Skadden Fellowships awarded to NYU Law alumna and three students

Three current NYU Law students and one alumna—Vedan Anthony-North ’21, Joelle Besch ’26, Danielle Miles-Langaigne ’26, and Eve Zelickson ’26—will receive 2026 Skadden Fellowships, the Skadden Fellowship Foundation announced on December 15. 

Launched in 1988 by the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, the program funds two-year public interest fellowships for recent law graduates, allowing them to help address the unmet civil legal needs of people living in poverty in the United States. Students are chosen as Fellows after designing a job and securing a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization to supervise their work. 

Among law schools, NYU Law has the second-highest number of Fellows in the newly announced Fellowship class.

• At the ACLU Foundation in New York City, Anthony-North will contest federal grant terminations that target public-health initiatives designed to address health disparities. She will also represent providers who serve low-income populations and have lost funding.
• Besch will work at the ACLU Women’s Rights Project in New York City. She will protect low-wage immigrant hotel workers from wage theft, trafficking, and harassment by holding hotels accountable for abuses by their subcontractors.
• Through Brooklyn Defender Services in New York City, Miles-Langaigne will provide direct representation to indigent parents who have been excluded from educational decisions for their children who have been placed in the foster system.
• Zelickson will spend her fellowship at the Community Service Society of New York in New York City. Her focus will be on protecting low-income New Yorkers from Medicaid coverage loss and medical debt, through legal representation and enforcement of hospital financial-assistance rules.