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Former Williams Institute Fellows

	Adam Romero, 2007-2008 Peter J. Cooper Public Policy Fellow Adam Romero holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he won the Kelley Prize and was Coker Fellow, a director of the Complex Federal Litigation Clinic, and an editor of several law journals. Adam received his A.B., summa cum laude, from Cornell University, where his honors thesis won the Sherman-Bennett Prize, the LGB Studies Prize, and the Einhorn Prize. Adam has published in the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism and is Co-Editor with Martha Albertson Fineman and Jack Jackson of Feminist and Queer Legal Theory: Intimate Encounters, Uncomfortable Conversations (forthcoming 2008). During his year at the Williams Institute, Adam's research focused on family failure and, in particular, the experience of disabled adults who live disconnected from family. Adam will clerk for Judge Margaret McKeown of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals during the 2008-2009 term, and for Judge Shira Scheindlin of the Southern District of New York during the 2009-2010 term.
	Christian Cooper, 2007 Research Fellow Christian Cooper graduated with honors from the University of Southern California in 1998 with a degree in Spanish and international relations. Before attending Loyola Law School, he produced and edited on-air features and the websites for two nationally-syndicated public radio shows, was involved in the launch of Univision.com, and was a writer and editor for the Recording Academy, home of the Grammy Awards and Latin Grammys. Christian was the president of Loyola’s gay/straight alliance and competed in the first-ever National Sexual Orientation Moot Court Competition at UCLA. While at Loyola, he clerked at the HIV & AIDS Legal Services Alliance, Lambda Legal, the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office and the United States Attorney’s Office. At the Williams Institute, Christian conducted a multilingual study of HIV discrimination in dental care in Los Angeles County. Christian is now a campaign manager in San Francisco.
	Cliff Rosky, 2007 Law Teaching Fellow Cliff Rosky writes on family law, antidiscrimination law, and criminal law, with a focus on the intersections of gender, sexuality, and violence. Before joining the Williams Institute, Cliff was an associate at the law firms of Covington & Burling and Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, where he focused on criminal and pro bono matters, including the reform of child molestation statutes and the representation of human sex trafficking victims. Cliff received his B.A. from Amherst College with honors in Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude. His honors thesis won the Robert Cover Prize and the Law & Society Association’s Prize for Best Undergraduate Paper. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he served as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities and the Irving S. Ribicoff Postgraduate Research Fellow. His current research analyzes the significance of gender in more than 200 family law opinions involving gay, lesbian and bisexual parents. His writing has appeared in the Connecticut Law Review. Cliff is now a law professor at the S.J Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah.
	Dean Spade, 2006-2008 Law Teaching Fellow In 2002, Dean Spade founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project (www.srlp.org), a non-profit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and/or people of color. SRLP also engages in litigation, policy reform and public education on issues affecting these communities. Dean received his J.D. from UCLA Law School. He has taught classes focusing on sexual orientation, gender identity and law at Columbia and Harvard Law Schools. Dean's writing has appeared in the Berkeley Women's Law Journal, the Harvard Lesbian and Gay Review, the Widener Law Review, the Chicano Latino Law Review, the Georgetown Journal of Gender and Law and several anthologies. Full biographical sketch including list of publications Dean is currently a law professor at the Seattle University School of Law.
	Amanda Baumle, 2007-2008 Public Policy Fellow Amanda K. Baumle, J.D., Ph.D., specializes in demography, social inequality, and the sociology of law. Prior to obtaining her Ph.D. in sociology at Texas A&M University, she earned a J.D. from the University of Texas and practiced labor and employment law. Her current research explores issues involving the demography of sexual orientation, labor demography, and gender inequality in the legal practice. In these areas, she has published a variety of books, articles, and book chapters examining issues of inequality and discrimination, as well as the manner in which the law might be activated as a means to challenge existing inequalities. She recently completed a coauthored book, The Demography of Sexual Orientation, which draws on 2000 U.S. Census data to examine the manner in which sexual orientation affects a variety of demographic processes. Amanda is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Houston.
