2020 Peggy Browning Summer Fellows

2020 Peggy Browning Summer Fellows Joshua Britt JD’22 Yale Law School New Haven, CT United Steelworkers (USW) Pittsburgh, PA Josh first became interested in the labor movement and workers’ rights as an undergraduate observing the union-led fight for better educational conditions at his university. After graduating, he served in the United States Marine Corps, working in the telecommunications and military justice fields. There, Josh gained an increased appreciation for the inherent power imbalance in the employment relationship and the difficulty workers face when advocating for themselves without the support of a union. Josh now hopes to be a union-side labor lawyer. In law school, he is involved in the Law and Political Economy Student Group and the Yale Journal on Regulation . Mackenzie Bouverat JD’22 Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA Laborers’ Int’l Union of North America (LiUNA) Washington, DC For Mackenzie, pursuing a career advancing economic justice always felt like an inevitability. As a first- generation student from a family of factory workers, her post-secondary education gravitated naturally to questions of political economy, wealth distribution, and workers’ empowerment. A Southern Ontario native, Mackenzie spent her college summers working on Ford Motor Company’s automobile assembly line, where her first-hand exposure to unionism deepened her commitment to solidarity and workplace organizing. She went on to pursue a master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Toronto while continuing to help disempowered people through community organizing and outreach. Mackenzie enrolled in law school to learn to effectively channel her dedication to economic justice into a meaningful change for working-class people. Erin Austin JD’22 Washington University School of Law St. Louis, MO United Steelworkers (USW) Pittsburgh, PA Erin took a labor law course that inspired her to go to law school while a graduate student in the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Labor Center. During her master’s, she completed research projects through partnerships with the Teamsters and the International Labor Rights Forum, organized for UFCW Local 1459, and worked for the Massachusetts AFL-CIO as a research assistant. At that time, Erin was a member of GEO/UAW 2322, the union for graduate employees at UMass. Immediately before law school, she was an AmeriCorps member at the Massachusetts Fair Housing Center, where she advocated for Section 8 recipients, families with children, and people with disabilities who face discrimination by landlords. Her legal interests all stem from a desire to mitigate the effects and stifle the causes of income inequality. Zachary Boullt JD’22 Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA Chicago News Guild Chicago, IL A Louisiana native, Zachary developed an interest in labor and employment law from his work in criminal justice reform. Through his experiences at the InnocenceProject of Texas atUTDallas and the Justice Policy Institute in Washington, DC, Zachary learned how important well-compensated and dignified work is for reintegration of formerly incarcerated people and for crime prevention. In law school, Zachary has volunteered and organized for the Harvard Graduate Students Union and for the law school’s dining and catering workers’ hours and safety. As a former editor- in-chief of his undergraduate editorial, Zachary is excited to advocate for media workers’ rights this summer.