In Fellowship:

Through the help of PFCR staff, Carmen has been transferred from a frustrating educational setting to a neighborhood school where she is happy and progressing toward a high school diploma – and a brighter future.   Meet Carmen

The Sinsheimer Children’s Rights Fellowship

Current Recipient

Dalit Frieda Paradis has been selected as the first Sinsheimer Fellow. She will begin her one-year fellowship with PFCR in September 2008.

Ms. Paradis will graduate in May 2008 from the NYU School of Law, where she was honored with editorship of the Annual Survey of American Law and designated a Florence Allen Scholar for being in the top ten percent of her class. During law school, she served as a teaching assistant to Professor Jonathan Todres in The Lawyering Program, volunteered as a student advocate, and worked at the Unemployment Action Center.

During the summer of 2007, Ms. Paradis worked as a summer associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLC, where she participated in case strategizing and conducted research for an assortment of legal matters, including preparation of a Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) petition, research and case planning for an asylum petition, and drafting of cross-examination for use in a trial. The previous summer, 2006, she was a legal intern at PFCR (then Legal Services for Children, Inc.), where she worked on both special education and Supplemental Security Income disputes. Her prior work experience includes employment at a Head Start program in East Harlem and New Leaders for New Schools, a national organization that selects and trains individuals to become urban public school principals.

Ms. Paradis graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Psychology and studied in London for a semester. She is fluent in Hebrew and enjoys music, volleyball, and sewing.