	Danielle MacCartney, 2006-2007 Public Policy Fellow Danielle MacCartney earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Irvine. Her dissertation analyzed the effect of both geographic location and occupation percent female on the wages of cohabiting gays and lesbians, and also analyzed levels of family inequality in married, heterosexual cohabiting, and homosexual cohabiting couples. Her research interests while at the Williams Institute included wage and labor market differences by race, class, gender, and sexual orientation, focusing on occupational characteristics such as occupational percent female and occupational status. Danielle is currently in a tenure-track position, teaching Sociology at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.
	Rebecca Stotzer, 2006-2007 Public Policy Fellow After earning her B.A. in Psychology and English from Carnegie Mellon University, Rebecca spent her Master’s in Social Work internship at the American Red Cross of Washtenaw County, where she specialized in Community Programming and Health and Safety Services. She came to the Williams Institute following the completion of her joint Ph.D. in Social Work and Psychology from the University of Michigan, where her dissertation focused on how threats to masculinity encourage men to commit acts of violence against gay men. Her research included analyzing patterns of hate crime offenses, determining factors that generate positive attitudes toward the LGBT community among heterosexuals, and exploring the role of stereotypes in predicting types of violence for different categories of hate crime victims. Rebecca now holds an Associate Professor position at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where she teaches Social Work.
	Deborah Ho, 2006-2007 Public Policy Fellow A graduate of UCLA, Deborah Ho worked at the International Migration Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where she became interested in refugee issues. Deborah then went to study at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa on a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship where she conducted research on the South African asylum system anaylzing the shortcomings the country’s international legal obligations and practice. While in South Africa, she interned with the International Organization for Migration in Tirana, Albania shortly after the end of the conflict in Kosovo working on refugee resettlement and local development. Deborah decided to attend law school as a result of her experiences working with refugees in South Africa. While at UCLA Law, she interned with the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and served as the Editor-in-Chief of UCLA's Journal of Int'l Law & Foreign Affairs. Deborah graduated from UCLA in May 2006. After leaving the Williams Institute, Deborah clerked for the Honorable Judge Spencer Letts in the Central District of California.
	Holning S. Lau, 2006 - 2007 Harvey S. Shipley Miller Teaching Fellow Holning Lau researches and writes on antidiscrimination law, international human rights, and children's rights. While a law teaching fellow for the Williams Institute, he taught Law & Sexuality at the UCLA School of Law. Lau completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. He received his J.D. from the University of Chicago, where he served as the Executive Topics & Comments Editor of the University of Chicago Law Review and as a staff member of the Chicago Journal of International Law. At the University of Chicago, Lau was named a Stonewall Scholar for excellence in his work related to LGBT rights and was awarded the Ignacio Martín-Baró Award for the best human rights paper by a professional or master’s degree student. Full biographical sketch including list of publications Professor Lau now holds an Assistant Professor position at Hofstra Law School in New York, where he is also the Director of their LGBT Studies Program.
	Elizabeth Kukura, 2004 Public Policy Fellow Elizabeth Kukura came to the UCLA School of Law as the 2004 Public Policy Fellow. Ms. Kukura joined the Williams Institute after completing a M.Sc. in Human Rights from the London School of Economics (LSE). At the LSE, Ms. Kukura focused on international law, women's human rights and sexual orientation policy issues where she produced her Master's thesis on same-sex marriage and the definition of family under human rights law. Ms. Kukura is currently a student at New York University Law School.
	Zachary A. Kramer, 2004 Law Teaching Fellow Zachary A. Kramer was the first Williams Law Teaching Fellow. Professor Kramer received his B.A. from the University of Wisconsin (2001) and his J.D. from the University of Illinois College of Law (2004), where he was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Illinois Law Review (2003-04). At UCLA, Professor Kramer taught Law & Sexuality in the fall semester. Professor Kramer’s publications have appeared in the University of Illinois Law Review, the Seattle Journal for Social Justice, and the Chicago Tribune. Professor Kramer now holds an Assistant Professor position at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.