2020 Peggy Browning Summer Fellows

2020 Peggy Browning Summer Fellows Huda Khwaja JD’21 Northeastern University School of Law Boston, MA Segal Roitman LLP Boston, MA Huda was homeschooled for most of her life and graduated early as a result. At Agnes Scott College, she majored in History and Human Rights, focusing on social movements and Muslim minorities in the West. She worked in organizing immigrants/refugees, economic justice, and uplifting students of color and religious minorities on campuses. Huda has been a volunteer with the Muslim American Society, an organization focused on empowering and developing American Muslim youth. She also participates in the US Council of Muslim Organizations as a lobbyist on Capitol Hill. Huda’s interest in labor and employment started with a dedication to civil and human rights. She previously interned at Council for American-Islamic Relations - Massachusetts (CAIR-MA) working with the legal team on civil rights and liberties of Muslim residents in Massachusetts. Andrew Keefe JD’22 Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA Greater Boston Legal Services Boston, MA As a JD/PhD student in Sociology & Social Policy, Andrew studies, among other things, the formation of political coalitions in Boston’s labor movement. In 2019, he was a staff organizer for the Harvard Graduate Students Union – United Auto Workers. Andrew helped mobilize a majority of his peers to strike and demand a labor contract with protections against discrimination and harassment, fair pay and comprehensive health care.  Prior to graduate school, Andrew served as a Madeline Albright Fellow at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, researching barriers to social services faced by low- income immigrant families.  In college, he studied Linguistics and Media & Cultural Studies while working part-time as an organizer and ESL teacher with Latin American and East African immigrant communities.  Thomas Kaplan JD’22 University of Washington School of Law Seattle, WA Barnard, Iglitzin & Lavitt LLP Seattle, WA Thomas first encountered the power of organized labor in his work with the farmworker union, Familias Unidas por la Justicia. He was active in the union’s four-year organizing drive which involved workplace action, democratic organizing and an uncompromising commitment to class struggle. This resulted in fundamental changes in the farmer-farmworker relationship along Western Washington’s main agricultural corridor. Thomas prepared union rosters and evidence for trial and he interacted with union staff and striking workers on a daily basis to support and grow the union’s membership. The successful campaign to win an unprecedented union contract for berry-pickers in northwest Washington changed the course of Thomas’ education and career path. He is now pursuing a JD to build a career with the potential to improve the lives of working people across America. Miranda Katz JD’22 New York University School of Law New York, NY National Employment Law Project New York, NY Miranda’s interest in labor law grew out of her work as a journalist at Wired , where she reported on the gig economy, the rise of automation, and workplace surveillance. She became fascinated by the changing nature of work, and the ways in which the law fails to protect workers who do not fall into traditionally defined categories. Her decision to attend law school grew out of a desire to not only write about the future of work, but to play a more active role in shaping it. In law school, Miranda is a student advocate with the Uncontested Divorce Project and the HIV Law Society, as well as a board representative for If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice.