The University of Pennsylvania Young Alumni Award honors the achievement of an alumna who has graduated within the past 10 years.

Sonja D. Kerr will be leaving the Public Interest Law Center in early January 2016 to join Cuddy as National Director of Impact Litigation. 

Staff attorney Ben Geffen, former staff attorney James Eiseman, and pro bono attorneys from Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP will receive the Child Health Advocate Award from the American Academy of Pediatrics.

We will celebrate with staff attorney Amy Laura Cahn and her clients, the Eastwick Friends & Neighbors Coalition, at the 2015 Tribute to Change on October 1.

In September we will welcome the new chief of the Defender Association of Philadelphia as an ex-officio member of our board.

Our 2014 Annual Report and 2015 Strategy is now available online: https://pubintlaw.org/annual-report-2014/

On July 13, 2015, we received the Juanita Jackson Mitchell Award from the NAACP at its annual convention.

The deadline has passed for 2015 fellowships.

We are pleased to welcome three new board members, thank departing board members for their service, and celebrate a new slate of board officers.

The Law Center’s bylaws provide a wonderful infusion of talent each year by designating eight individuals as ex officio board members.