Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic

Madeline Meth

Third Year Fellow

Madeline Meth graduated from Georgetown Law in 2017 where she participated in the Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic’s inaugural semester.  Her focus is public-interest litigation, particularly anti-poverty work.  Before returning to ACIC as a fellow, she worked at AARP’s Legal Counsel for the Elderly, providing legal services to low-income seniors living in the District of Columbia; she also clerked for the Honorable George J. Hazel on the U.S. District Court in Maryland and for the Honorable Jane B. Stranch on the Sixth Circuit.  She reads a lot of fiction (find her on Goodreads!), enjoys city walks, crossword puzzles, and returning to New England to spend time with family.

 

Esthena Barlow

First Year Fellow

Esthena Barlow is originally from Middlebury, Vermont. She studied mathematics in college and worked as a data scientist for four years before attending Stanford Law School. Her favorite thing about Stanford was participating in a public interest clinic, and that experience motivated her to come to Georgetown as a fellow with ACIC. After graduating from Stanford in 2020, Esthena clerked for the Honorable David J. Barron of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the Honorable Jeffrey S. Sutton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She loves running and cross-country skiing, especially if she can bring her dog Moose along. If she has to be inside, she’d like to be trying out a new recipe or attending trivia night, preferably with geography questions.

 

Appellate Litigation Clinic

Tiffany Yang

Second Year Fellow

Tiffany Yang’s teaching interests include civil procedure, race and the law, civil rights, torts, and federal courts. Her research examines how procedural rules and judicial doctrines shape the substance of legal protections by impeding the civil claims of marginalized communities. Her work, which situates the law within broader histories of anti-racist organizing, often interrogates these inquiries through the lens of prisoners’ rights litigation. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Boston College Law Review, North Carolina Law Review, and Washington Law Review.

Tiffany is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where she received prizes for outstanding performance in federal litigation, legal research and writing, clinical practice, clinical coursework, immigration law, and property. She joins the Appellate Litigation Clinic as a teaching fellow following two federal judicial clerkships, a Skadden fellowship, and experiences litigating civil rights impact litigation and appeals.

 

Sam Mancina 

First Year Fellow

Salvatore (Sam) Mancina is a supervising attorney and clinical teaching fellow in the Appellate Litigation Clinic. He graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 2018, where he participated in the Appellate Litigation Clinic and served as an Articles Editor for the Michigan Law Review. Prior to joining Georgetown Law as a fellow, he clerked for the Honorable Robin S. Rosenbaum of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. He also worked as an associate attorney for a law firm in Washington, D.C.

Center for Applied Legal Studies (CALS)

Jocelyn B. Cazares

Second Year Fellow

Before joining the CALS team at Georgetown, Jocelyn was a Senior Attorney at the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition (CAIR). At CAIR, Jocelyn mentored, taught, and supported a wide range of legal advocates and pro se litigants in various immigration matters, including asylum, withholding of removal, protection under the Convention against Torture, Cancellation of Removal, adjustment of status, U and T visas, bond, motions to reopen, and appeals. As part of the Legal Orientation Program, Jocelyn managed stakeholder relationships at Caroline County Detention Facility, Howard County Detention Center, and Worcester County Detention Center to ensure access to meaningful legal services to detained individuals, including providing key information and assistance to pro se individuals through group and individual orientations to help them navigate the immigration court system. Jocelyn also led the Caroline County Anonymous Grant which provided legal representation to individuals detained at the Caroline County Detention Facility. As part of the grant Jocelyn represented numerous individuals in a wide array of defensive applications for relief in their removal proceedings and release from detention facility, including one of the first successful challenges to the application of the Third Country Transit Ban for an individual who was subject to the ban due to the contested metering practice at the US-Mexico Border.

