Anna Belle Newport is a Litigation Fellow at the Family Justice Law Center. She graduated as a Kent Scholar from Columbia Law School before clerking in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. At Columbia, Anna Belle was a Public Interest/Public Service Fellow, a Racial & Social Justice Fellow, and a national Bergstrom Child Welfare Fellow. She was also a member of the Family Defense Clinic and the Executive Notes Editor for the Human Rights Law Review, where her note on family Miranda warnings was published. She has interned at the Brooklyn Defender Services, Bronx Defenders, Center for Appellate Litigation, and Still She Rises. She is a member of the New York bar.

Amelia Goldberg is a Kirkland and Ellis Fellow at the Family Justice Law Center. Amelia graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from New York University School of Law, and was recipient of the NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law prize for excellence in employment law. As a law student, they participated in the Family Defense and Housing Defense clinics. Following their fellowship, they will be clerking for the Honorable Nina Morrison of the Eastern District of New York.

Alex Moon is the Legal & Operations Associate at the Family Justice Law Center. Alex graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and majored in philosophy and sociology. He has interned with the Public Interest Law Center and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, where he worked on issues related to housing injustice and employment discrimination. He served as Professor Dorothy Roberts' research intern, during which he was introduced to the inequalities within the child welfare system. Alex is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and an alumnus of the Excelano Project.

Eliza McDuffie is a Litigation Counsel at the Family Justice Law Center. Prior to joining FJLC, Eliza was an Equal Justice Works fellow at Southern Center for Human Rights, where she challenged horrific conditions of confinement, represented clients in resentencing hearings, and litigated against voter intimidation. Eliza began her career at the MacArthur Justice Center’s Supreme Court & Appellate Program and clerked for the Honorable Beverly B. Martin on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Eliza graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the winning team in the 2018 Ames Moot Court competition and participated in the Capital Punishment Clinic. She is a member of the New York and Georgia bars.

Jamilah McMillan is a Berkeley Law School Public Interest Scholarship Litigation Fellow at the Family Justice Law Center. Jamilah is an alumna of Berkeley Law School, where she was awarded the Public Interest Scholarship. During her first-year summer, Jamilah interned at Law for Black Lives, a Black and femme led non-profit. In 2023, Jamilah was selected as a Bergstrom Child Welfare Fellow at the University of Michigan Law School. During her second-year summer, Jamilah interned at the Brooklyn Defender Services in their Family Defense Practice before spending a semester abroad doing public interest legal work in South Africa. At Berkeley, Jamilah was a member of the Youth Defender Clinic, where she assisted in the representation of young people from low-income families.

David Shalleck-Klein is the Executive Director and Founder of the Family Justice Law Center. David had been an attorney at The Bronx Defenders in the Family Defense and Criminal Defense practices. David graduated magna cum laude and Order of the Coif from New York University School of Law, after which he clerked for the Honorable Tanya S. Chutkan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. At NYU, David was a member of the Family Defense and Juvenile Defender clinics and was the recipient of the Christian Jarecki ’98 Memorial Prize for outstanding work and commitment in a law clinic.

Lewis Bossing is a Senior Litigation Counsel at the Family Justice Law Center. Before coming to FJLC, he was a senior staff attorney at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, where he worked on a broad array of issues affecting adults and children with mental disabilities, including community integration, education, and criminal system reform. Before working at Bazelon, Bossing was a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center (now Legal Aid at Work) in San Francisco, California, and at the Disability Rights Section of the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice. Bossing is a 1999 graduate of the New York University School of Law. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Sarah Ortlip-Sommers is a Litigation Fellow at the Family Justice Law Center. Before joining FJLC, Sarah was a Justice Catalyst Fellow with Public Justice’s Access to Justice Project, where she litigated against state and corporate abuse in carceral institutions and court secrecy in civil rights lawsuits. She clerked for the Honorable Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania after graduating as a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar from Columbia Law School. At CLS, Sarah participated in the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, was a pro bono researcher with the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project, and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Columbia Journal of Gender and Law. She is a member of the New York and the District of Columbia bars.

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