2021 Peggy Browning Fellows

Caleb Gallus JD’22 University of Arizona College of Law Tucson, AZ Justice at Work Boston, MA Before he considered law school, Caleb spent over a decade working as a bicycle mechanic inMassachusetts and Pennsylvania. At age 13, he held low wage grocery and convenience store jobs, working alongside immigrants from Central America, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. As a high school punk rocker, he organized a student walkout against the second Iraq War and has been active in social movements. In college, Caleb organized with the Industrial Workers of the World and interned with Argentina’s worker- occupied factory movement. After graduating, he organized against police brutality, with the Occupy movement, and alongside the Black Lives Matter movement. In Philadelphia, Caleb interned with the Amistad Law Project when the George Floyd/Breonna Taylor protests erupted. When he is not organizing, he is probably riding a bicycle. 2021 Peggy Browning Summer Fellows Renato Flores JD’22 University of San Francisco School of Law San Francisco, CA Legal Aid at Work San Francisco, CA Born and raised in Los Angeles, Renato saw how much inequality there was in the workplace - not only from his own experiences but those of his family and the clients he was able to assist at California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA). During his time at UC Santa Cruz, Renato interned with CRLA assisting low- income individuals in a broad array of areas, but the employment cases always intrigued him. He believes that all employees should be treated with dignity and respect regardless of their position. Renato is looking forward to working this summer in San Francisco to continue his passion for assisting individuals in employment matters and hopes to become a labor and employment attorney. Hugo Garcia JD’22 Loyola Law School Los Angeles, CA United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) Washington, DC Hugo received his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. He organized immigrant workers around economic and social justice issues. After organizing campaigns with the AFL-CIO, he worked with the labor policy team at the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions in Washington DC. Last year, Hugo was also awarded a Peggy Browning Summer Fellowship working at the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) International Union. At UFCW, he has worked on a variety of issues, including unfair labor practices under the NLRA, safety and health standards, strategic bargaining, and employee misclassification. Lindsey Franklin JD’22 Seattle University School of Law Seattle, WA National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) Washington, DC Lindsey is the proud descendant of three generations of union workers. She is the first in her family to graduate college, earning her degree in political science from Penn State. She became involved in the workers’ rights movement after experiencing wage theft and the harassment of her co-workers while working in the restaurant industry. After graduation, she honed her skills as a community and political organizer before transitioning to work with organized labor. In 2019 and 2020, Lindsey worked for the Oregon AFL- CIO to enact pro-worker policies, including Covid-19 workplace protections. In law school, she is on the board for the American Constitution Society and the Labor and Employment Law Association, and she is a research assistant. When she is not working on workers’ rights causes, you can find her spending time with her partner Colton, a UFCW member, and her beagle, Casey.