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2015 Scolnik Award Recipient: Sara Gagné-Holmes
Sara Gagné-Holmes is a Senior Program Associate with the John T. Gorman Foundation, where she works to advance ideas and opportunities that can improve the lives of disadvantaged people in Maine. Prior to joining the Foundation, Sara served for eight years as the Executive Director of Maine Equal Justice Partners, a nonprofit, civil legal aid and advocacy organization representing individuals with low income in the courts, before administrative agencies, and in the legislature. Under Gagné-Holmes, MEJP joined with the ACLU of Maine in Juma v. Mayhew, on behalf of Maine immigrants wrongly denied access to General Assistance, and Bruns v. Mayhew, on behalf of an immigrant denied MaineCare coverage.
Featured Speaker: Daniel L. Greenberg
Danny Greenberg is Special Counsel for Pro Bono Initiatives at Schulte Roth & Zabel, a position he designed to provide legal assistance to the poor by strategic partnerships with targeted international, national and local organizations. For the last seven years he has collaborated with our colleagues at the New York Civil Liberties Union in an historic indigent defense case, Hurrell-Harring v. New York, a recently settled class-action that alleged denial of counsel in five counties in upstate New York. He was also counsel in McWaters v. FEMA, a class-action filed in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina that stopped all evictions from FEMA Hotels after the hurricane.