Public Interest Fellowship: The SABA NC Foundation Public Interest Fellowship provides a stipend for law students to spend a summer working with public interest law organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.  Click here for more information.  Click here for an application.

Pro Bono Fellowhip: The SABA NC Foundation Pro Bono Fellowship provides a stipend for law student to assist the SABA Pro Bono Committee during the academic year.  Click here for more information.

   

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	Jashoda Kashyup is a rising second-year law student at UC Hastings. She is originally from San Diego, but moved to the Bay Area for college at UC Berkeley, where she received her bachelor’s degree in economics.  This summer, Jashoda will be working at the AIDS Legal Referral Panel as a law clerk.. The ALRP provides free and low-cost legal advice to people with HIV in San Francisco and the Bay Area. By working with these clients, the ALRP is improving their quality of life in a meaningful way. As a summer law clerk at the ALRP, Jashoda will perform direct client services, which will consist of conducting client interviews, responding to general inquiries, providing consultation and advocacy and making referrals in many areas of civil law.
	Meeti Sudame will be working as a summer law clerk for the Operating Engineers Local Union No. 3 in Alameda, CA.  As a life-long resident of the Bay Area, she is excited to return to California to work in the public interest field. This summer, she will be assisting with a variety of transactional and litigation tasks. In addition to conducting legal research and writing, Meeti will assist in witness preparation, taking depositions, and participating in arbitrations. She will gain a considerable amount of hands on experience in the field of labor and employment law by interacting directly with union members and business representatives.
	Mohan Kanungo's father's family is from Orissa and his mother is German/Irish from West Virginia. He speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish fluently, with equally modest Korean and Hindi. Succinctly stated – he is a Third Culture Kid. But his heart is in San Francisco. So he moved to the better coast for law school. His passion for seva has led him to advocate for survivors of domestic violence, migrant workers, undocumented youth, low-income families, resident physicians, veterans of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, refugees from North Korea; even abused animals in Sao Paulo, where he grew up. After graduating from the University of California, San Diego in 2007, he traveled for six months in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and India. He intended to do micro-finance work in the mother land, but quickly realized he could make more of an impact by continuing his legal education in the States. New York confirmed this,where he taught yoga to high school students and realized that many of them were unable to access federal financial aid without legal status. His parents gave him the name Mohan as a variation of Gandhi's first name, Mohandas. And his last name, Kanungo, means lawyer. He is grateful for SABA-NC's sponsorship to continue serving the public interest. This summer he will serve as a judicial extern with Justice Mihara in the California Court of Appeals, and rotate between the Santa Clara Superior Court of Judge Zepeda, Judge Barrett, and Judge Duong. He is a 1L at the Golden Gate University, School of Law, J.D. Candidate, class of 2013
	Saira Hussain is a rising 2L at Berkeley Law. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Saira and her family moved to the Bay Area when Saira was three years old. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2009 with a B.A. in Public Health and a minor in Spanish, and served as a student Senator. As an undergraduate, Saira worked as a Legal Extern at the National Legal Sanctuary for Community Advancement, a non-profit law office aiding the Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian community with issues of immigration, asylum, and discrimination. She also interned as an Assistant Investigator at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C. After graduating, Saira worked as a Project Coordinator for the Sacramento Coalition for Working Families, where she set up free tax preparation sites for low-income families and promoted the Earned Income Tax Credit throughout Sacramento County. As a student at Berkeley Law, Saira is a member of the Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Law and an Articles Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. She has devoted much of the past year to the California Asylum Representation Clinic, where she is currently representing an indigenous Guatemalan client in her claim for asylum. Saira will spend her summer working as a Law Clerk at the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center (LAS-ELC) in San Francisco. She will be working in the Gender Equity department, which focuses on ending barriers to employment based on gender, and addresses discrimination issues affecting low-income women in the workplace. Her duties will include legal research and writing, and drafting of court documents. She will also serve as a counselor in LAS-ELC’s Workers’ Rights Clinic. Saira plans to continue her public interest work in the Bay Area throughout law school and after graduation.
	Sonya Sohail will be working with API Legal Outreach this summer providing direct legal services to members of the Asian and Pacific Islander communities in the bay area. APILO's work is currently focused in the areas of family law, violence against women, elder abuse, immigration, human trafficking, public benefits and other social justice issues. APILO provides assistance to clients in numerous languages and dialects, including many South Asian languages and focuses on providing culturally appropriate services to its clients. Sonya is looking forward to interacting with clients and bringing the law to those who traditionally have not had access to the legal system. She is also thrilled to be a representative of the South Asian community of Northern California and to benefit this community through her work.