Pro Bono Awards 2020
Presented at the UCI Law Pro Bono & Student Life Awards Celebration on May 14, 2020.
Student Awards
The following students were recognized for going above and beyond in terms of pro bono.
- Pro Bono Independent Spirit Award
- Kelsey Goldman for the Pet Protection Project; Anne Nicholson for three projects and one Spring Break trip to serve Native Americans in Montana
- Most Pro Bono Hours
- Cumulative (Class of 2020): Emily Genzlinger
- 3L: Emily Genzlinger
- 2L: Curtis Franklin
- 1L: Diana Hoag
- Pro Bono Student Leadership Award
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- Emily Croucher – Camp Pendleton
- Rosie Statman, Christopher Lawrence – CARES
- Nicole Kennedy – Christian Legal Aid
- Carson Capps – City Council Comments
- Travone Davis – Civil Gang Law Research
- Sarah Eller, Ally Myers – Court Watch
- Kari Ferver, Harrison Weimer – Disabled and Elderly Benefit (SSI)
- Anne Nicholson – Document Delivery Project
- Christa Millard – Domestic Violence Declarations
- Emily Genzlinger, Katie Rosoff, Emma Garcia – Education Rights Project
- Ksenia Gracheva – Elder Abuse Restraining Orders
- Alexis Weitzner, Melanie Chaewsky – Expungement Project – OC Clean Slate Clinic
- Katie Rosoff – Gun Safety Litigation & Legislation
- Michaela Posner, Jessica Santiago – Hospitality Worker UI Project
- Amanda Lapato – Innocence Project Collaboration
- Mackenzie Anderson, Alexandra Lewis – International Refugee Assistance Project
- Lya Ferreyra, Jonhatan Aragon – Permanency Project for Victims of Crime
- Kelsey Goldman – Pet Protection Project Los Angeles
- Sarah Eller – Sacramento Homelessness Litigation Research
- Grecia Rivas, Maryam Zomorodian, Joseph Shafik, Katie Rosoff, Matt Hallman, Jessica Santiago – Saturday Academy of Law
- Alexis Mondares, Alexis Weitzner – Street Law
- Emily Johanson, Laura Alvarenga Scalia, Lya Ferreyra, Amruta Trivedi, Sumouni Basu, - Tijuana Border Rights Protection Project
- Matthew Arnold, Avery Kunstler – Transgender Legal Assistance Clinic
- Graduation Awards
- Pro Bono High Honors (200 hours): Madelaine Ambrus, Mackenzie Anderson, Kimberly Barr, Cristina Butoiu, Paige Cavendish,Viridiana Chabolla Mendoza, Emily Croucher, Travone Davis, Pilar Escontrias, Emily Genzlinger, Ksenia Gracheva, Patrick Hulbert, Emily Johanson, Nicole Kennedy, Janista Lee, David Levine, Dana Lui, Quiyarra McCahey, Correy Miller, Alexis Mondares, Yingge Ning, Allyssa Scheyer, Raina Sharma, Pacifico Soldati, Andrick Zeen
- Pro Bono Honors (120 hours): Laura Alvarenga Scalia, Jonhatan Aragon, Nina Benjamin, Markie Betor, Dominique Brown, Jazlyn Cabula, Cole Clark, Suzanne Denbow, Francesca Egger, Jennifer Ledesma, Alexandra Lewis, Kyoolee Park, Grecia Rivas, Spencer Shure, Brian Sutter, Jason Tkaczuk, Dion Shin Toledo, Cayla Whitley, Maryam Zomorodian
- Pro Bono 50 & 100 (Hour) Awards: These students far exceeded the recommended number of annual pro bono hours during the 2019-2020 academic year.
- 100 Hour Award (3L): Laura Alvarenga Scalia, Paige Cavendish, Cole Clark, Emily Croucher, Travone Davis, Francesca Egger, Emily Genzlinger, David Levine, Dana Lui, Quiyarra McCahey, Alexis Mondares
- 100 Hour Award (2L): Hannah Bartlett, Evan Campbell, Melanie Chaewsky, Ricardo Corte, Sarah Eller, Kari Ferver, Curtis Franklin, Dylan Gera, Ethan Greene, Sarah Kahn, James Kim, Christopher Lawrence, Stephanie Lee, Lindsay Marum, Christa Millard, Sarah Mousa, Anne Nicholson, Kaitlin O’Donnell, Michaela Posner, Michelle Pujol, Katherine Raitz, Catherine Rosoff, Jenae Rusch, Yasmeen Sayyah, Akila Shenoy, Katherine Shuai, Emily Tsai, Alexis Weitzner, Amanda Zemel
- 50 Hour Award (1L): Amy L. Abshier, Cecilia Bermudez, Nadia Blant, Alexandra Cadena, Alice Doyle, Franceska Gonzalez, Madison Gunning, Margaret Hinson, Diana Hoag, Madeline Knutson, Amanda Le, Samuel Leff, Bianca Leichnitz, Mayra Lopez, Sydney Martin, Emily Phillips, Jessica Santiago, Andy Van Ligten, Jonathan Widjaja
- 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 2019–2020 academic year.
- Class of 2020: Mackenzie Anderson, Kimberly Barr, Markie Betor, Dominique Brown, Viridiana Chabolla Mendoza, Pilar M. Escontrias, Ksenia Gracheva, Patrick Hulbert, Emily Johanson, Nicole Kennedy, Morgan Kimmey, Jennifer Ledesma, Janista Lee, Yingge Ning, Kyoolee Park, Grecia Rivas, Allyssa Scheyer, Brian Sutter, Jason Tkaczuk, Dion Shin Toledo, Yaqi Xie, Andrick Zeen, Maryam Zomorodian
- Class of 2021: Fahad Ali, Sumouni Basu, Kayley Berger, Angelina Caplanis, Carson Capps, Melissa Colon, Pauline Duong, Kelsey Goldman, Anna Hales, Matthew Hallman, Scott Harris, Christopher Harvey, Carolyn Islam, Avery Kunstler, Robyn Lin, Wei Liu, Jordan L. Lowery, Anthony Mendez, Areen Mesrobian, Zeina Mousa, Erica Navarro, Michelle Nelson, Alexander Nguyen, Sophie Paeng, Robert Payaslyan, Morgan Peterson, Angela Shen, Tara Spencer, Christopher Steinke, Martin Stillman, Harrison Weimer, Jordin Wilcher, Margaret Woodruff, Xinnan Wu
- Class of 2022: Gohar Abrahamyan, Ryan Aymard, Brianna Batson, Sara Benowitz, Sean Bloks, Victoria Cendejas, Maria Luiza Coelho Dos Santos, Samantha Costa, Sadaf Doost, Christian Durham, Isaac Filat, Allison Greenberg, Ariel Greenwood, Ann Huang, Clair Leonard, Esther Lim, Ashleigh Luschei, Theodore Malone, Emily McCorry, Shalev Netanel, Tatiana Nikolaeva, Michael Park, Tuyet Pham, Perla Ramos, Jose Rosales, Jonathan Routson, Eva Shen, Jasmine Smith, Hamaseh Sorooshian, Joshua Stein, Christopher Su, Jesse Trujillo, Constantine Tsoucalas, Sabrina Victor, Edgar Wang, Alexandra Watson-Tremellen, Richard Westmoreland, Colleen Wisel, Emily Yu, Yiwen Zhang