2021 Peggy Browning Fellows

2021 Peggy Browning Summer Fellows Sara Miller JD’22 New York University School of Law New York, NY Rothner, Segall & Greenstone Los Angeles, CA From the southern Missouri Ozarks, Sara is passionate about civil rights, workers’ rights, abolition, community building, and art. Her passions are inspired by the diverse community in her home town, and in particular, the immigrant Korean community. This community inspired her to write her undergraduate senior thesis, “Domestic Workers: Planning for Retirement in an Unregulated Market” while at Yale University, and they continue to inspire her work today. Before law school, Sara worked as a social policy researcher in Oakland, while she volunteered with Unite Here Local 2, taught an English course at San Quentin State Prison, and coached volleyball. In law school, she assists clients prepare expungement petitions and declarations and spent her last summer working at The Bail Project. Sara is interested in joining and supporting movements that center on liberation and building people power. Jared Milfred JD’23 Stanford Law School Stanford, CA American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Washington, DC Jaredwas bornand raised inPortland, OR, thegrandson of a union musician who refused to patronize any establishment with a player piano. Before law school, he was a field organizer for a campaign for Attorney General of New York, a special litigation intern at Orleans Public Defenders, and a legal assistant at a progressive public interest firm in Washington, DC, that represents workers, consumers, and labor unions. During his first year of law school, Jared was a member editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties and helped low-income tenants in the Bay Area through Stanford’s Housing Pro Bono Project. Anna Mendoza JD’22 Seattle University School of Law Seattle, WA American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Washington, DC Anna grew up in Portland, OR, where she first joined strike lines with her teachers during multiple labor disputes throughout her schooling. She became interested in working in the labor movement during her senior year of college when she took a class on domestic labor as a part of her Women’s and Gender Studies program. After graduation, she spent two years as an external organizer with SEIU Local 721 in Los Angeles where she worked on new organizing, worksite, and political campaigns. As an organizer she won a statewide campaign for homecare workers in California and a municipal campaign for Senior Personnel Analysts in Los Angeles. While working for Local 721 she was constantly inspired by the workers and attended law school to continue to advocate for workers’ rights.    David Meyerson JD’22 University of Michigan School of Law Ann Arbor, MI Communications Workers of America Washington, DC Before law school, David was a software engineer and member of the Tech Workers Coalition, organizing for fair working conditions for contract and service workers in Big Tech. He is especially interested in areas of law related to algorithmic accountability, and labor organizing in the tech sector. David is a student attorney in the Michigan Law Workers’ Rights Clinic, he has won tens of thousands of dollars for wrongly- disqualified unemployment insurance claimants in administrative court, and worked on efforts to reform Michigan unemployment law. David co-founded the Michigan Law chapter of the People’s Parity Project, where he organizes with law students against coercive contracts and other policies that unjustly stack the deck against workers. David has a B.A. in computer science and history from the University of Wisconsin.