Prior to her work at CAIR, Jocelyn represented a wide array of individuals in both affirmative and defensive applications, including individuals impacted by the family separation policy, individuals deemed “mentally incompetent” by the immigration court in removal proceedings as part of the National Qualified Representation Program, and unaccompanied children through her work with Esperanza Immigrants’ Right Project and Public Counsel. She also spent extensive time working at various indigent defense offices, including the Los Angeles County Public Defender Office, Harlem Neighborhood Defender Service, and Bronx Defenders. Jocelyn received her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a 2016 and 2017 Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and awarded the Lowenstein Fellowship due to her extraordinary commitment to social justice and human rights. She received her B.A. in Anthropology with a minor in English from the University of California, Berkeley. Jocelyn is a native Spanish speaker.

 

Iman Saad

First Year Fellow

Before joining the CALS team, Iman was the Practitioner in Residence for the Immigrants’ Rights and International Human Rights Clinic at the Center for Social Justice at Seton Hall Law School in Newark, New Jersey. Iman led a newly launched detention project as part of a state-funded Detention and Deportation Defense Initiative, which provides pro bono legal services to New Jersey immigrants facing deportation. As part of this program, Iman represented numerous individuals in their removal proceedings in a variety of immigration matters, including asylum, withholding of removal, relief under the Convention Against Torture, cancellation of removal applications, bond motions, motions to reopen, motions to terminate, and appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals. Iman also mentored, trained and supervised law students, pro bono volunteers, fellows, and staff attorneys in removal defense.

Prior to joining the Center for Social Justice, Iman was selected for the Department of Justice Honors Program to serve as a Judicial Law Clerk and later, an Attorney Advisor with the Newark Immigration Court. Iman received her J.D. from Seton Hall Law School, where she graduated cum laude and was a Center for Social Justice Scholar. During law school, Iman served as a legal intern with American Friends Service Committee in Newark, New Jersey, assisting attorneys in representing immigrants before the Newark and Elizabeth Immigration Courts, and as an Executive Office intern with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Beirut, Lebanon. Iman received her B.A. in Political Science and Journalism from the College of New Jersey. Iman speaks Arabic.

Civil Litigation Clinic

John Giammatteo

Second Year Fellow

John joins the Civil Litigation Clinic from Lutheran Social Services of New York’s Immigration Legal Program. At LSSNY-ILP, John represented noncitizens in removal proceedings and in federal court, and he launched the Second Circuit Asylum Monitoring Project to track pending asylum appeals at the Circuit. Prior to working at LSSNY-ILP, he clerked for the Honorable Victor A. Bolden of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and for the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

John is a 2017 graduate of Yale Law School, where he participated in the Veterans Legal Services Clinic and the International Refugee Assistance Project. He received his bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University in 2011, and master’s degrees from City University and SOAS in London, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

Civil Rights Clinic

Marissa Hatton

Third Year Fellow

Marissa Hatton is a supervising attorney and clinical teaching fellow in the Civil Rights Clinic.  Before joining the Clinic, Marissa was a staff attorney at Equal Justice Under Law, where she litigated class action impact cases challenging poverty discrimination, government abuse of civil punishment (including child support enforcement practices and discriminatory housing codes), exploitative private probation companies, and other criminal system reform issues across the country. Marissa’s litigation helped to end the Driver Responsibility Program in Texas, which overwhelmingly targeted impoverished communities, and her work helped to end Pennsylvania’s practice of suspending driver’s licenses as a collateral consequence of drug convictions, which targeted communities of color through stop-and-frisk policies — resulting in over one million individuals becoming eligible to reinstate their driver’s licenses.  Marissa’s team won one of the largest federal class action cases challenging money bail in the United States, which enjoined San Francisco’s bail practices and declared the County’s money bail system unconstitutional.

Marissa received her B.A. from the University of California at Santa Barbara and her J.D. from Georgetown Law, where she founded and served as co-president of the Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) and was awarded the Dean’s Certificate for Outstanding Service to the law school community.  She is barred in the District of Columbia and the Chickasaw Nation.

 

Lucia Goin

Second Year Fellow

Lucia Goin is a supervising attorney and clinical teaching fellow in the Civil Rights Clinic. Prior to joining Georgetown Law, Lucia clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Paez for the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and was a fellow at a plaintiffs’ class-action firm.

Lucia received her B.A. and M.A. from the University of California, San Diego, and Columbia University, respectively. She received her J.D., with Honors, from The University of Chicago Law School. She is barred in California and the District of Columbia.

