CEPS CENTER FOR ETHICS & PUBLIC SERVICE
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
1 CAMPAIGNS 6 EVENTS A Look Back
8 UPDATES Faculty & Staff
10 AWARDS
Volume 17: Fall 2018 – Fall 2019
EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES
Through Litigation and Community Organizing Page 2
MIAMILAW UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW
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ETHICAL JUDGMENT
PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITY
AND PUBLIC SERVICE IN LAW AND SOCIETY
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EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES THROUGH LITIGATION AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZING Environmental Justice Clinic (EJC) Interns and Fellows gain the complete experience of what it means to be a community lawyer. The inspiration of the resiliency and
dedication of the communities with whom we work is often coupled with the frustration of working in a system which continues, at best, to ignore and marginalize communities, or at worst, to actively harm them. Aptly summed up by 2L EJC Intern, Daren Hooper, when witnessing the unsatisfactory “remediation” during a site inspection of a contaminated dumpsite in the heart of Dunbar, an African American community in Fort Myers, Florida, he stated: “We want more for the residents of Dunbar.” The Dunbar community is a low-to-moderate income community of color that has been historically disenfranchised and discriminated against. Dunbar is, unfortunately, illustrative of many communities across South Florida and around the nation. It is representative not only because the community has been harmed by a municipally-created dumpsite of contaminated sludge in a residential area, but also because of the disregard the City of Fort Myers currently has and has had for the community’s health. The EJC has been working with the Dunbar community for over two years. Notably, the community only found out about the contamination because of the efforts of Patricia Borns, a tenacious investigative reporter and the 2018 Center for Ethics and Public Service Hoeveler Award recipient. However, unlike the residents of Dunbar, the City has known for nearly twenty years that the lime sludge (a byproduct of the water treatment process) and the site where the sludge was dumped are contaminated with arsenic. Moreover, experts from both the public and private sectors repeatedly urged the City to remove the sludge and remediate the soil and groundwater. The City of Fort Myers ignored these recommendations and did not even make an effort to fence off or signpost the area until this information became news headlines. In March 2018, with the assistance from the EJC, lead counsel, Davis & Whitlock and Ralf Brookes, filed a lawsuit asserting the City of Fort Myers violated Florida state law and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), a federal environmental law relating to open dumps. Rather than taking responsibility and working with the community to address the issue, the City of Fort Myers chose to hire outside counsel to litigate. In the early stages of the litigation, the EJC hosted a community workshop to explain the scope of the lawsuit and the litigation process, as well as to answer any questions or concerns. Additionally, given the class action nature of the lawsuit, the workshop was a way to facilitate community members getting involved in the litigation and the remediation of the site. Although many community members participated in the workshop, a few community members became self-selected community leaders by stepping up to form Dunbar Connect. Dunbar Connect is a community group that fields questions from the community, brings concerns to the EJC’s attention, and assists in the distribution of information about the 2 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW Volume 17: Fall 2018 – Fall 2019
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status of the litigation to the community. Through the litigation and Dunbar Connect, the community has galvanized around the feeling of outrage at the injustice of the City’s complete and utter disregard for the Dunbar community; betrayal from the City purposefully keeping this information from them and putting their health at risk; and fear that their bodies and the bodies of their children who played on the property are contaminated because of the exposure to the arsenic-laden sludge. Dunbar Connect has played an instrumental role in representing the voice of the community throughout the litigation. For example, during settlement negotiations, Dunbar Connect led a settlement workshop with the putative class to determine acceptable settlement terms for the community. Through the workshop, the desires of the community were discussed, prioritized, and articulated clearly. However, no settlement was reached with the City. After the lawsuit was filed against the City, one of the community’s requested remedies finally came into fruition: the City of Fort Myers began to remediate the toxic dumpsite it created and maintained for years in the middle of their community. The City insisted that neither public pressure nor the litigation had anything to do with remediation and that the remediation was “voluntarily.” Further, the City maintained that the City was not at fault and publicly blamed the contamination on other potential sources rather than the sludge it dumped on the site. Remediation activities began in November 2018 and focused on the removal of the sludge itself. Throughout the remediation, the City of Fort Myers continued its conduct of disregard for the people of Dunbar, tainting the neighborhood streets in clouds of dust. Notably, the site has yet to be fully remediated. As the City was remediating the dumpsite, the question
