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Pro Bono Awards 2024

Presented at the UCI Law Pro Bono & Student Life Awards Celebration (PDF) on April 18, 2024.

Student Awards

The following students were recognized for going above and beyond in terms of pro bono.

Most Pro Bono Hours

• Cumulative (Class of 2024): Alfred Hwang
• 3L: Alfred Hwang
• 2L: Claire Foster
• 1L: Paulina Farley-Kuzmina

Pro Bono Independent Spirit Award

• Annie Wang for launching the Police Misconduct Know Your Rights Clinic

Pro Bono Student Leadership Award

• Nic Guo: Children of Incarcerated Caregivers
• Alicia Burrell: Domestic Violence Declarations
• Kate Peters, Kaiya Daniels, Annie Wang: Clean Slate Expungement Clinic
• Victor Avila, Criag Guzman: Permanency Project
• Annie Wang, Rachel Castillo, Sully Bautista: Police Misconduct Clinic
• Candice Gwak, Brenda Rosas, Romina Zarbaf, Carolina Garcia, Leili Golian: Saturday Academy of Law
• Adelaida Brown, Grace Palcic, Rachel Castillo: SSI Clinic
• Benjamin Hung, Ambria Dean, Claire Foster, Esther Esho: Street Law
• Karen Kartun, Shannon Eagen: Transforming Justice OC--Incarcerated Individual Letter Writing Project
• Jared Gheen, Jean Selep, Drew Navarre, Marlee Grant, Ashley Miller: Transgender Legal Assistance Clinic
• Gabriel Kirsch, Christian Valenzuela Cabral, Leslie Ozuna: Tijuana Border Rights Protection Project

Graduation Awards

• Pro Bono High Honors (200 hours over 3 years): Adelaida Brown, Adriana Perera, Alfred Hwang, Annie Wang, Brenda Rosas, Emma Steiner, Fernando Acevedo, Grace Palcic, Haley Trudell, Isabella Guerrero, Jacob Greenstein, Jared S. Gheen, Jim Henshaw, Kanomé Jones, Karen Kartun, Madelyn DeLucca, Maxamilian Maravilla, Millie Gonzalez, Sayid Bnefsi, Shaady Alavi-Moghaddam, Soemi Photavath, True Shields-Le
  
• Pro Bono Honors (120 hours over 3 years or 100 Hours for LL.M.'s): Adrienne Pham, Ali Jamwal, Alicia Burrell, Alliyah Thomas, Anthony Birong, Anthony Pimentel, Benjamin Hung, Ce-Lai Fong, Chazz Estelle, Claire Katz, Esther Jeon, James Tsang, Jean Selep, Johanna Crawford, Joyce Chang, Kangdi Cheng, Kate Peters, Lucrece Borrego, MacKayla Class, Michael Vine, Nic Guo, Nicholas Thiele, Omar Rizk, Qinzhe "Victoria" Jin, Samantha An, Sawyer Labbe, T.J. Mertikas, Talha Muhammad, Victor Giovanni Avila Ahumada

Pro Bono 50 & 100 (Hour) Awards: These students far exceeded the recommended number of annual pro bono hours during the 2023-2024 academic year.

• 100 Hour Award (3L & LLM): Adriana Perera, Adrienne Pham, Alfred Hwang, Alicia Burrell, Annie Wang, Brenda Rosas, Claire Katz, Emma Steiner, Isabella Guerrero, Jared S. Gheen, Johanna Crawford, Kanomé Jones, Karen Kartun, Millie Gonzalez, Soemi Photavath, Victor Giovanni Avila Ahumada
• 100 Hour Award (2L): Angi Phillips, Claire Foster, Devin Ton, Donald R. Owens Jr., Edith Guadalupe Garcia, Griffin Goldberg, Isabella Palermo, Katrina Carney, Makayla Woods, Michael Coury, Rachel Castillo, Sarah Salame, Sully Bautista, Vanessa Vasquez, Vito Nguyen
• 50 Hour Award (1L): Alina Aguirre, Alison Vela, Annie Hong, Ariana Keshishian, Cassidy V. Hunt, Catherine Hilgen, Connor Lennard, Daniel L. Ginsberg, Daniel Warren, Gabrielle Moore, Gavin Repman, Hatchly Galindo Moreno, Jake Hernandez, Jake Melton, John Mady, Jose Edgardo Lopez, Joseph Molinari II, Josuha Valenzuela, Lindsay Waters, Logan Jurnak, Marlee Grant, Morgan Lily Chall, Nicholas James O'Rilley, Olivia Mazzucato, Paulina Farley-Kuzmina, Ryan Q. Balaoing, Sarah Salama, Sauntharya Manikandan, Serapia Kim, Shannon Cheung, Skylar Reed, Stanley Shaw, Sydney Custer, Victor Bao

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 2023–2024 academic year.