Pro Bono Awards 2018
Presented at the UCI Law Pro Bono & Student Life Awards Celebration on April 12, 2018.
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: Amanda Selogie and Vickie Brett of Selogie & Brett, LLP, who serve as the supervising attorneys for the Education Rights Project.
Student Awards
The following students were recognized for going above and beyond in terms of pro bono.
- Pro Bono Independent Spirit Award
- Amanda Cordova and Star Leal, for the Education Rights Project
- Most Pro Bono Hours
- Cumulative (Class of 2018): Danielle Nygren
- 3L: Danielle Nygren
- 2L: Samantha Abraham
- 1L: Emily Genzlinger and Patrick Hulbert
- Pro Bono Student Leadership Award
- Claire Lucas and Star Leal—CARES
- Emma McBurney—Camp Pendleton Legal Assistance Office
- Erika Bertelsen—Domestic Violence Declarations
- Amanda Cordova, Ryan Camastra, Desiree Murray and Emily Genzlinger—Education Rights Project
- Tiffany Yim—Elder Abuse Restraining Orders
- Molly Anderson, Sue Chang, Courtney Wang, Allyssa Scheyer, and Janista Lee—Clean Slate Expungement Clinic
- Stephen Suk and Raymond Cho—UCI Med/Law Collaboration
- Rebecca Garcia—Immigration Assistance for Undocumented Anteaters
- Mona Goodarzi—Innocence Project Collaboration
- Abigail Formella and Rochelle Rotea—International Refugee Assistance Project
- Fernando Nunez—Permanency Project
- Daniel Ganz, Sadaf Behdin, Ivette Aragon, and David Penner—Saturday Academy of Law
- Peter Pyun and Amy Yu—Disabled & Elderly Benefits Clinic
- Christopher Valentino and Desiree Murray—Street Law
- Caspian Nash, Zackory Burns, and Avery Kunstler—Transgender Legal Assistance Clinic
- Julia Wu—VA Benefits Project
- Graduation Awards
- Pro Bono High Honors (200 hours): Johnanthony Alaimo; Alina Ananian; Helen Boyer; Calvin Bryne; Raymond Cho; Amanda Cordova; Lauren Ellis; Abigail Formella; Vanessa Gomez; Michael Hefty; Marwa Katbi; Star Leal; Andrea Levenson; Kristi Lin; Mariah Linsday; Tryphena Liu; Emma McBurney; Hannah McMeans; Danielle Nygren; Althea Omdahl; Sam Park; Rochelle Rotea; Stephen Suk; Tremayne Wilson; Tiffany Yim
- Pro Bono Honors (120 hours): Melissa Adams; Lindsay Anderson; Ivette Aragon; Kevin Barnes; Jacob Berezin; Sarah Boxer; Megan Brownlee; Zackory Burns; Benjamin Calleros; Sarah Choi; Shirley Diaz; Emma Gunderson; The-An Hoang-Nguyen; Hannah Jeffrey; Loni Kaye; Aileen Kim; Karina Lo; Sean Lobb; Claire Lucas; Maria Peltekova; Stephanie Phan; Judith Ramos; Jonathan Santiago; Christine Schrottenbaum; Sonya Suchi Shaikh; Christopher Valentino; Paolo Veneracion; Julia Wu
- Pro Bono 50 & 100 (Hour) Awards: These students far exceeded the recommended number of annual pro bono hours during the 2017–2018 academic year.
- 100 Hour Award (3L): Johnanthony Alaimo; Calvin Bryne; Amanda Cordova; Marwa Katbi; Kristi Lin; Tryphena Liu; Claire Lucas; Danielle Nygren; Althea Omdahl; Stephanie Phan; Sonya Suchi Shaikh; Paolo Veneracion
- 100 Hour Award (2L): Samantha Abraham; Erika Bertelsen; Sue Chang; Cecilia Choy; Daniel Ganz; Carey Hughes; Desiree Murray; Kristen Nash; Sarah Raoof; Laila Rashid; Emily Satifka; Jaquesha Scott; Pacifico Soldati; Jacob Stonich; Tara Teegarden; Brandon White
- 50 Hour Award (1L): MacKenzie Anderson; Dominique Brown; Jazlyn Cabula; Paige Christie; Emily Genzlinger; Ksenia Gracheva; Patrick Hulbert; Emily Johanson; Summer Kirk-Johnson; Janista Lee; Quiyarra McCahey; Margaret McPike; Alexis Mondares; Thomas Moneymaker; Guillermo Navarro Galindo; Allyssa Scheyer; Courtney Wang; Andrick Zeen
- 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 2017–2018 academic year.
- Class of 2018: Alina Ananian; Lindsay Anderson; Ivette Aragon; Kevin Barnes; Helen Boyer; Raymond Cho; Sarah Choi; Shirley Diaz; Vanessa Gomez; Michael Hefty; Hannah Jeffrey; Aileen Kim; Star Leal; Mariah Lindsay; Karina Lo; Emma McBurney; Hannah McMeans; Sam Park; Maria Peltekova; Stephen Suk; Christopher Valentino; Tremayne Wilson; Julia Wu; Tiffany Yim
- Class of 2019: Peter Alter; Ryan Camastra; Zoe Danner; Julia Gaffney; Juan Garcia; Courtney Glazer-Mapfumo; Mona Goodarzi; Bryant Havlick; Chhaya Kotwani; Sarah Mikosz; Fernando Nunez; Pooja Pujara; Caitlin Rice; Cameron Sheldon; Christopher Smallwood; Denise Sorto-Solis; Sabrina van der Linden-Gonzales; Joyce Yu; Amy Yu
- Class of 2020: Nafisa Ahmed; Madelaine Ambrus; Jonhatan Aragon; Margarget Babad; Nicole Babaknia; Nina Benjamin; Markie Betor; Ariana Bushweller; Cristina Butoiu; Mariam Carr; Paige Cavendish; Viridiana Chabolla; Julia Chang; Melissa Chen; Alexander Dashman; Travone Davis; Ashleigh Dennis; Dion Diederich; Pilar Escontrias; David Hazelton; Rachael Heller; Parth Jani; Nicole Kennedy; Lauren Kenney; Kristen Kido; Jonathan Kopecky; Avery Kunstler; Jennifer Ledesma; Alexandra Lewis; Rina Liles; Lauren Malindzak; Elderin Masangkay; Alicia Matarese; Olivia Meme; Tess Messiha; Correy Miller; Theodore Mumford; Lauren Navarro; Olivia Poss; Casey Powell; Lovlean Purewal; Grecia Rivas; Sarah Salvini; Raina Sharma; Vincent Shepherd; Lucy Stanley; Brian Sutter; Delia Tasky; Amy Thompson; Tina Tsaur; Adelina Tungate; Cayla Whitley; Daniel Xo; Jieyu Zhang