color (BIPOC) communities.
Equal Justice Works – Housing Justice Project
The Equal Justice Works Housing Justice Program is currently mobilizing a cohort of law students, lawyers and community organizers to serve low-income individuals residing in Virginia, South Carolina and Maryland who are currently, or at risk of, experiencing housing instability and involuntary displacement, particularly due to eviction.
Equal Justice Works – Opioid Crisis Response Program
The Equal Justice Works Opioid Crisis Response Program mobilizes lawyers (attorney fellows) to provide education and direct civil legal services to Opioid Use Disorder-affected communities in need of legal services. This program focuses on removing legal barriers and providing access to wraparound services and treatment for OUD clients in underserved communities. Fellows will serve for two years.
The Skadden Fellowship Foundation program provides two-year fellowships to recent law graduates to pursue the practice of public interest law on a full-time basis. The Skadden Fellowship’s guiding principle is to improve legal services for the poor and encourage economic independence. Applications generally close in early September, a year before commencement of the fellowship .
Justice Catalyst administers one-year, potentially renewable, project-based fellowships for graduating law students, or graduates up to two years out of law school. The fellowship supports innovative social impact work at nonprofit organizations, unions, plaintiff-side/public interest law firms, and government agencies. The two-part application process is available in late August and closes in September, a year before commencement of the fellowship.
Echoing Green supports bold leaders from all over the world who see possibility in the face of the most existential challenges of our day. The organization strives to build a world that has yet to exist: a future free from racism and its far-reaching consequences, where all people can thrive. The fellowship is for people whose enterprises are at an early stage and who are experts on the challenge they’ve chosen to confront. They seek leaders who reflect the community they serve and bring deep knowledge of the issues into their work as they co-design solutions with and for their communities.