Susan Quaid Anderson

Susie Anderson graduated with a degree in Political Science and Spanish from the University of the South (Sewanee), a small university located at the top of the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee. After college, she worked as a Tonya Scholar for the Southern Center for International Studies in Atlanta. Susie then worked as a Land Use Specialist for Gearon/Western Wireless. This job introduced her to local governmental and zoning laws. Susie is attending Mississippi College School of law. Her experience as a Court Appointed Advocate and as a Counsel in Rankin County Youth Court has provided her with the opportunity to make a positive contribution to the community of Jackson, Mississippi. She will work this summer at the Office of the Attorney General in Jackson.

Janet A. Bradley

Janet did her undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan. She graduated in 1995 with a double major in Psychology and French, with a focus on Developmental Psychology. Some of the very best experiences in her life have come from her interactions with children. She can't imagine herself in any career in which she could not make them her focus. The Child Advocacy Law Clinic was the main thing that drew her to the University of Michigan Law School, where she is currently a student. She will spend this summer working in the Clinic. She is very eager to devote her time and energy to the issue of children's advocacy.

Michael Chu

A first-year student at Stanford Law School, Michael Chu hopes to become involved with the branch of public service that crafts, analyzes, and reforms policy related to education and other forms of child welfare. In 1996, he earned a BA in mathematics and a BSE in industrial engineering at Arizona State University, where he wrote his honors thesis on a preschool program he developed and implemented in Guadalupe, Arizona. Last year, he graduated from the University of York (England) with a MA in social policy. His graduate dissertation focused on improving the coordination of services for children under eight. He also led the Partnerships for Youth project in London, which examined similar issues related to service provisions for older children. He will spend the summer working at the Education Law Center in Philadelphia.

Jacquelyn B. Davis

Jacquelyn Davis is a native of Port Arthur, Texas. She attended Brown University where she concentrated in Public Policy and was awarded the Taubman and Licht Scholarships. She took leave from Brown to work as an assistant to George Stephanopoulos on the Clinton-Gore 1992 campaign and spent a semester at Howard University. Jacquelyn has served as a Domestic Policy legislative aid to Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chief of Staff to Congressman Nick Lampson (D-TX). She helped Congressman Lampson initiate the Missing and Exploited Children's Congressional Caucus and founded Hands on D.C.-a non-profit organization designed to refurbish the D.C. public schools and provide college scholarships to low-income students. She will work this summer at the New York Legal Aid Society, Juvenile Rights Division.

Sarah A. DeYoung

Sarah grew up as the child of missionary parents on an Indian reservation in Winnebago, Nebraska; she saw first-hand how children were treated by various social service agencies. During college, Sarah was actively involved in various activities centered around children-youth group, summer camp, etc. Upon graduation from Hope College in 1996, she moved to Washington, DC, where she worked for the American Council of the Blind doing advocacy work with a blind attorney. She also volunteered at For Love of Children (FLOC), working with children whose families were in transitional housing. Now at the University of Michigan Law School, she is excited to learn how to make the protection of children a full time job. Sarah will work this summer at the Children's Law Office in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Andrea C. dos Santos

Andrea moved with her family from Portugal to the United States in l967. She just completed her first year at the New England School of Law. Andrea graduated from Drew University. She will be interning at the Massachusetts Department of Social Services this summer. If she can't save the world, she'd at least like to save a child.

Jamie Hochman

Jamie Hochman is a social worker and a first year law student at Georgetown University pursuing a career in law and psychology. She has devoted her life's work to integrating these two disciplines to better meet the legal needs of children. As a social worker, she has provided long-term psychotherapy to children in foster care. She has also volunteered as a Court-Appointed Special Advocate in her community. For three years, she worked on two class action lawsuits against the State of Michigan pertaining to the State's failure to hospitalize children for long-term psychiatric care. At Georgetown, she has continued to promote the needs of children in the DC community by founding a student-run child advocacy group. This summer, she will be working at Family and Child Services and will continue her work for children in the fall at the Children's Law Center, both in Washington, DC.

Erin K. Lamb

Erin is a military brat, but claims Texas as her home, and is pretty sure that it claims her as well. She has wanted to be an attorney since she was six years old, and interested specifically in Children's law for about the past eight years. Erin plans to return to Texas to practice some form of children's law after graduation. She attended the University of Georgia for two years and graduated with a B.A. in English from the University of Texas in San Antonio in 1996. Her hobbies include reading (for pleasure when she has the time), singing (in the past professionally, but now just for fun), and hiking (some rock climbing but not since she left Colorado). Erin will work this summer at Richland County Department of Social Services in Columbia, South Carolina.

