Soros Justice Fellowships

Southern Center for Human Rights

A grant to combine capital and civil litigation, grassroots organizing, and media outreach in order to draw attention to injustices experienced by minorities in the criminal justice system. The project will address police and prosecutorial misconduct and racial discrimination in jury selection, and engage community members to increase jury participation of communities of color in Georgia and Alabama.

Upon graduation from Yale University, Sudeall worked at a community development venture firm in San Francisco that advises and finances businesses based in low-income communities in the Bay Area. In 2005, she graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she served as Treasurer of the Harvard Law Review and authored a note entitled "Effectively Ineffective: The Failure of Courts to Address Underfunded Indigent Defense Systems." While in law school, Sudeall represented indigent defendants in municipal court as part of the Criminal Justice Institute, served as a teaching fellow for the undergraduate course "History of the Warren Court," co-founded and co-chaired the Multiracial Law Students Association, and was a member of the Black Law Students Association and the Gary Bellow Public Service Award Committee. After law school, she served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then as a law clerk to Justice John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Atlanta, GA |  1 Year |