MORE CAMPAIGNS Old Smokey Cleanup Campaign The Old Smokey Cleanup campaign harnesses legal advocacy and grassroots organizing to ensure the environmental cleanup of municipal parks contaminated by hazardous waste from the City of Miami’s now shuttered West Grove incinerator (i.e., Old Smokey). In 2017, an EJC-cooperating litigation team filed a state class action lawsuit against the City of Miami and the engineering firm contracted to perform site assessment, environmental reporting, sampling and remediation on behalf of past and present residents of the West Grove. The community seeks damages and the medical monitoring of the health of residents exposed to contamination. n
of what was to become of the site became of urgent importance because redevelopment plans were underway. The City of Fort Myers created a Steering Committee for the South Street Future Site Plan “to determine future plans to redevelop” the dumpsite. Unsurprisingly, although the site was in the heart of the Dunbar community, there were no community members on the committee. Moreover, community members were routinely denied their requests to be part of the committee. After a series of exchanges with the EJC, the City finally allowed community members to sit on the steering committee to decide the fate of the dumpsite. There are now two community members that are part of the steering committee. Both members also belong to Dunbar Connect. In addition to the complete remediation of the site, community members, past and present, also want to see something positive done with the site, such as a memorial in remembrance of those who have passed. Most importantly, they want an apology, or simply acknowledgment, for the wrongs committed by the City. With a voice on the steering committee, at least Dunbar residents can make their voices heard. The law is limited in its remedies. It cannot necessarily make a community whole or even feel heard and, since it is reactionary, it does little to ensure that a particular condition does not present itself again. Accordingly, litigation is only one of many strategies that the EJC uses to support our community partners. Facilitating community organizing is an important part of lawyering because it helps people gain the skills they will need to achieve and retain influence in their own neighborhoods. n
Climate Justice The EJC works to ensure that South Florida seizes the opportunity to create a healthy and equitable society by addressing issues of climate justice. The EJC participates in the Resilient Greater Miami & the Beaches’ Robust Recovery—PREPlanning for POSTRecovery Working Group and is working to expand both environmental advocacy and public understanding of climate justice in Miami. n
On the Cover: Photo by Natalie Barefoot
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CEPS PROGRAMS Community Equity, Innovation, and Resource Lab Founded in 2018 to address the needs of socioeconomically impoverished and politically disenfranchised inner-city communities of color, the Community Equity, Innovation, and Resource Lab integrates anti-poverty and civil rights advocacy and grassroots organizing strategies with university-wide, interdisciplinary resources to advance social justice initiatives in collaboration with neighborhood civic associations, church congregations, nonprofit groups, and tenant and homeowner organizations across the fields of economic development, education, employment, health, housing, social services, transportation, and the natural and built environment. n
Historic Black Church Program The Historic Black Church Program is a community outreach and rights education project operated in partnership with more than 60 inner-city, faith-based groups, nonprofit corporations, and civic and neighborhood associations in South Florida. Program highlights include community-based advocacy and organizing in support of the West Grove Trolley Garage Campaign, which halted the discriminatory placement of a City of Coral Gables municipal bus depot in the historically segregated neighborhood of Coconut Grove Village West, the East Gables Trolley Access Campaign, which won municipal trolley service for residents of the historically segregated MacFarlane Homestead Subdivision and the Golden Gates District of East Coral Gables, and the Coconut Grove Village West Housing and Community Development Task Force Campaign, a fair-and-affordable housing coalition seeking to halt the mass eviction, displacement, and resegregation of vulnerable black tenants and homeowners, negotiate urban development-specific community benefits agreements, and reform municipal zoning policies that imperil at-risk tenants and homeowners. n