Cantrell M. Murray

Cantrell is a native of Charleston, South Carolina. She is the fifth of six children, and the aunt to twenty-one nieces and nephews-you see children are in her life! Cantrell taught English for five years in the public schools of Richland and Charleston Counties. Currently, she is a rising third-year law student at the University of South Carolina School of Law. She is dedicated to service and helping others, and has been very actively involved with community service activities. The two activities that she has enjoyed the most this school year are the Read-A-Book program at St. Lawrence Place (a homeless shelter), and the Mentor program at McCants Elementary School. Cantrell has found that doing something for someone else has made the hard times in law school a little more bearable. This summer Cantrell will work at Richland County Department of Social Services in Columbia, South Carolina.

Cristina W. Ritchie

Cristina Ritchie is a first year student at the University of Michigan Law School. She graduated from Princeton University in 1996 with a Bachelor's degree in English and a certificate in Women's Studies. After college, she was an investigator first for the D.C. Public Defender's Service and then for Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C., working on the firm's pro bono Child Welfare Initiative and criminal cases. This summer she will work with Legal Services for Children in San Francisco.

Stephanie L. Sills

Stephanie L. Sills is a rising third year student at Mississippi College School of Law. She received her undergraduate degree in history from Mississippi College in 1997. She has worked with Langston & Associates in Jackson, Mississippi, in the area of tobacco litigation from September of 1996 until January of 1998. While at Langston & Associates, she had the advantage of working on the case of Butler v. Phillip Morris, a case that aided in the publication of the Liggett Documents, which eventually fostered the national tobacco settlement with various state's attorney generals. Since January of 1998, Stephanie has clerked for the law firm of Kerley & Clark, which practices primarily in the area of personal injury. In addition, she currently serves as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for Hinds County, Mississippi. This summer she will work on child welfare cases with the Office of the Mississippi Attorney General.

Cristina M. Valadez

After completing her undergraduate studies at U.C. Berkeley, Cristina worked with two at-risk youth programs in Orange County, California. From both experiences, she derived a deep respect for at-risk children's resilience and ingenuity. Cristina continued her studies and narrowed her focus at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. While taking a course on youth and the law, Cristina came to appreciate the law as a powerful tool for ensuring that children lead healthy and hopeful lives. Currently, as a second year student at U.C. Hastings Law School, Cristina is motivated by her devotion to children's rights, civil rights, and ensuring that everyone can access a quality education. Cristina will work with the National Center for Youth Law in San Francisco this summer.

Christine Keeyeh Wee

Christine Wee attends Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. She is there for a very specific reason, to become a children's advocate attorney. She wants to become an effective attorney for children. To her this means that she will represent the child holistically. She believes that similar to a child's teacher or mentor, a child's advocate attorney needs to understand her client's needs, wants and fears. Christine discovered her interest in this area of law through her love of teaching. As an undergraduate student, tutoring children brought life into her academic studies. It also made her realize the vast inequities children face due to poverty, violence and an over burdened school system. Christine will work at Lawyers for Children in New York City this fall.

Jonathan P. Witmer-Rich

Jonathan started law school at the University of Michigan last May, so he is eager for a break from school. He grew up in rural northwestern Ohio and graduated from Goshen College in northern Indiana with an English degree. While at Goshen, he edited the school paper and spent a semester living with a family in the Ivory Coast studying French, among other things. Jonathan's legal interests include poverty law and restorative justice. He and his wife spend lots of time in their garden, and he enjoys cooking anything they manage to eke out of it. Jonathan will work at the Child Advocacy Law Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School this summer.

Pamela S. Woods

Pam is a rising third year student at Howard University School of Law in Washington, DC, and her home is Atlanta, Georgia. She currently works in her law school's clinical law center and volunteers in a local program called Y.E.S.-"Youth Empowered For Services". Pam, along with several other classmates, started the Howard University Child Advocacy Law Association in the Spring of 1998. She hopes to work in the public interest field-specifically in the area of child advocacy/child welfare after graduation. Pam will work this summer at the Michigan Child Welfare Law Resource Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Mari Zellner-Sawyer

Mari Zellner-Sawyer is a member of the Harvard Law School class of 2000 and a part-time child care substitute teacher. Last summer she had a wonderful experience at Legal Advocates for Children & Youth in San Jose, CA. This summer, Mari will work with the Family Advocacy Program in Boston Medical Center's Pediatrics Department, hopefully doing some interesting and important work with lawyers, pediatricians, and child psychologists. She is currently writing a research paper on U.S. children of color and adoption law and is seriously considering adopting a black and/or Latino/a child in the future. She looks forward to interacting with the other dedicated people at the child welfare law training.