Valenda Applegarth 2016 Gail Burns-Smith Excellence in Victim Services Award Valenda is a Senior Staff Attorney at Greater Boston Legal Services in Boston, Massachusetts, and founder of the nation’s first Relocation Counseling Project. Ms. Applegarth has represented...
Jessica Rhodes Intern Jessica is a senior at Portland State University studying criminology and criminal justice. She began volunteering at NCVLI in the summer of 2015 and interned during the Fall and Spring of 2016. She told us a little about her experience as an...
Crew Janci LLP Pro Bono Although based in Portland, Oregon, the law firm of Crew Janci LLP provides tenacious advocacy and expert advice for crime victims in civil cases in Oregon and around the country. They are currently representing 25 victims of sexual abuse in...
Sarah Einowski Pro Bono Pro bono attorneys play an invaluable role in NCVLI’s work protecting, enforcing, and advancing victims’ rights. Sarah Einowski, an attorney in Oregon, recently partnered with us to provide pro bono legal services to a crime victim. Read on to...
Scout Brobst Intern Scout is a recent high school graduate who is taking a gap year. She spent her years in high school dedicated to activism within her community and internationally through an online platform. Scout currently works at a local Women’s Center in the...
Maloney Lauersdorf Reiner PC Pro Bono Based in Portland, Oregon, Maloney Lauersdorf Reiner PC handles all aspects of litigation, from pre-suit demand through trial and appeal. The firm’s founders - FJ Maloney, Andy Lauersdorf, and Tony Reiner - are former prosecutors...
Pauliina Heikkonen Intern Pauliina visited from Finland to intern with NCVLi in the Winter of 2016 and will be beginning law school later this year. She told us a little about her experience as an intern at NCVLI. What did you know about victims’ rights before...
Lisa Zauner Board Spotlight Lisa Zauner is an Audit Senior Manager at Perkins & Company. Why did you first get interested in working with NCVLI and victims’ rights?In my early twenties while serving in the Army I was the victim in an armed robbery. The experience,...
Jennifer Storm Board Spotlight Jennifer Storm is an award-winning author who serves as the Victim Advocate for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Why did you first get interested in working with NCVLI and victims’ rights?I met Meg at an OVC training in South Carolina...
Dmitriy Golosinskiy Volunteer Dmitriy Golosinskiy began volunteering for NCVLI in the Fall of 2014 during his first year at Lewis & Clark School of Law. He told us a little about his experience as a volunteer at NCVLI. What did you know about victims’ rights...
