Abigail Burman

Baltimore, Maryland

Abigail Burman grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland, and became first involved in activism while she was in high school, by running a campaign to defeat a proposed youth curfew and volunteering for NARAL Maryland and various political campaigns. She then went to the University of Oxford for undergrad, where she received a degree in history and co-founded the first campaign in the United Kingdom to call for university policies on sexual violence. She spent two years as a policy staffer for U.S. Congressman Joe Kennedy, focusing on health care and civil rights. Abigail graduated from University of California, Berkeley School of Law in May, and her project will focus on policies and strategies to enhance access to abortion. Abigail and her girlfriend reside in Baltimore, where her house has an extremely large fig tree on the patio, and as a result Abigail’s pandemic hobby has been making jam.

Kimberly Fayette

New York City Commission on Human Rights

New York, NY

Kimberly Fayette, as a Justice Catalyst-Public Rights Project Fellow, will work with the New York City Commission on Human Rights (NYCCHR). Her project centers on the enforcement of NYCCHR's groundbreaking administrative guidance barring discrimination based on hairstyle and hair texture and includes community education and advocacy efforts around hair discrimination. Additionally, Kimberly will work with NYCCHR to address other forms of anti-Blackness as well as access to justice issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kimberly is a 2020 graduate of the New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar.

Sarah Levine

District of Columbia Attorney General’s Office 

Washington, DC

Sarah Levine is joining the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia as a Justice Catalyst/PRP Fellow. There, she will work to create a coordinated enforcement effort using antitrust, consumer protection, and wage and hour laws in order to protect low-wage workers. Before law school, Sarah worked on workers' rights and worker safety issues as a data scientist. She spent two years as an empirical researcher at Stanford, where she built tools for federal agencies to identify safety violations and predict workplace injuries. As a student at YLS, she spearheaded advocacy efforts pertaining to gender and economic justice through leadership roles in Yale Law Women and the People’s Parity Project. Outside of work, she likes to climb and make maps.

Melodie Meyer

Yurok Tribe Office of the Tribal Attorney 

Klamath, California

Melodie Meyer is a Legal Fellow at the Yurok Tribe Office of the Tribal Attorney. Her work for the Yurok Tribe will involve environment protection and justice efforts. She graduated from UCLA School of Law in 2020 with specializations in Environmental Law and Critical Race Studies. Melodie has a Bachelor’s degree from the University of New Mexico in Native American Studies. She is a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna.

Rajiv Narayan

Oakland City Attorney’s Office 

Oakland, California

Rajiv Narayan returned home to the East Bay to serve as a fellow in the Oakland City Attorney's Office, where he will work to advance health equity using the tools of affirmative litigation. During law school, Rajiv was a clinical student with the Harvard Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. Just prior to law school, Rajiv worked at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, where he served as Special Assistant to the Commissioner of Health. He received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and President of the South Asian Law Students Association. Rajiv received his B.A. summa cum laude from the University of California, Davis, and an M.Sc. with Distinction in Medical Anthropology from the University of Oxford.