Wasserstein Public Interest Advising Fellows are Named

The 1996-1997 Wasserstein Public Interest Advising Fellows have been named by Law School Dean Robert Clark.

Each fellow spends one to several days at the School talking with students about his/her experiences in public interest law and counseling students about careers in the public interest sector. Fellows are attorneys who have achieved outstanding public interest accomplishments, have areas of expertise that are of great interest to students, and have demonstrated the interest and ability to mentor students.

Attorney visits are organized by the School's Office of Public Interest Advising, directed by Stacy DeBroff.

Dean Clark established the Wasserstein Public Interest Advising Fellows Program in 1990 to allow students to benefit from the advice of practicing public interest attorneys. The program was established in honor of Morris Wasserstein, a New York City businessman, by his family through a $500,000 endowment gift.

Wasserstein Fellows

Dennis Aftergut, Chief Assistant City Attorney, San Francisco. Aftergut's (HLS Class of '77) experience includes work as an assistant U.S. attorney, Criminal Division, in San Francisco, as a clerk with California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird, and as a litigation associate at Farella, Braun & Martel in San Francisco. He is currently establishing a foundation to provide educational opportunities for women.

Jonathan Asher, executive director, Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Denver. Asher's (Class of '71) experience includes work as the director of Program Litigation and Services for Colorado Rural Legal Services and as the executive director of the Colorado Coalition of Legal Services. A former vice president of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, Asher is active on many national and statewide public interest law boards, including the National Institute of Dispute Resolution, the Colorado Supreme Court Judicial Council, and the Harvard Law School Association Committee on Public Interest Law.

Arthur Bryant, executive director, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Washington, D.C. Bryant (Class of '79) directs a nonprofit organization that litigates public interest cases, among them, class actions, products liability, and personal injury cases. He previously was associated with Kohn, Savett, Marion & Graf in Philadelphia and clerked with Judge Gabrielle K. McDonald of the U.S. District Court in Texas.

Barbara Stergis Hammerle, senior litigation counsel, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Washington, D.C. Hammerle (Class of '75) specializes in international economic sanctions. In a typical year, she drafts Executive Orders for the President, coordinates State Department policy issues, and advises Congressional committees. She has previously served as counsel to the assistant to the secretary for national security, as an assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles, as deputy assistant director of the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, and as a federal antitrust litigator for Bergson, Borkland, Margolis & Adler.

Leslie Harris, former director of public policy, People for the American Way, Washington, D.C. Harris serves as a consultant to several national public interest organizations. Her experience includes serving as the chief legislative counsel at the Washington Office of the American Civil Liberties Union and executive director of the ACLU of the National Capitol Area.

Todd Howland, field officer, United Nations Human Rights Centre, Kigali, Rwanda. Howland has been a consulting attorney to the Humanitarian Law Project in Los Angeles, Humanos Centro Internacional Para Litigios Sobre Derechos in Mexico, and the Inter-American Commission in El Salvador. He has also served in the Office of the Special Prosecutor, Transitional Government of Ethiopia, through the Carter Center for Human Rights. For seven years Howland worked as the legal adviser to the Thunderbird Alliance & Circle of Friends and the Native American Prisoner Network. For six years he served as the directing attorney of Legal Services, El Rescate, working on behalf of refugees in Los Angeles.

Edmund Ludwig, judge, U.S. District Court of Eastern Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Judge Ludwig (Class of '52) chairs the Juvenile Justice Alliance, a clearinghouse for juvenile justice issues in Philadelphia, and heads New Directions for Women, a halfway house alternative to prison for female offenders in the Delaware Valley. He has served as co-chair of the Harvard Summer Public Interest Fellowship of the HLS Philadelphia Alumni Association and recently helped create the new post-graduate Independence Public Interest Fellowships. His prior experience includes service as director and founder of Today Inc., a residential drug treatment program, and as a member of the Prisoner Civil Rights Panel and the Plaintiff's Employment Panel.

Victor Olds, assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York, New York City. Olds has served as assistant attorney general in charge of the Harlem Regional Office for the State of New York, assistant director of the Volunteer Division of the Legal Aid Society of New York, and at the U.S. Legal Services Corporation as a Reginald Heber Smith Community Lawyer Fellow.

Wasserstein-in-Residence Fellows

Elisabeth Medvedow, Massachusetts assistant attorney general, Criminal Bureau. Prior to her career in state government, Medvedow clerked for Judge John McNaught of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts and Judge Raya Dreben of the Massachusetts Court of Appeals.

James Nuzzo, National Legal Center for the Public Interest, adjunct scholar, Boston, The Colchester Group, Managing Partner. Nuzzo (Class of '94), a former Republican domestic policy adviser in the White House and currently a consultant to national libertarian and conservative public policy groups, has been specially selected to counsel the growing number of students interested in conservative public interest lawyering. Nuzzo has produced segments of ABC's Nightline, is a political analyst for New England Cable News, and advises Republican Party members on their campaigns. His experience includes serving as special assistant/consultant to the Office of the Administrator-International Activities, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and, as a White House Fellow, serving as deputy director of policy in the Office of Vice President Bush. A graduate of Georgetown Medical School, Nuzzo was chief resident in neurology at Brigham & Women's Hospital.

Carolyn Stafford Stein, former assistant U.S. attorney, United States Attorney's Office, Boston. In the U.S. Attorney's Office, Stein (Class of '85) worked in the Public Corruption and Special Crimes Unit and the Economic Crimes Unit, and also served as director of the Student Intern Program. Stein served for a year as special counsel to the U.S. assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division. She has also served as an associate with firms in San Francisco and Boston.

Daniel Winograd, senior assistant regional counsel, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Boston. At the EPA Winograd serves as a mentor for summer law interns. He is also a mediation trainer and coach at the West Roxbury District Court. He previously was an associate at the Boston firm of Nutter, McClennen & Fish.