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Advocacy at CHRJ

Housing Justice Project –- CHRJ PILA Grant

Hurricane Katrina Relief Project -- Urgent Actions

CHRJ PILA Grant

Each year, CHRJ proudly funds UW law students' full-time summer work in the human rights field through full and half PILA grants. CHRJ finances the grants through proceeds from its student-run bookstore and its annual Donate a Day's Pay fundraising drive. The grant is awarded through the Public Interest Law Association grant application process each spring.

Stay tuned for information about this summer's grantees!

Past Grantees

Keisha Knight (Class of 2009)

Dedicated to children’s education since the age of 15, Keisha graduated from Barnard College with a degree in comparative religion. Keisha went on to pursue a career as an independent filmmaker before moving to Asia in 2004. After two years of teaching children in China and Thailand Keisha arrived at law school interested in International Public Interest Law with a specific focus on children’s rights. Keisha spent the summer at The Children’s Foundation (CRADLE) in Nairobi, Kenya. She teamed up with CRADLE’s Policy, Advocacy, and Research Department and conducted research on legal issues surrounding sexual abuse and child trafficking in Kenya. Keisha’s findings were published by CRADLE for distribution to an international audience as well as local NGOs and community organizations. Keisha also provided content and community organizing/distribution support for the "Letter Link," a unique publication designed for the child reader. The “Letter Link” directly educates children about their legal rights and the legal resources available to them.

Joanna Wilson (Class of 2007)

Joanna worked in the Asylum Unit of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP), a local legal services organization that serves low-income immigrants and refugees. She assisted the asylum attorney in developing viable asylum cases in general and specialized in gender-based asylum claims in particular. In this role, she conducted interviews with asylum seekers, wrote evaluations of the strength of the clients' cases, introduced the cases to pro bono attorneys, drafted asylum applications and pre-hearing statements to be submitted in court, and co-represented clients in removal proceedings. The culmination of her work at NWIRP was her successful co-representation in immigration court of a client seeking asylum on a gender-based ground.

Lindsey McCune (Class of 2007)

Lindsey received the Center for Human Rights and Justice Half Grant in 2005 to work at the Northwest Justice Project (NJP). At NJP, she researched the collateral consequences of criminal history and the application of criminal history in connection with fair housing violations.