Six OU Law students have been awarded the prestigious Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship. Each will receive $6,000 for summer public interest work in underserved communities across the country.
Established by Justice Stevens’ former law clerks, the John Paul Stevens Foundation promotes public interest and social justice values in tomorrow’s lawyers by funding summer public interest fellowships at law schools nationwide.
This summer, the foundation doubled the number of fellowships at OU Law from 3 to 6 as part of a historic expansion of the number of Stevens Fellows to 158 at 38 law schools.
The Stevens Fellows from OU Law will be working for the following nonprofit organizations and governmental agencies:
- Ryan Caporale: Boulder County, Colorado, District Attorney’s Office
- Mikayla Croslin: US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma
- Jensen Link: Oklahoma Indian Legal Services
- Alista Richardson: Judge Anthony Bonner, Oklahoma County District Court
- Morgan Roland: Mobile County, Alabama, Public Defender’s Office
- Chloe Stephens: United States Department of Justice, Office of Tribal Justice
This year’s recipients join over 150 Justice Stevens Fellows from 38 universities, one of the largest cohorts in the Foundation's history. They also join a network of over 1,000 alumni fellows.
To learn more about the Stevens Fellows and the John Paul Stevens Foundation, please click the link here.