The COVID-19 Rapid Response Systems Summer Institute was a 2019 a collaboration between the Justice Catalyst, People’s Parity Project and the Systemic Justice Project. It connected summer Fellows to over 50 legal organizations committed to systemic transformation. Additionally, the Systems Summer Institute Corps participated in several programming evens every week and put together a final project related to systemic injustices. Together, the Fellows and Corps comprised over 250 law students representing 71 law schools.
Our organizing committee
| Ashley Carter | David Vines | Deanna Pantin Parrish |
| Jacob Lipton | Jon Hanson | Molly Broderick |
| Molly Coleman | Sima Atri | Tanya Manoj |
Our speakers:
| Justin Hansford | Purvi Shah | Thomas Harvey | Matt Zernhelt | Alana Greer |
| Marlon Peterson | Ariel Eckblad | Kimberle´Crenshaw | Dr. Clint Smith | Josie Duffy Rice |
| Dean Strang | Bina Ahmad | Derecka Purnell | Whitney Benns | Sam Straus |
| Andrew Free |
Our fellows:
| Daniel Merchant | Kanika Sachdeva | Tom Qiu | Gio Leconte | Tyler Codina |
| Todd Fitch | Summer Durant | Raven Burks | Shabeena Sharak | Amaylah Israel |
| Bridget Roddy | Daniel Berchenko | Azi Portillo | Jane Brennan | Destin Germany |
| David Holton | Xena Hinson | Elizabeth Ingermann | Trillium Chang | Laila Abdelaziz |
| Jenn Cote | Brooke Tabolsky | Karen Ayala-Miranda | Allyson Neisig | Michael Bernardini |
| Christian Shaheen | Katarina Overberg | Ariana Moore | Ally Bock | Shanzay Pervaiz |
| Drew Keil | Melanie Kray | Sherry Mirza | Farhana Pathan | Jordan Greenburg |
| Kyla Howard | Osman Yasin | Audrey Wynne | Nathan Wexler | Davynn Brown |
| Oriana Alexander | Michael Abrams-Dyer | Jess Rempe | Pat Keogh | Ithamar Zacharie |
| Sara Hubaishi | Steve Kennedy | Jun Butel | Sarah Ahmed | Abdul Shahid |
| Alessandra Stevens | Chris Miller | Kylie Yapp | Jane Hong | Chloe Diaz |
| David Pina | Jody Stella | Natasha Bynum | Aasiyah Ali | Clarissa Iglesias |
| Ji Lee | Leanna Pohevitz | Alexis Solorzano | JoAnn Gonzalez | Melissa Berouty |
| Trish Dessai | Jamil Irvin | Moheb Keddis | Aleena Pasha | Byron Mobley |
| Daiquan Frasier | Victoria Johnson | Sam Karlin | Asha Burwell | Eden Moalem |
| Ben Considine | Keya Tartaglia | Alex Matak | Angeline Green | Austin Scherer |
| Ayesha Muzaffar | Bridget Connor Schiff | Clayton Smith | Eric Schumacher | Hannah Edge |
| Jimmy Taylor | Louise Phan | Collin Yeung | Dalia Safadi | Laura Trevisani |
| Meagan DeSimone | Melissa Rodney | Ryan McLeod | Chris Creech | Cory Sands |
| Jordan Michel | Valerie Lopez | Vanessa Rascon | Alia Joseph | Jeremy Padow |
| Kat Lozah | Abi Donovan | Eddie Ford | Jen Kopp | Mi Tran |
| Brittney Ewing | Holly Black | Sarah Rosenthal | Abigail Reid | Lu Bai |
| Alex Frey | Allie Band | Bobbi Miller | Romae Aquino | Tom Chen |
| Henry Strickland |
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