HRP Awards 2024 Summer Fellows
HRP is pleased to award its 2024 summer fellowships to Elizabeth (Liz) Poulos JD’25 (left in photo above) and Zoe Olbrys JD’26 (right).
Summer fellowships for human rights internships are a central part of the Harvard Law School human rights experience and provide rich professional, personal, and intellectual opportunities. Many students and alumnae/i who are committed to human rights were introduced to the field through an internship. Interns work for at least eight weeks with nongovernmental or intergovernmental organizations advancing human rights.
You can find the bios of this year’s summer fellows below.
Elizabeth (Liz) Poulos JD’25 will work with Global Labor Justice, supporting their labor rights advocacy, international litigation, and multi-union multinational organizing campaigns of garment workers, agricultural workers, and service workers. Liz will collaborate with GLJ advocates and attorneys to provide strategic legal representation for workers organizing for collective action, demanding justice for labor rights violations, and building worker power beyond borders. Before law school, Liz pursued a masters in Religion, Ethics, & Politics at Harvard Divinity School, while organizing for immigrant rights and worker justice with Promise Arizona as a Presidential Public Service Fellow. Before studying at Harvard, Liz served as an English Teaching Fellow in the banlieue of Paris and coordinated migrant worker justice programming through Serve the City Paris. Liz holds a B.A. in History with a specialization in political and social theory and a certificate in French from Williams College.
Zoe Olbrys JD’26 will intern with the California Department of Justice in Los Angeles, working with the Civil Rights Enforcement Section to promote and protect federal and state civil and constitutional rights. Her interests include reproductive and economic justice, political theory, and the intersection of law with religion and technology. At Harvard, Zoe worked with the UN Independent Expert on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity to examine discriminatory legislation and international human rights violations. She holds a B.A. in Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law and History from the University of Virginia, where her research focused on crisis pregnancy centers, digilantism, and the Equal Rights Amendment.
