Blume Leaders in Residence Program 2025 Class

Kaushiki Chowdhury

Residency Dates: Wednesday, September 17 – Friday, September 19, 2025

Kaushiki is a career defender in both the criminal legal and family regulation systems. She began her legal career in 2011 as a public defender in Colorado. There, she defended and advocated for thousands of people at initial bail hearings through jury trials with some appellate work. After developing and honing her advocacy skills, Kaushiki moved to Oklahoma in 2017 to work for the families of North Tulsa at Still She Rises, a holistic legal nonprofit founded to address the staggering rates of female incarceration in Oklahoma. Kaushiki represented mothers charged with significant allegations, including enabling child abuse, child neglect, and murder in both criminal and civil proceedings. At Still She Rises, she learned the importance and benefits of working in an interdisciplinary office with a dedicated team working together on a parent’s behalf. While in Tulsa, Kaushiki witnessed firsthand how the family regulation system, working in tandem with the criminal legal system, harmed, punished, and devastated families in poor and Black and brown communities. As the practice head, Kaushiki led the development of the criminal and then the family defense divisions. Kaushiki has been invited to lead presentations and trainings nationally on holistic defense, developing client relationships, trial skills, and the intersection of the criminal legal and family regulation systems. She is on the faculty of the National Criminal Defense College. Kaushiki received her Bachelor of Arts in Government & Asian American Studies from The University of Texas at Austin and her Juris Doctorate from The University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Georgina Yeomans

Residency Dates: Wednesday, October 1 – Friday, October 3, 2025

Georgina Yeomans is an Associate General Counsel at the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, AFL-CIO (AFSCME), an international labor union representing over a million people, primarily in the public sector. As Associate General Counsel, Georgina focuses on the union’s litigation efforts, including its work in multiple federal lawsuits to protect the federal civil service. Prior to joining AFSCME, Georgina was a public servant, working as an appellate attorney at the EEOC. There, she argued civil rights cases in the Second, Third, Fifth, Seventh, and Ninth Circuits. She has also worked as an assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, an associate at union-side firm Bredhoff & Kaiser, and as a law clerk to Hon. Cornelia Pillard on the D.C. Circuit and Hon. Susan Carney on the Second Circuit. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her B.A. from Wesleyan University.

Madeline Gomez

Residency Dates: Wednesday, October 8 – Friday, October 10, 2025

Madeline Gomez is Managing Senior Policy Counsel in the Litigation and Law Department at Planned Parenthood Federation of America. In this role, Madeline advises clients and coalition partners in all fifty states on matters related to state and local legislative and regulatory policy and strategy. Her team works to maintain and expand access to abortion, contraception, gender affirming care, and other sexual and reproductive health care services. Madeline’s portfolio includes, among other things, abortion access, maternal health, sex ed, fertility services, pregnancy criminalization, and ballot work. Prior to joining PPFA, Madeline was an associate at a national plaintiff-side law firm, a litigation fellow at the Center for Reproductive Rights, and an If/When/How federal policy fellow at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. She also clerked for the Honorable Martha Craig Daughtrey on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Madeline currently serves on the board of SisterSong: Women of Color Collective, the preeminent reproductive justice organization in the United States, and recently concluded her term as board president for Tamizdat Artist Services, a Brooklyn-based organization that advocates for international artist mobility and cultural exchange. Madeline earned her B.A. from New York University and her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she is a member of the practitioner advisory board for the Berger Public Interest / Public Service Fellows Program and a Lecturer in Law in the legal writing program.

Glenna MacGregor

Residency Dates: Wednesday, October 29 – Friday, October 31, 2025

Glenna MacGregor is a seasoned attorney with experience in international criminal law (ICL), international humanitarian law (IHL), and U.S. immigration law. She currently serves as President/CEO of Keesler Immigration Law, where she represents applicants seeking lawful immigration status in the United States. She also serves as a regular monitor for the Ukraine Monitoring Initiative, a project out of the Office for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and on other ICL/IHL projects. From 2018-2022, she was chair of the ABA’s ICL Practice Project.

Previously, Glenna worked as a prosecutor in The Hague at the Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor’s Office and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, where she investigated and prosecuted war crimes and crimes against humanity. She also served as a Senior Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice and as a trial attorney with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Glenna graduated from GULC in 2005 and started her career with a pro bono fellowship with Howrey, LLP.

Omar Noureldin

Residency Dates: Wednesday, November 5 – Friday, November 7

Omar H. Noureldin is a public interest lawyer, nonprofit executive, law professor, and media commentator. He serves as Senior Vice President of Policy and Litigation at Common Cause, a leading national democracy organization. In this role, he oversees national efforts to strengthen political systems through policy reform, legislative advocacy, and litigation, working to ensure that our democracy is responsive, resilient, and representative. Most recently, he served as a presidential appointee in the Biden-Harris administration as Senior Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice. Earlier in his career, Omar practiced complex commercial, constitutional, and civil rights litigation at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles. At the same time, he was a lecturer in law at USC Gould School of Law, teaching courses on constitutional law, theory, and litigation. He has also been a regular contributor of legal and policy analysis on national TV news. Driven to strengthen American democracy and advance equal opportunity, Omar is also a democracy fellow at the University of Chicago’s Center for Effective Government. He previously served as vice president and general counsel of a national Muslim civil rights nonprofit and as a leadership fellow with Equality California, where he advocated for marginalized communities. His advisory roles on the Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden presidential campaigns reflect his ongoing commitment to civic and political engagement. In recognition of his leadership and impact, Omar was named one of the “Best Lawyers Under 40” by the National LGBTQ Bar Association in 2025 and received the American Bar Association’s “On the Rise: Top Lawyers Under 40” Award in 2021. After earning his J.D. from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Omar clerked for judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. A first-generation professional, he also holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.

Karla Gilbride

Residency Dates: Wednesday, November 19 – Friday, November 21, 2025

Karla Gilbride has practiced civil rights law, with an emphasis on employment discrimination and access to justice, since graduating from Georgetown Law in 2007 and clerking for Judge Ronald Gould on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She first spent three years with Disability Rights Advocates in Berkeley, California seeking programmatic access for people with disabilities to municipal emergency plans and high-stakes standardized tests before working as an associate at Mehri & Skalet in Washington, D.C. where she focused on Title VII, Fair Housing Act, and wage and hour cases. During her nearly nine years at Public Justice, she handled a wide range of appellate cases involving class actions, forced arbitration, and Article III standing on behalf of workers and consumers, and secured a unanimous victory for workers in a case involving forced arbitration at the U.S. Supreme Court, Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., 596 U.S. 411 (2022). In 2023 she was appointed by President Biden and confirmed by the Senate as General Counsel at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where she led the agency’s litigation and amicus program on issues including the standard for an adverse employment action after the Supreme Court’s decision in Muldrow v. City of St. Louis, religious accommodations after the Supreme Court’s decision in Groff v. DeJoy, the potential liability of developers of algorithmic decisionmaking software under federal employment-discrimination laws, and standards for liability under the newly enacted Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. Since being removed from her position at the EEOC in January of 2025, Karla has been working as the deputy director of the Public Citizen Litigation Group, where she has focused on bringing Administrative Procedure Act and separation-of-powers claims challenging the dismantling of federal agencies.