PILP summer awards provide financial support to allow for students to accept unpaid public interest internships. The award aims to expand equity in the field of public interest law, and encourage students to pursue incredibly important work while learning how to be effective legal advocates. With the help of generous donations, PILP funded ten summer awards this past summer to the following students. 

Aidan Freeman | California Coastkeeper Alliance

Chloe Williams | Metropolitan Public Defender

Grace Badik | Oregon Law Center

Jessie Holmes | California Attorney General

Mackenzie Streissguth | New Mexico Legal Aid, Rural Summer Outreach Program

Micah Shapiro | Cowlitz County Public Defender

Natalie Webb | Criminal Justice Reform Clinic at Lewis & Clark

Pablo San Emeterio | Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center

Stephanie Grayce | Metropolitan Public Defender

Sunny Sidman | Office of the State Public Defender in Billings, MT