Legal Profession Roundtable Program The Legal Profession Roundtable Program includes both CLE-oriented practice seminars and student-centered leadership workshops in cooperation with Florida bar associations, federal and state courts, law firms, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations. Recent program highlights include the Fourth Annual Legal Malpractice and Professional Liability Roundtable (Apr. 26, 2019), the Lawyers in Leadership Award luncheon honoring the long-standing civil rights work of the Florida Justice Institute, the Hoeveler Award luncheon honoring the environmental journalists Patricia Borns and Jenny Staletovich, and Leadership Roundtable lunches with leading members of the South Florida bar. n 4 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW Volume 17: Fall 2018 – Fall 2019
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE CLINIC (EJC) Since its inception in 1996, CEPS has incubated many programs, clinics, and projects at the University of Miami School of Law. In 2016, recognizing unmet environmental
health needs in Miami’s low-income communities of color through its Historic Black Church Program partners, CEPS founded the Environmental Justice Clinic (EJC). The intent was and is to serve the community and to educate students in law relevant to today’s most pressing social justice and environmental issues by providing both classroom and hands on experience. Over the past three years, more than thirty students have collaborated with communities in South Florida through toxic tort litigation, legal rights education, policy initiatives, and research. With the appointment this past June of Natalie Barefoot as EJC Director, University of Miami School of Law is recognizing the EJC as a full-fledged member of the University of Miami clinical program. While making its transition outside of the CEPS umbrella, the EJC will continue its work, increasing its focus on climate change, one of the most pressing social justice issues of our time, as it is the poor and vulnerable who will feel most acutely its impacts. As the EJC’s legal staff, including its Director, Natalie Barefoot; Mysun Fellow, Daniela Tagtachian; and Part-Time Lecturer, Abigail Fleming, and projects are currently funded through donations, the EJC will still count on your support in order to continue to serve our students and community. If you would like to contribute to our work or contact us, please donate at www.law.miami.edu/give-EJC or contact us at environmentaljusticeclinic@law.miami.edu. n
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CEPS LAB STARTUP — A CASE STUDY OF THE NEW COMMUNITY EQUITY LAB In recent years numerous law schools have launched “labs” to develop more innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to systemic sociolegal problems and to train students in project-based, problem-solving partnerships with courts, legal aid organizations, and community-based stakeholders.
Lab portfolios include policy research, data investigation, digital product and advocacy tool development, service delivery innovation, needs-assessment and capacity-building, and pilot program design and implementation. Today more than a dozen law school “labs” mark the landscape of legal education, for example, Stanford’s Legal Design Lab, Northeastern University’s NuLaw Lab, Chicago Kent’s Law Lab, Harvard Law School’s Access to Justice Lab, University of Arizona’s Innovation for Justice program, Suffolk Law School’s LIT Lab, Georgetown’s Iron Tech Lawyer program, Brigham Young’s LawX program, Michigan State’s Legal RnD, and Vanderbilt’s Law and Innovation program. See Margaret Hagan, Justice Innovation with Law School Design Labs, ABA Dialogue (June 15, 2018), https://www.americanbar.org/ groups/legal_services/publications/dialogue/volume/21/ spring-2018/iolta-design-labs/. In the fall of 2018, CEPS created the Community Equity, Innovation, and Resource Lab (“Community Equity Lab”) in cooperation with a 1L Study Group and supervising CEPS 2L Fellow Wifredo Fernandez. The Mission of the Community Equity Lab is to train students to collaborate with civic and faith-based groups, legal aid organizations, and nonprofit groups in providing rights education, statistical data access and fact investigation, and policy research to low-income communities of color across the fields of civil rights, economic development, poverty law, and public health. During the spring and summer of 2019, a group of CEPS Fellows and Interns staffed the Community Equity Lab in forging a community-based, fair housing partnership with the Coconut Grove Village West Housing and Community Development Task Force, which later incorporated as Grove Rights and Community Equity, Inc. (GRACE, Inc.). This continuing partnership highlights the promise of the nascent “lab” training model for legal education, including classroom instruction, fieldwork supervision, research and scholarship, university-wide multidisciplinary ventures, and community-driven civil rights advocacy. n
MORE CAMPAIGNS Anti-Displacement Project Gentrification has caused dramatic changes in urban, low-income minority neighborhoods in South Florida, as well as across the nation. Rather than focus on the many factors that can lead to gentrification, the EJC focuses on alleviating the main unwanted consequence of gentrification, the displacement of people and i in particular, the displacement of low-income minority communities. Displacement is defined as the involuntary relocation of households due to direct development or because of increasing market values, rents, or changes in the neighborhood’s ability to meet basic needs. Of particular relevance in South Florida is climate gentrification, which occurs when climate-driven development (i.e., when areas more resilient to the effects of climate change such as those in higher elevations are targeted for development), displaces existing low-to-moderate income marginalized communities. n
