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The Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center’s Fellows Program is a selective co-curricular program and community that provides training and professional development in honing key leadership skills. JD students apply and are selected early in their first year at NYU Law; the application is open to all 1Ls. Participation kicks off with the Sara Moss Women’s Leadership Intensive, a week-long intensive that takes place during winter break, named in recognition of Sara Moss ’74, a BWLC founding supporter.

BWLC Fellows 2028 — BWLC Fellows from the Class of 2028, with BWLC Advisory Board Member and Leadership Intensive namesake Sara Moss (front center), BWLC Legal Fellow Kelsey Kinoshita (right of center), and Coach Morenike Williams (back center).

BWLC Fellow Fernanda Olivera '27 moderating a discussion on pathways to leadership with Lisa Boykin (Netflix) and BWLC Advisory Board Member Twyla Carter (Legal Aid Society) (pictured left) at the NYU Law Inaugural Leadership Summit. ©Slezak: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau.

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The BWLC also administers the Abby Lyn Gillette Fellowship, which provides a generous stipend to a rising 2L or 3L student whose summer internship focuses on women’s rights. This award was established in honor of the late Abby Lyn Gillette, former assistant dean of academic affairs at NYU School of Law from 2000 to 2008, by her husband, Professor Clayton Gillette, and their son Alex, to commemorate her commitment to advancing women’s leadership in the legal profession.