2009 Arthur Liman Fellows

The Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University is pleased to announce the Brown University recipients of the 2009 Arthur Liman Undergraduate Summer Fellowship. The Fellowship is co-coordinated by the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University in partnership with the Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale Law School. This program allows for students to do summer work in the field of public interest law. Broadly defined, public interest law helps those often lacking resources to have adequate access to legal services. Liman Fellowships often exist at the intersection between law and human/civil rights movements. The generous support of the filmmaker Doug Liman, Brown class of 1988, and the Liman Fund, in memory of Doug’s father, Arthur Liman, Esq., fund these Undergraduate Summer Fellowships.

Kara Apland ’09

is a Political Science concentrator from St. Paul, MN. In the summer of 2008 she was awarded a Swearer International Fellowship to work with the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Monrovia, Liberia. This summer she will continue her work on transitional justice by working with either the International Center for Transitional Justice's Reparations Unit in New York or the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland.

Emma Clippinger ’09

founded Gardens for Health International, a nutrition-though-agriculture NGO for HIV-positive individuals in Rwanda. Hoping to eventually pursue a career in international human rights law, she will work at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU Law School or the International Center for Transitional Justice. She is a Development Studies/Comparative Literature concentrator.

Britt Harwood ’09

is a Public Policy and Comparative Literature concentrator who hopes to work with an organization this summer the combines legal advocacy, policy reform and direct services to confront the dysfunctions of the criminal justice system and the needs of disenfranchised urban populations. She is considering internships with the Vera Institute of Justice or the Mississippi Youth Justice Project.

Camilla Hawthorne ’09

will work with the International Institute in Providence summer focusing on immigration law doing a combination of community outreach/advocacy, and case aid. Camilla has coordinated the Genesis ESOL Program, which is designed to serve as a teacher education program for Brown students who are interested in gaining skills in adult education. The program is a collaboration between the Swearer Center and the Genesis Center, an adult school that provides classes for immigrants and refugees from around the world. Camilla will return to Brown in the fall to pursue a Masters of Public Affairs.

Hannah Creek Olson ’10

will work this summer with the Columbia Law School Human Rights Clinic where she will be part of their US project for immigration rights. She is from Minnetonka, MN and is a pursuing a dual concentration in Development Studies and Spanish and Portuguese Comparative Literature.