A postgraduate fellowship is one of the very few ways through which aspiring public interest students start their careers. Because fellowship applications have early fall deadlines and the application process is very time-consuming, the time to start exploring fellowships is right now!
POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS WORKSHOP
Thursday, March 31 | 5:15-6:15 pm | Room 3201, GGU
MEET THE PANELISTS
Ifetayo Belle
Ifetayo Belle is the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and works on LCCR’s Racial Justice docket. She is a member of the legal team for Williams v. City of Antioch, a federal civil rights class action suit challenging the Antioch Police Department’s harassment of African American families with Section 8 housing vouchers. Ifetayo also works on efforts to increase utilization of minority-owned businesses in government contracting. This includes representation of defendant intervenors, NAACP of San Diego and the Coalition for Economic Equity, in Associated General Contractors v. California Department of Transportation, defending the state’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise contracting program. During law school, Ifetayo interned at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for Judge Anne C. Williams and at Outten & Golden LLP, a plaintiff-side NYC employment firm where she worked in the Discrimination and Retaliation Practice Group. Ifetayo graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts.
Parisa Fatehi
Parisa Fatehi (Attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP) joined Public Advocates in 2009 after clerking for the Hon. Vanessa D. Gilmore of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Parisa’s work, which includes coalition building, policy advocacy, and administrative and legal action, uses California’s climate change reform policies to secure affordable housing near quality jobs and public transit for low-income communities. Parisa is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she served as student body president and received her B.A. in Plan II, J.D., and Masters in Public Affairs. Prior to graduate school, Parisa lived in Washington, D.C., where she worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on voluntary programs designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In law school, she served low-income clients in the Transnational Workers’ Rights Clinic and the Immigration Clinic, interned at the Texas Civil Rights Project and the National Employment Law Project, and was president of UT Law’s American Constitution Society. Parisa served on two municipal commissions, the City of Austin’s Commission on Immigrant Affairs and the Day Labor Community Advisory Committee.
Fabián Rentería
Fabián Rentería is the Equal Justice Society’s Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow. Fabián is an immigrant from México and the first person in his family to attend college and law school. He graduated from UCLA School of Law with specializations in Public Interest Law & Policy and Critical Race Studies. During law school, Fabián was the Editor-in-Chief of the Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review and he received numerous academic and public interest accolades in law school. Fabián is a former Judicial Extern for the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Law Clerk for Public Advocates, Inc.; and Research Assistant to UCLA School of Law Professor Gerald P. López. After law school, he worked a county-wide criminal justice committee and For People of Color, Inc. as their Director of Administration and Finance. Fabián attended UCLA and received his B.A.s in History and Chicana/o Studies with minors in Political Science and Education Studies. Fabián graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and completed the College Honors Program.
Ifetayo Belle is the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Fellow at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and works on LCCR’s Racial Justice docket. She is a member of the legal team for Williams v. City of Antioch, a federal civil rights class action suit challenging the Antioch Police Department’s harassment of African American families with Section 8 housing vouchers. Ifetayo also works on efforts to increase utilization of minority-owned businesses in government contracting. This includes representation of defendant intervenors, NAACP of San Diego and the Coalition for Economic Equity, in Associated General Contractors v. California Department of Transportation, defending the state’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise contracting program. During law school, Ifetayo interned at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit for Judge Anne C. Williams and at Outten & Golden LLP, a plaintiff-side NYC employment firm where she worked in the Discrimination and Retaliation Practice Group. Ifetayo graduated from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts.Parisa Fatehi
Parisa Fatehi (Attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow, sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP) joined Public Advocates in 2009 after clerking for the Hon. Vanessa D. Gilmore of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Parisa’s work, which includes coalition building, policy advocacy, and administrative and legal action, uses California’s climate change reform policies to secure affordable housing near quality jobs and public transit for low-income communities. Parisa is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she served as student body president and received her B.A. in Plan II, J.D., and Masters in Public Affairs. Prior to graduate school, Parisa lived in Washington, D.C., where she worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on voluntary programs designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In law school, she served low-income clients in the Transnational Workers’ Rights Clinic and the Immigration Clinic, interned at the Texas Civil Rights Project and the National Employment Law Project, and was president of UT Law’s American Constitution Society. Parisa served on two municipal commissions, the City of Austin’s Commission on Immigrant Affairs and the Day Labor Community Advisory Committee.Fabián Rentería
Fabián Rentería is the Equal Justice Society’s Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellow. Fabián is an immigrant from México and the first person in his family to attend college and law school. He graduated from UCLA School of Law with specializations in Public Interest Law & Policy and Critical Race Studies. During law school, Fabián was the Editor-in-Chief of the Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review and he received numerous academic and public interest accolades in law school. Fabián is a former Judicial Extern for the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; Law Clerk for Public Advocates, Inc.; and Research Assistant to UCLA School of Law Professor Gerald P. López. After law school, he worked a county-wide criminal justice committee and For People of Color, Inc. as their Director of Administration and Finance. Fabián attended UCLA and received his B.A.s in History and Chicana/o Studies with minors in Political Science and Education Studies. Fabián graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and completed the College Honors Program. 
