2021 Peggy Browning Fellows

2021 Peggy Browning Summer Fellows Angie Liao JD’22 Yale Law School New Haven, CT Partnership for Working Families Oakland, CA In law school, Angie has been a member of the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, the Civil Rights and Environmental Law Clinic, and has worked with the New Haven Legal Assistance Association. Alongside a collective of classmates, she also restarted Yale’s National Lawyers Guild chapter and formed an Economic Justice and Organized Labor Committee. There, law students can engage with community-led campaigns for economic justice, including worker and housing justice, in New Haven and throughout Connecticut. Prior to law school, Angie was a union organizer for AFT in Michigan. Last summer she interned at the Detroit Justice Center. She hopes to become a lawyer who will fight for worker and social justice through communicative, innovative, and education-oriented movement lawyering. Annalise Leonelli JD’22 St. John’s University School of Law Queens, NY Pitta LLP New York, NY The proud granddaughter of a union steelworker and a first-generation college graduate, Annalise graduated from Rutgers University summa cum laude with a certificate in women’s leadership. Before law school, she earned an M.F.A. in film production from New York University’s Tisch Asia in Singapore, where she lived for three years. In addition to working in the film industry for almost a decade, she supplemented her income by working in bars and restaurants and as a tutor. Annalise attends law school on a full-tuition scholarship. She has served on the executive board for the Coalition for Social Justice and as editor- in-chief of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development . Her Note supported combatting sex trafficking through labor and employment law, instead of criminal law. Rosie La Puma Lebel JD’24 Stanford Law School Stanford, CA Global Labor Justice- International Labor Rights Forum Washington, DC Rosie spent several years working for migrants’ rights andfoundherself increasinglydrawntotheareaof labor rights. The takeaway was clear: migrant communities cannot thrive without economic justice and economic justice cannot exclude migrant communities. Prior to law school, she worked to pair trafficking survivors and asylum-seekers with pro bono attorneys at The Advocates for Human Rights. She then spent a few years fundraising for Latinx nonprofits at Hispanics in Philanthropy. Currently, she is pursuing a joint JD and Masters in International Policy to further study how to protect worker and migrant rights in a world increasingly impacted by climate change. She is a volunteer with the Stanford Workers’ Rights Clinic and Stanford Advocates for Immigrant Rights. Sarah Leadem JD’23 Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA National Employment Law Project (NELP) New York, NY Sarah fell in love with the labor movement while in college, where she mobilized students to support campus workers’ contract negotiations and advocate for domestic worker rights. She is a joint degree student in law school and at the Kennedy School of Government. Before law school, Sarah worked as an organizer, strategic campaigner, and policy advocate. As the worker rights’ director for the California Domestic Workers’ Coalition, she advocated to pass statewide legislation and led a program of statewide labor rights enforcement for California’s domestic workforce. In 2016, she coordinated the field campaign to pass the California DomesticWorkers Bill of Rights. Most recently, she interned with California’s governor and the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency, on COVID-19 workforce recovery and housing.