Community Rights Education Workshops Community rights education workshops are part of the HBCP’s and EJC’s shared strategy to empower communities. In collaboration with community partners such as the Coconut Grove Ministerial Alliance, Grove United Environmental Health Coalition, and the Collective Empowerment Group, the Clinic has both researched and organized workshops on topics of municipal equity including community economic development, neighborhood conservation, Florida Landlord-Tenant Law, environmental health, and public resource allocation. n
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CEPS Spring Reception 1—Spring Reception 2018 (l-r) Daniela Tagtachian, Alex Meyer, Sydney Thurman-Baldwin, Lauren Oswald, Natalie Barefoot, Abigail Fleming, Diego Traibel, Steven Hollis 2—Spring Reception 2018 (l-r) Julie Hochsztein, Brittany Herbert, Justin Weatherwax, Alex Meyer, Darren Hooper, Theresa Pinto, Madeline Seales, Sydney Thurman-Baldwin, Lauren Oswald, Abigail Fleming, Diego Traibel, Steven Hollis, Daniela Tagtachian, Lauren Madigan, Natalie Barefoot, Ebonie Carter 3—2018 William M. Hoeveler Award Lunch (l-r) Jenny Staletovich, Christine Davies Hoeveler, Tony Alfieri, Patricia Borns 4— 2019 Lawyers in Leadership Award Lunch, Tony Alfieri and Judge Jacqueline Becerra 5—2018 Lawyers in Leadership Award Lunch
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The Center held its annual spring reception to honor the achievements of the 2017-2019 graduating Fellow and Interns in the Historic Black Church program and the Environmental Justice Clinic. n
Events CEPS
William M. Hoeveler Award The William M. Hoeveler Award honors extraordinary members of the bar and bench, nonprofit organizations, and individuals distinguished by their long-standing dedication to ethics and public service. Our 17th annual William M. Hoeveler Awardees were two journalists whose reporting has exemplified these qualities, Patricia Borns and Jenny Staletovich. Patricia Borns is a social justice reporter whose work has changed lives and laws. She currently reports for USA Today Network. Jenny Staletovich has been a journalist working in Florida for nearly 20 years. She covered the environment, climate change and hurricanes for the Miami Herald. Staletovich is currently an Environmental Reporter with WLRN News. n
Lawyers in Leadership Award The Lawyers in Leadership Award honors outstanding members of the bar and bench distinguished by their dedication to ethics and civic leadership. In 2018, CEPS honored The Florida Justice Institute, Inc. (FJI). FJI is a nonprofit public interest law firm that conducts civil rights litigation and advocacy in the areas of prisoners’ rights, housing discrimination, disability discrimination, and other areas that impact the lives of Florida’s poor and disenfranchised. FJI brings large-scale, systemic civil rights litigation throughout the state of Florida. In 2019, CEPS honored Judge Jacqueline Becerra. Judge Becerra received her undergraduate degree from the University of Miami in 1991, and her law degree from Yale Law School in 1994. Upon graduation from law school, Judge Becerra joined the Honors Program at the United States Department of Justice where she served as a Trial Attorney in Civil Division. In 1997, she become an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Colombia, and later joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida. In 2004, she joined the law firm of Greenberg Traurig LLP as a shareholder. Judge Becerra was sworn as a U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Florida in January 2019. n
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Professor Alfieri’s scholarship in the fields of civil rights and poverty law continues through several new articles and essays—Black, Poor, and Gone: Civil Rights Law’s Inner-City Crisis, 54 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 629 (2019); The Poverty of Clinical Canonic Texts, 25 Clinical L. Rev. 53 (2019), and Race, Legal Representation, and Identity-Conscious Ethics, in The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States (forthcoming 2020). In addition to teaching courses on Civil Procedure I & II, and seminars on Law Firm Ethics, Leadership, & Management and Legal Malpractice, Professor Alfieri serves as a board member of the Coconut Grove Ministerial Alliance of Black Churches, the St. Paul Community Development Corporation, the Coconut Grove Village West Housing and Community Development Task Force, and GRACE, Inc. (Grove Rights and Community Equity).
Natalie Barefoot
Natalie Barefoot is the Director of the EJC and a Lecturer in Law. She has been selected as one of the inaugural 2019-20 Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy Faculty Scholars. Natalie brings with her a range of international and domestic experience including as Executive Director of Cet Law, which works to further the protection of whales, dolphins and porpoises and their ocean habitats; Programme Officer with UN Environment based in Geneva, Switzerland; Attorney-at-Law with Hogan Lovells US LLP; and prior to her legal career, as Financial Specialist/ Program Manager with Pact, Inc., based in Washington, DC and Harare, Zimbabwe. Natalie is a Member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and is an avid paddleboarder, SCUBA diver, and whale and dolphin watcher.
