NYU Law students and recent graduates have earned a wide range of fellowships and scholarships in the most recent academic year. Organizations across the country honored their academic achievement and passion for making real-world change through the legal profession.
Below are select awards granted during the 2022-23 academic year.
Colorado Attorney General Consumer Protection Fellowship
Recipient: Soleil Ball Van Zee ’23
Colorado Department of Law–Office of the Attorney General
Equal Justice Works Fellowship
Recipients: Josh Goldstein ’23 (Equip for Equality, Chicago, IL); Conner Kozisek ’23 (Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Chicago, IL); Justin McCarroll ’23 (Georgia Resource Center, Atlanta, GA); Ellie Rutkey ’23 (Legal Services Center, The Door, New York, NY)
Founder Fellowship
Recipient: Esosa Ohonba ’23, Layman Ltd.
New York City Economic Development Corporation
Fried Frank Civil Rights Fellowship
Recipient: Antonio (Joe) DelGrande ’22
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Los Angeles, CA
Hunton Andrews Kurth Pro Bono Fellowship
Recipient: David Tisel ’23
Hunton Andrews Kurth, Richmond, VA
Immigrant Justice Corps Fellowships
Recipients: Sarah Butterfield ’22 (Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project), Abigail Nyberg ’23 (National Immigrant Justice Center, Chicago, IL); Zaynab Said ’23 (Brooklyn Defender Services, New York, NY)
Justice Catalyst Fellowship
Recipient: Nicola Morrow ’23
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Washington, DC)
Knight First Amendment Institute Legal Fellowship
Recipient: Nicole Mo ’23
Knight Institute, New York, NY
Marvin M. Karpatkin Fellowship
Recipient: Vedan Anthony-North ’21
ACLU Racial Justice Program, New York, NY
McKanna Bishop Joffe Legal Fellowship
Recipient: Max (Donald) McCollough ’23
McKanna Bishop Joffe, Portland, OR
National Center on Philanthropy and the Law Fellowship
Recipient: Celine Zhu ’23
Lawyers Alliance for New York
ODBAR Scholarship
Recipient: Lahi Abdi ’24
Ogletree Deakins
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Recipient: Cinthia Zavala Ramos ’25
Peggy Browning Fellowship
Recipients: Anjali Dhillon ’25 (Sherman Dunn, Washington, DC.); Isabel Hellman ’25 (Migrant Justice, Burlington, VT); Peter Rawlings ’24 (NYSUT –New York State United Teachers in New York, NY)
Peggy Browning Fund, Philadelphia, PA
Prettyman Fellowship
Recipients: Eloisa Cleveland ’23, Miriam Thorne ’23
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington DC
Service Employees International Union Legal Fellowship
Recipient: Mac McMechan ’23
Service Employees International Union, Washington, DC
Skadden Fellowships
Recipients: Matthew Escalante ’23 (Legal Aid Chicago, Chicago, IL), David Sunshine Hamburger ’23 (Georgia Legal Services Program, Savannah, GA), Zakiya Lewis ’23 (Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC), Annie Lo ’23 (Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, New York, NY), Bex Rothenberg-Montz ’23 (Housing Works, Brooklyn, NY), and Michaela Shuchman ’23 (Bronx Legal Services, New York, NY)
Southern Environmental Law Center Litigation Fellowship
Recipient: Ursa Heidinger ’23
Southern Environmental Law Center, Charleston, SC
Susman Godfrey Prize
Recipient: Christopher Kim ’24
Susman Godfrey
Tycko & Zavareei Public Interest Fellowship
Recipient: Em Cooper ’23
Tycko & Zavareei, Washington, DC
UN International Law Commission Fellowship
Recipients: Kaiqiang Zhang LLM ’23, James Low LLM ’23
UN International Law Commission, Geneva, Switzerland
US Department of Justice Cyber Fellowship
Recipient: Antara Joardar ’23
US Department of Justice, Washington, DC
Wardenski PC Litigation Fellowship
Recipient: Alexandra Vance ’23
Wardenski PC, Brooklyn, NY
Learn more about NYU Law’s own post-graduate fellowships.
Posted on August 14, 2023.