Class of 2007-08 Associate Director, Adolescent Health Programs National Partnership for Women & Families 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 650 Washington, D.C. 20009 Phone: 202 238 4826 Email: mtorrez@nationalpartnership.org

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Marya graduated cum laude from Georgetown Law, where she served as an editor on the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, helped start a Law Students for Choice chapter, and represented juvenile defendants through the Georgetown Juvenile Justice Clinic.  She was a research assistant with the Migrant Legal Action Program and a legal intern at People for the American Way.  Additionally, Marya interned at the National Women’s Law Center and the National Abortion Federation.  Upon graduation, Marya spent a year working as a Dorot Judicial Selection Project Fellow with Alliance for Justice, working on federal judicial nominees and access to justice issues. Prior to law school, Marya directed a youth crisis shelter, a teen center, and other intervention programs for at-risk youth.

Throughout her Fellowship year, Marya conducted extensive legal research and analysis, examining numerous state and federal statutes, investigating proposed legislation, and analyzing federal and state cases that were winding their way through the courts.  She studied state referendum initiatives, conducted interviews, and explored potential litigation strategies in conjunction with her colleagues.  Marya also undertook research projects concerning regulatory and administrative law, the use and effect of executive orders, and various constitutional law provisions.  In addition, she assisted one of her colleagues in preparing for oral argument in the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and she also attended the hearing in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Marya attends weekly staff meetings with both the legal and public policy departments, and travels to New York to meet with colleagues and discuss possible future cases.  In her spare time, Marya attended many events related to a myriad of social justice issues.  For example, she was awarded a scholarship enabling her to participate in the American Constitution Society annual conference.  She attended the annual luncheon of the National Partnership for Women and Families and the annual luncheon of the Alliance for Justice, where she previously worked as a fellow immediately after graduation from the Georgetown University Law Center.  Additionally, she returned to Georgetown Law to see the Henry Kaiser Memorial Lecture, where Lord Neil Gordon Kinnock discussed Globalization, Labor Conditions, and Human Rights.  She also audited an evening seminar at Georgetown Law on Health and Human Rights during the fall semester and on International Trafficking in Persons during the spring semester.  She also attended numerous other events related to social justice, such as the Feminist Legal Theory Conference at the University of Baltimore and a program organized by the Washington Council of Lawyers on how to stay in public interest law.

Marya is currently working as an Associate Director of Adolescent Health Programs at the National Partnership for Women and Families.