Daniela Tagtachian
Daniela Tagtachian is the EJCs inaugural Mysun Foundation Fellow and a Lecturer in Law. Daniela is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan Law School. Before law school, Daniela served as the Lead Researcher for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. During law school, Daniela interned for the Office of the United Nations 8 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW Volume 17: Fall 2018 – Fall 2019
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High Commissioner for Human Rights’ Women’s Rights and Gender Section in Geneva. After law school, Daniela received a fellowship to work with the Slave Labor and Human Trafficking Clinic at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil. Upon returning to the United States, she joined Hogan Lovells US LLP as a Litigation and International Arbitration Associate. In 2018, Daniela was recognized with the Dr. King Drum Major Award from PUSH for Excellence for her contributions to education and social justice as a lecturer and a civil rights/poverty lawyer.
Abigail Fleming
Abigail Fleming is a part-time lecturer of the Environmental Justice Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law. Abigail provides litigation support for two of the Clinic’s class action toxic tort cases, Miller, et al. v. City of Fort Myers, et al. and Styles, et al. v. City of Miami, et al. Abigail graduated from Georgia College and State University (B.A. in Political Science) where she interned for the Georgia House of Representatives. After graduation, Abigail served as a member of Teach for America and worked with multiple non-profits that focused on combating the effects of poverty. She also graduated from the University of Miami School of Law where she worked as a Fellow for the Environmental Justice Clinic, Writing Dean’s Fellow for the Academic Achievement Program, and Research Assistant to Professor Anthony Alfieri. Abigail is currently a partner at Traibel Fleming.
Faculty & Staff CEPS
Edith Georgi
Edith Georgi is a Senior Fellow with CEPS, working in the Historic Black Church Program [HBCP] since fall of 2018. After 35 years as an Assistant Public Defender, Edith pursued the study of religion at Florida International University, receiving her MA degree in December of 2018. Her legal career as well as this recent graduate work led her to involvement with area churches and consequently the HBCP. Edith has taught as an adjunct at Miami Law and St. Thomas Law School in the fields of litigation skills and capital punishment. A graduate of Wellesley College, Edith pursued graduate studies at Indiana University (MA 1976) and then law school at University of Miami (JD 1981).
Jane Moscowitz
Jane Moscowitz is a Senior Fellow with CEPS, working with the Historic Black Church Program (HBCP) in her specialty of voter’s rights. She began her law career as a federal prosecutor, first in Washington DC, then Baltimore, and then in Miami, after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1977. Before law school she studied accounting and computer science and worked as a computer programmer. In 1987, she left the US Attorneys’ Office in Miami to join Steel Hector and Davis and after five years there, started her own practice. For the past almost twenty years, she and her husband Norman have been in practice together. They focus on white collar criminal defense and related complex commercial litigation. She is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Association of Trial Lawyers. She is active in the American Bar Association and various local civic organizations. She and Norman have two daughters: Ariela, who is the Director of Community Relations for Americans for Immigrant Justice and Anna, who is a resident in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas in Dallas.
Lauren Madigan
Lauren Madigan joined the Center for Ethics and Public Service in 2017 as Senior Program Manager after spending six years managing the LawWithoutWalls program at Miami Law. As the driver of the Center for Ethics & Public Service, Lauren manages all Center day-today activities as well as being instrumental in planning for the future of the Center and all of its programs. Lauren serves as the main point of contact for all of the Center’s community partnerships including civic associations, faith-based groups, church congregations, and tenant and homeowner organizations. Lauren is also the Senior Program Manager for the Environmental Justice Clinic. Lauren graduated cum laude from Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C., with a Bachelor’s degree in Drama and Speech. She also studied design at the University of California, Los Angeles and is a certified DISC trainer. Lauren was a member of the Junior League of Baltimore, where she served as Chairwoman of the Parental Engagement Program. A program designed to increase parental involvement in Baltimore City Public Schools and improve children’s academic performance by creating self-sufficient Parent Teacher Organizations. Lauren is also a member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors’ Equity Association.
Ebonie Carter
Ebonie Carter has been with the Center for Ethics & Public Service for the past 9 years as the Center’s Administrative Assistant. She came to us from Foley & Larder serving as their Lead Customer Service Associate. Ebonie is hands on with much of the day-to-day operations of the Center and is closely involved with our Fellows and Interns, assisting and guiding them throughout their time with the Center.
