Chloe Bartholomew
Sylvia A. Law Fellow in Economic Justice
Chloe Bartholomew grew up in the Greater New Orleans area. She is committed to working at the intersection of civil rights and racial justice and hopes to use her legal education to build systemic equality in partnership with communities of color. Chloe graduated from the University of Chicago in 2022 with degrees in Classical Studies, English Language & Literature, and Law, Letters, & Society. Before law school, she interned at the Orleans Public Defender’s Office and at the ACLU of Louisiana. At NYU Law, Chloe has served as a student advocate in the Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic, co-chair of the Asian Pacific Allied Law Students Association, co-chair of Ending the Prison Industrial Complex, Public Interest co-chair of the Women of Color Collective, and Litigation and Advocacy co-chair of the American Constitution Society. She is an articles editor on the New York University Law Review and was a research assistant for Helen Hershkoff, Herbert M. and Svetlana Wachtell Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties, and Deborah N. Archer, Margaret B. Hoppin Professor of Clinical Law. She spent her 1L summer at Shanies Law Office, a civil rights law firm in New York, and her 2L summer at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York.
Madeline Batt
Roger Baldwin Fellow in Civil Liberties and Human Rights
Madeline Batt was born and raised in Massachusetts. She is committed to defending civil rights through movement lawyering. She graduated from Yale University in 2019 with a degree in political science and a certificate in human rights studies. Prior to law school, she spent three years as the Community Human Rights Fellow at Yale Law School’s Schell Center for Human Rights, working primarily on issues affecting the rights of incarcerated people. At NYU Law, Madeline has advocated in partnership with immigrant organizers through the Immigrant Rights Clinic and low-income drivers as co-president of the Taxi Worker Defense Collective. Madeline worked as a Research Assistant for Helen Hershkoff, Herbert M. and Svetlana Wachtell Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties. She spent her 1L summer as a workplace justice intern with Make the Road NY and her 2L summer at Just Futures Law working from New York City.
Anjali Dhillon
Leonard Boudin Fellow in First Amendment Law
Anjali Dhillon grew up in New Delhi and Dhaka. She is committed to advancing economic justice and the labor movement and is concerned with issues at the intersection of civil liberties, democratic autonomy, and economic institutions. She graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019 with a degree in history. Prior to law school, she gained experience in union organizing in Chicago, and later worked for a labor union in Portland, Oregon. At NYU Law, Anjali has served as co-president of the South Asian Law Students Association; a board member of Law Students for Economic Justice; a staff editor for the NYU Review of Law & Social Change, and a student advocate in the Immigrant Defense Clinic and in Mobilization for Justice’s Driver Protection Program. She also served as a teaching assistant for Omar Yousef Shehabi, acting assistant professor of Lawyering. Anjali spent her 1L summer as a Peggy Browning Fellow at Sherman Dunn P.C., a union-side labor law firm in Washington, DC, and her 2L summer at Hausfeld LLP, a plaintiff-side antitrust and international human rights litigation firm, also in DC.
Matthew Grossman
Robert Marshall Fellowship in Civil Liberties
Matt Grossman is from New Jersey. He is committed to indigent defense and individual representation of incarcerated persons. He graduated from Princeton University in 2022 with a major in public policy and a minor in finance. Prior to law school, he worked as a software engineer at a startup. During his 2L spring, Matt advocated for low-income tenants as part of The Legal Aid Society’s Housing Externship. He has also been a volunteer for the Immigrant Rights Project, a notes editor on the NYU Law Review, and the treasurer of the Public Interest Law Students Association. Matt also served as a research assistant to Helen Hershkoff, Herbert M. and Svetlana Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties, and Professor Daniel Harawa. During 1L summer he interned with the Colorado Public Defender in Golden, and during 2L summer at the Alaska Federal Defender’s Office in Anchorage.
Nina McKay
Norman and Harriette Dorsen Fellowship in Civil Liberties
Nina McKay grew up just outside of Philadelphia. She has a broad interest in civil rights and a particular focus on voting rights. She graduated from Bowdoin College in 2021 with a double major in history and religious studies and a minor in education. She wrote her undergraduate history thesis on the history of integration and segregation in Philadelphia metropolitan-area public schools. Before law school, Nina worked in legal services at Bread for the City in Washington, DC, through the Avodah Jewish Service Corps. At NYU Law, Nina is a co-president of the American Constitution Society, the intake coordinator for the Suspension Representation Project, a clinical extern at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund through the Racial Equity Strategies Clinic, and a managing editor of the NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy. Nina worked as a research assistant for Deborah N. Archer, Margaret B. Hoppin Professor of Clinical law, and a teaching assistant in 1L Civil Procedure for Professor Maggie Gardner. She spent her 1L summer at the Brennan Center for Justice's Democracy Program and her 2L summer at the ACLU Voting Rights Project in New York.
Galia Pino
Palmer Weber Fellowship in Civil Rights
Galia Pino grew up in Florida. She is committed to racial justice and civil liberties. Galia graduated from Emory University in 2021 with majors in Political Science and African American Studies. At NYU Law, Galia has served as co-chair of the Public Interest Law Student Association, co-chair of the Solitary Confinement Project, communications chair for the Women of Color Collective, a Parole Advocate, a staff editor on the Moot Court Board, and as part of the Rose Sheinberg Committee. Galia was also a part of the Racial Justice and Abolition Clinic where she worked with the Abolitionist Law Center on cases involving prison conditions, sentence commutations, and political prisoners. Galia spent her 1L summer at Reprieve UK, working with their US Death Penalty Team, and her 2L summer at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York.
Nick Wagner
Harriet Pilpel/Planned Parenthood Fellowship
Nick Wagner grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is committed to decarceration and reproductive justice. Nick graduated from the Ohio State University in 2021 with a degree in sociology and philosophy. Before coming to NYU Law, he completed a year of service with AmeriCorps, where he volunteered at a local Columbus school to tutor kindergartners one-on-one in early literacy. Nick is a student advocate with the Reproductive Justice Clinic, the co-chair of EPIC’s Prison Teaching Project, an online editor of the NYU Law Review, and a member of the Public Interest Law Students Association’s executive board. Additionally, he served as a research assistant for Helen Hershkoff, Herbert M. and Svetlana Wachtell Professor of Constitutional Law and Civil Liberties; and for the Jailhouse Lawyers Initiative with the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights. He also served as a research assistant and as a teaching assistant in 1L Legislation and the Regulatory State for Adam B. Cox, Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law. During his 1L summer, Nick worked at the Bernstein Institute for Human Rights; during 2L summer, he worked at the MacArthur Justice Center in their Supreme Court and Appellate Program in Washington, D.C.
Shawn Young
Deborah Rachel Linfield Fellowship in Freedom of the Press
Shawn Young grew up in New Jersey. He is passionate about helping communities of color build power and achieve self-determination. He graduated from Brown University in 2019 with a degree in Public Policy. Prior to law school, he worked in a variety of roles with government, political, and advocacy organizations. Most recently, he served as Special Assistant to San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros’s Financial Justice Project, where he advanced efforts to abolish excessive government fines and fees, including a successful legislative campaign to make phone calls in California state prisons free. At NYU Law, Shawn is a student advocate in the Civil Rights and Racial Justice Clinic, senior online editor of the NYU Law Review, and a board member of APALSA. Shawn also served as a research assistant to Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional law. Shawn spent his 1L summer at the ACLU of Northern California's Racial and Economic Justice Program and 2L summer at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia’s Special Litigation Division.