MEET THE FELLOWS
THERESA ROCHA BEARDALL
Theresa Rocha Beardall is a third year student at the University of Illinois College of Law. Originally from Los Angeles, Theresa now lives in Champaign with her husband and two beautiful children. She received her BA from San Francisco State University in Latina/o Studies and American Indian Studies and her MA from the UCLA in Federal Indian Law and Policy. Theresa currently works for the American Indian Studies Program at Illinois and is involved in a wide variety of community organizations and legal aid projects. Theresa clerked at the Northwest Justice Project's Native American Unit. There she worked on tribal court research, self-help legal material on Indian wills and probate and implemented a legal aid action plan for the Chief Seattle Club Urban Indian Legal Clinic which services the needs of Seattle's homeless. She is extremely excited about her recent acceptance into a PhD program in Sociology where she will combine these interests into scholarly publications and a career teaching law. Prior to law school, Theresa was a credentialed high school science teacher.
CELINA CABAN
Celina Cabán, a rising third year law student at CUNY School of Law, was born and raised in the Bronx. Celina pursued her B.A. at Barnard College where she majored in Economic History, minored in Latin American Studies, and wrote her Senior Thesis on US Hispanic Consumption and Purchasing Power. After college, she worked as a paralegal with her father, Osvaldo Cabán, CUNY Class of 1987, and at Health Plus HMO as a bilingual member service representative. An active law student, Celina competed in the 2013 Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) Moot Court Competition, was on the board of the Latin American Law Students Association (LALSA), a delegate for the Mississippi Project, and is currently the Special Events Editor for CUNY’s Law Review. The summer of 2012 she interned in the Southern District with U.S. Magistrate Ronald Ellis and received the 2012 Puerto Rican Bar Association (PRBA) Student Scholarship to fund her work. This past summer she interned in the Eastern District with District Judge John Gleeson through the Joint Minority Bar Judicial Internship Program. With the support of her mentor, Judge Denny Chin, she is currently working to establish a judicial internship program for NYC high school students of diverse backgrounds.
BRANDY DEORNELLAS
Born and raised in California's Bay Area, Brandy DeOrnellas attended the University of California, Berkeley for undergraduate work where she double majored in Political Science and Social Welfare. Before heading to Harvard Law School, Brandy worked in the California Senate where she helped facilitate the passage of major women's rights legislation. Since law school, Brandy has become a certified mediator and performed direct legal services for victims of domestic violence and formerly incarcerated women. She has also contributed to the advocacy efforts of Legal Services for Prisoners with Children and Equal Rights Advocates as a summer law clerk. After law school, Brandy hopes to continue public interest work either through mediation, political advocacy, or direct legal services. In her spare time, Brandy enjoys eating food in Berkeley, camping with family, and traveling to new places.
KELSEY GREEN
Kelsey Green is a third-year law student at Northwestern University School of Law. While at Northwestern, Kelsey has lead a group of students on a research trip to Ethiopia and contributed to the work of the Center for International Human Rights. She is a student editor of the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, in which her student comment on mandatory ultrasound laws was selected for publication. In addition to her academic pursuits, Kelsey has served on the boards of the Women's Leadership Coalition and the Public Interest Law Group. Kelsey spent her law school summers in the Office of the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia and in the Denver office of Morrison & Foerster. Prior to law school, Kelsey taught English in Argentina and later worked as an accountant for an international development organization. Originally from Denver, Colorado, Kelsey received her undergraduate degree in French with high honors from The College of William & Mary. In her free time, Kelsey enjoys hiking, listening to live music, and throwing dinner parties.
ANISHA GUPTA
Anisha Gupta is a third year student at Berkeley Law. She graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College in 2009 with a B.A. in English and Peace and Justice Studies. Prior to joining Berkeley Law, Anisha worked in the U.S. Department of State as a policy advisor to Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad at the U.S. Mission to the UN. In law school, Anisha spent her first summer interning in India for a San Francisco-based organization called Accountability Counsel that focuses on corporate accountability and human rights. Since returning from India, her advocacy has turned to indigent criminal defense and domestic racial justice. As a certified law student in Berkeley's Youth Defender Clinic, Anisha has represented young people in delinquency cases and school disciplinary hearings. Anisha interned at the San Francisco Public Defender's Office in the felony trial division during her 2L summer, and spent this past Fall doing capital defense work at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. After graduation, Anisha will be moving to New York where she will join the Bronx Defenders as a staff attorney in the Criminal Defense Practice.
TERESA GUTIERREZ
Teresa Gutierrez is a 3L at Loyola Law School. She is the proud product of immigrant parents and economic disadvantage. Teresa earned her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Spanish with a minor in Business Administration at the University of Southern California (USC). After USC, Teresa moved her life from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. and worked for both chambers of Congress. She later worked for Kids in Need of Defense and the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. While in law school, Teresa has proven to be invested in her legal education and has demonstrated exceptional leadership. This summer, Teresa is an extern in federal appellate court. During her final year of law school, Teresa will serve on the Scott Moot Court Honors Board as Chief Justice, participate in the Hobbs District Attorney Program, and lead the Loyola International and Comparative Law Review (ILR) as Executive Editor.
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