Pro Bono Awards 2017
Presented at the UCI Law Pro Bono & Student Life Awards Celebration on April 17, 2017.
Community Awards
These awards honor the pro bono supervisors and supporters, without whom the students could not do pro bono work.
- Pro Bono Partnership Award: Lori Gauthier (Paralegal, Lobel Weiland Goldman Friendman LLP) and Kerri Lyman (attorney, Irell & Manella LLP) for the Bankruptcy Applications Project
- Community Partner Award: Dannie Cesena (Trans* Service Coordinator, LGBT Center OC) for the Transgender Legal Services Project (formerly Transgender Name an Gender Marker Change Clinic)
Student Awards
The following students were recognized for going above and beyond in terms of pro bono.
- Pro Bono Independent Spirit Award
- Stephen Suk and Raymond Cho for the UCI Med/Law Collaboration
- Most Pro Bono Hours
- Cumulative (Class of 2017): Divya Prabhakar
- 3L: Jennifer Kim
- 2L: Abigail Formella
- 1L: Joyce Yu and Nick Borkowski
- Pro Bono Student Leadership Award
- Claire Lucas and Vanessa Gomez—CARES
- Matt Jacinto—Domestic Violence Declarations
- Tiffany Yim and Jonathan Santiago—Elder Abuse Restraining Orders
- Jiaxiao Zhang, Amanda Cordova and Star Leal—Education Rights Project
- Rochelle Rotea and Andrea Levenson—Clean Slate Expungement Clinic
- Stephen Suk and Raymond Cho—UCI Med/Law Collaboration
- Rebecca Garcia—Immigration Assistance for Undocumented Anteaters
- Ali Chabot—Innocence Project Collaboration
- Alex McIntosh and Rochelle Rotea—International Refugee Assistance Project
- Daniel Silverman, Simarpreet Ahluawlia, Priscilla Gutierrez, Ivette Aragon, and David Penner—Saturday Academy of Law
- Tryphena Liu and Sarah Dawley—Disabled & Elderly Benefits Clinic
- Andrenna Berggren, Sean Lobb, Vanessa Gomez, Dustin Nirschl and Chris Valentino—Street Law
- Helen Boyer and Zackory Burns—Transgender Legal Assistance Clinic
- Andrew Morrill—VA Benefits Project
- Erica Row and Chris Smallwood—Worker Education & Wage Theft Clinic
- Judith Ramos—Federal Public Defender
- Brittany Ngo—NAACP Legal Defense Fund SCOTUS Nominee Research
- Graduation Awards
- Pro Bono High Honors (200 hours): Alexandra Achamallah; Andani Alcantara Diaz; Shireen Ashtari; Nora Cassidy; Alison Chabot; Karisa Chapa; Robin Gray; Justin Hanassab; Jason Hartlage; Julia Hartle; Janet Hsu; Jennifer Kim; Amy Lieberman; Justin Martin; Alexandra McIntosh; Evan Ponec; Divya Prabhakar; R.J. Szuba; Olivia Weber; Jiaxiao Zhang; Enid Zhou
- Pro Bono Honors (120 hours): Jenaun Aboud; Sara Banco; Andrenna Berggren; Mariam Bicknell; Crystal Caldera; Joy Chen; Sabrina Cohn; Chrisdo Fan; Christine Fan; Eric Fanchiang; Andrew Farestveit; Jonathan Healy; Samuel Hyams; Anjana Joshi; Laura Lively; Andrew Morrill; Brittany Ngo; Chance Pardon; Erica Row; Sophia Shin; Remick Stahl; A.J. Talt; Meigan Thompson; Honieh Udenka; Alexander Zeng
- Pro Bono 50 & 100 (Hour) Awards: These students far exceeded the recommended number of annual pro bono hours during the 2016–2017 academic year.
- 100 Hour Award (3L): Alison Chabot; Andre Farestveit; Robin Gray; Justin Hanassab; Janet Hsu; Jennifer Kim; Amy Lieberman; Olivia Weber
- 100 Hour Award (2L): Helen Boyer; Megan Brownlee; Raymond Cho; Amanda Cordova; Lauren Ellis; Abigail Formella; Vanessa Gomez; Emma Gunderson; The-An Hoang-Nguyen; Star Leal; Andrea Levenson; Mariah Lindsay; Emma McBurney; Danielle Nygren; Judith Ramos; Rochelle Rotea; Stephen Suk; Matthew Takemura; Tremayne Wilson
- 50 Hour Award (1L): Samantha Abraham; Nicolas Borkowski; Marcel Budiono; Li Chia Li; Cristen Fletcher; Daniel Ganz; Carey Hughes; Julia Jones; Traci Kim; Kristen Nash; Fernando Nunez; Dylan Quigley; Isaac Ramsey; Sarah Raoof; Caitlin Rice; Emily Satifka; Paras Shah; Cameron Sheldon; Pacifico Soldati; Sophia Tarazi; Michael Walker; Lauren Wertheimer; Tim Yoo; Joyce Yu; and Amy Yu.
- Pro Bono Achievement Award Winners: The Pro Bono Achievement Awards recognize all students who met the recommended number of pro bono hours (50 hours for 2Ls and 3Ls; 20 hours for 1Ls) during the 2016–2017 academic year.
- Class of 2017: Jenaun Aboud; Alexandra Achamallah; Shireen Ashtari; Andrenna Berggren; Crystal Caldera; Nora Cassidy; Sabrina Cohn; Christine Fan; Jason Hartlage; Samuel Hyams; Laura Lively; Justin Martin; Brittany Ngo; Evan Ponec; Sophia Shin; Remick Stahl; R.J. Szuba; Meigan Thompson; Jiaxiao Zhang; Enid Zhou
- Class of 2018: Melissa Adams; Alina Ananian; Lindsay Anderson; Jacob Berezin; Sarah Boxer; Calvin Bryne; Zackory Burns; Benjamin Calleros; Soraya Dawley; Michael Hefty; Danielle Humphrey; Marwa Katbi; Loni Kaye; Kristi Lin; Hannah McMeans; Althea Omdahl; Sam Park; Maria Peltekova; Jonathan Santiago; Daniel Webber; Christine Wendel; Julia Wu; Tiffany Yim
- Class of 2019: Molly Anderson; Shaia Araghi; Jovan Ardy; Erika Bertelsen; Evan Buhler; Nicole Carbonel; Sue Chang; Cecilia Choy; Shane Djokovich; Olivia Durnell; Evan Franson; Julia Gaffney; Mona Goodarzi; Andrew Huang; John Keeney; Chhaya Kotwani; Steven Lee; Seth Lemings; Sarah Mikosz; Desiree Murray; Anne Osborn; Grace Park; Andrea Pinango; Peter Pyun; Katherine Rice; Cesar Santiago; Karen Shin; John Silverman; Jacob Stonich; Charlene Sun; Franklin Thomas; Jason Tkaczuk; Bianca Valencia; Sabrina van der Linden-Gonzales; Octavio Verlarde; Kaitlin Wetz; Victoria Wyatt