Current Law Fellows

Lisa Fanning is a 2024 graduate of Harvard Law School, where she studied civil rights lawyering and health law. She interned with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office Health Care Division, Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C., and the Philadelphia Public Interest Law Center.

Lisa is sponsored by the Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project, where she works on improving access to necessary healthcare and safety measures for LGBTQIA+ incarcerated people with a focus on gender affirming care.

Juan P. Madrigal is a 2024 graduate of University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he was a Toll Public Interest Scholar, Community Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Public Affairs, and recipient of the Exceptional Pro Bono Service Award. He interned for the U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Community Legal Services as a Peggy Browning Fellow. Prior to law school, he directed an employment advocacy program for justice-impacted and disabled workers at Goodwill Industries.

Juan is sponsored by Community Legal Services to expand access to employment law services and criminal record-clearing for workers in Kensington. 

Meggie McCarthy-White is a 2024 graduate of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, where she was a certified legal intern in Villanova’s Health Law Clinic and president of the Villanova Health Law Society. She also received awards for excellence in legal writing, family law, and pro bono service. Meggie completed internships with the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Office of General Counsel and the EEOC Hearings Unit, and she worked in health policy prior to law school.

Meggie is sponsored by Pennsylvania Health Law Project. Her project focuses on advancing the legal rights of individuals in Community HealthChoices, Pennsylvania's managed long-term services and supports program for low-income individuals, older adults, and individuals with disabilities.

Solveig Olson-Strom is a 2024 graduate of Yale Law School, where she was a member of the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic. She interned at Just Futures Law and the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.

Solveig is sponsored by Justice at Work. Her work focuses on representing noncitizen workers experiencing workplace abuse and exploitation in the counties surrounding Philadelphia. 

Livia Luan is a 2023 graduate of Temple University Beasley School of Law, where she was a Rubin-Presser Social Justice Fellow, Co-President of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, and Managing Editor and Diversity Editor of the Temple International and Comparative Law Journal. She interned for the ACLU of Pennsylvania and Georgetown Law's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, and she worked for Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC prior to law school. 

Livia is sponsored by Community Legal Services to expand access to long term care services for immigrants in Philadelphia.

Emily Miles is a 2021 graduate of Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University. Emily holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Business from Northeastern University, and has most recently served as a Judicial Law Clerk for the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Emily is sponsored by HIAS PA, where she works with abused children in the Domestic Violence program. Her work assists undocumented child survivors of sexual abuse with legal assistance to pursue stable immigration status.
 

Nicole Scott is a 2022 Summa Cum Laude graduate of Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University, where she was awarded the Distinguished Pro Bono Award by the Drexel Law Review. Her previous work experience includes Women’s Law Project, PA Institutional Law Project, and a U.S. Army Medic.

Nicole is sponsored by Philadelphia Legal Assistance. Her project provides direct representation of parents who risk losing child custody because of housing instability caused by poverty and/or domestic violence.