 

Genevieve Mesch

First Year Fellow

Genevieve Mesch is a supervising attorney and clinical teaching fellow in the Civil Rights Clinic. Before joining the Clinic, Genevieve was an associate at Selendy Gay Elsberg PLLC, where she focused on plaintiffs’ side litigation related to deceptive financial practices, affordable housing, and healthcare access. Subsequently, Genevieve clerked for the Honorable Fern Flanagan Saddler and the Honorable Darlene M. Soltys at the District of Columbia Superior Court. In her free time, Genevieve enjoys hiking in Shenandoah National Park and reading fiction.

Genevieve received her B.A. from the University of Colorado at Boulder and her J.D. with honors from Georgetown Law. While a student at Georgetown, she participated in the Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic where she litigated federal appeals challenging discriminatory employment practices under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act

Communications and Technology Law Clinic

 

Frankie Hedgepeth

First Year E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow

Frankie grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. He received a B.A. in Africana studies and political science from the University of Miami in 2019, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2022. During his time in law school, Frankie worked as a student attorney in the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic and served as the Political Action Chair of the Black Law Students Association. He spent his law school summers at the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and the Bronx Defenders.

 

Nicole Joseph

First Year Fellow

Lindsay Bailey

First Year Fellow

Lindsay Bailey is a teaching fellow and supervisory attorney at Georgetown’s Environmental Law & Justice Clinic. Lindsay supervises students working on environmental issues and co-teaches a seminar on environmental law and justice. Her research interests center around legal tools for holding corporations and governments accountable for human rights violations.

Lindsay was previously a Legal Fellow at EarthRights International and the Center for Justice and Accountability and a student litigator in the Harvard International Human Rights Clinic, where she litigated cases against corporations and governments, including claims for human rights abuses against the former Presidents of Bolivia and Sri Lanka, a class action against a banana company for funding Colombian paramilitaries, a tort case against the IFC for financing a toxic power plant, and TVPA cases arising out of Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Liberia, Haiti, and Argentina.

Lindsay holds a JD cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she received the David Grossman Exemplary Clinic Team award and a Dean’s Award for Community Leadership. Prior to law school, Lindsay spent three years working in international development in Ghana.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kelsey Robinson

First Year E. Barrett Prettyman Fellow

Kelsey Robinson is the first year fellow in the Juvenile Justice Clinic. She graduated with honors from Loyola University Maryland in 2017 with a major in Psychology and a minor in Forensic Studies. In 2020, Kelsey graduated with her Master of Social Work from the University of Maryland School of Social Work and in 2021, she graduated, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. For her involvement in public service during law school, Kelsey was awarded the William P. Cunningham Award. At Maryland Law, Kelsey was a student attorney in the Criminal Defense Clinic, a Notes and Comments Editor on the Maryland Law Review, and co-president of the Criminal Law Association. Kelsey spent her law school summers at the Maryland Office of the Public Defender, the Office of the Colorado State Public Defender, and Defender Impact Initiative. She also interned at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the District of Maryland and practiced as a social worker in the Youthful Defendant Unit and Juvenile Litigation divisions of the Maryland Office of the Public Defender. Her scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the Maryland Law Review Online and Cardozo Law Review. Prior to joining Georgetown, Kelsey clerked for the Honorable Douglas R.M. Nazarian on the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Alina Tulloch

Racial Justice and Youth Defense Fellow

Alina Tulloch received her J.D. from New York University School of Law (NYU) where she was active in the Black Allied Law Students Association, Public Interest Law Students Association, and the Review of Law and Social Change. She participated in clinics that allowed her to work alongside attorneys from the NAACP LDF and the ACLU. In 2020, Alina was named a Paul-Weiss fellow with NYU’s Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law. She spent her summers at the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights and the Texas Civil Rights Project.

Originally from South Florida, Alina served in various roles at Broward College prior to law school. She also worked at the University of Miami with a group of psychologists committed to delivering evidence-based, culturally-informed therapy to minority youth and their families. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a major in Psychology and a minor in Hispanic Studies.

Social Enterprise and Nonprofit Clinic