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CENTER AWARDS UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW EXEMPLARY SERVICE TO THE POOR AWARD Abigail Fleming, 3L Fellow Environmental Justice Clinic 2019 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW EXEMPLARY SERVICE TO THE POOR AWARD Alex Meyer, 3L Fellow Environmental Justice Clinic 2019 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW INNOVATIVE SERVICE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST Maddie Seales, 2L Fellow Environmental Justice Clinic 2019 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW EXEMPLARY SERVICE TO THE POOR AWARD Kiana Courtney, 3L Fellow Environmental Justice Clinic 2018 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW EXEMPLARY SERVICE TO THE POOR AWARD Daniel Hales, 3L Fellow Environmental Justice Clinic 2018 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW EXEMPLARY SERVICE TO THE POOR AWARD Jennifer Ledig, 3L Fellow Environmental Justice Clinic 2018 MIAMI COALITION OF CHRISTIANS AND JEWS SILVER MEDALLION AWARD Alison Kasney, Interdisciplinary Intern Environmental Justice Clinic 2018 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW EXEMPLARY SERVICE TO THE POOR AWARD Ellen Degnan, 2L Intern Environmental Justice Clinic 2017
G.W. CARVER HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY RECOGNITION AWARD Historic Black Church Program 2014 MIAMI NEW TIMES “MIAMI PEOPLE 2014” Professor Anthony V. Alfieri 2014 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW INNOVATIVE SERVICE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST AWARD Oral History Project Historic Black Church Program 2012 THE MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE OF COCONUT GROVE BLACK CHURCHES APPRECIATION AWARD Historic Black Church Program 2011 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW INNOVATIVE SERVICE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST AWARD Historic Black Church Program 2009 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW INNOVATIVE SERVICE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST AWARD Community Economic Development & Design Program 2007 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS WILLIAM PINCUS AWARD 2007 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS FATHER ROBERT DRINAN AWARD 2007 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN LAW SCHOOLS GARY BELLOW SCHOLAR AWARD 2004-2005 NATIONAL LEADERSHIP HONOR SOCIETY OMICRON DELTA KAPPA AWARD 2002
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW EXEMPLARY SERVICE TO THE POOR AWARD Brittany Thomas, 2L Intern 2017
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY COMMISSION ON ETHICS & PUBLIC TRUST ARETE AWARD 2001
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW EXEMPLARY SERVICE TO THE POOR AWARD Stephanie Rosendorf, 3L Fellow Environmental Justice Clinic 2016
THE FLORIDA BAR SEVENTH ANNUAL PROFESSIONALISM AWARD 2000
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FLORIDA SUPREME COURT FACULTY PROFESSIONALISM AWARD 1999 AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION E. SMYTHE GAMBRELL PROFESSIONALISM AWARD 1998
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Welcome to the 2019-2020 academic year at the Center for Ethics and Public Service! Thanks to the generous, continuing support of our long-standing friends and supporters, the fall marks our 24th year of service to the university, the bar and bench, and the anti-poverty and civil rights community. Today the Center’s continuing work in ethics and public service encompasses new legal malpractice, professional liability, and law practice management training programs through our Legal Profession Roundtables as well as innovative civic and community engagement programs through our Historic Black Church Program and Community Equity Lab. Staffed by law student and university graduate student fellows, the programs exemplify our ongoing commitment to clinical education and experiential learning, interdisciplinary research, policy innovation, and advocacy in collaboration with underserved communities in the fields of civil rights, community development, poverty law, and public health. Thanks again for your support of our young citizen lawyers. Professor Anthony V. Alfieri Founder and Director
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OUR MISSION Founded in 1996, the Center for Ethics and Public Service (CEPS) is an interdisciplinary education, skills training, and community engagement program devoted to the values of ethical judgment, professional responsibility, and public service in law and society. Our goal is to educate law students to serve their communities as citizen lawyers. The Center operates three programs: the Historic Black Church Program, the Legal Profession Roundtable Program, and the Community Equity, Innovation, and Resource Lab. The Programs collaborate with schools across the University of Miami as well as the Florida bar and bench, civil rights and environmental organizations, faith-based groups, nonprofit corporations, and civic and neighborhood associations. Since 1996, CEPS has trained over 1,297 fellows and interns, and served over 47,000 members of the Florida community.
CEPS DIRECTOR Professor Anthony V. Alfieri. SR. PROGRAM MANAGER Lauren Madigan ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Ebonie L. Carter HBCP FELLOWS Edith Georgi Jane Moscowitz
EJC DIRECTOR Natalie Barefoot MYSUN FOUNDATION FELLOW Daniela Tagtachian PART-TIME LECTURER Abigail Fleming SR. PROGRAM MANAGER Lauren Madigan ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Ebonie L. Carter
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