The First Generation Civil Rights Fellowship Program, or FirstGEN, is a paid summer program for undergraduate students who are the first in their immediate families to attend college and who intend to pursue careers in social justice. Our mission is to identify and support first generation college students as they emerge into tomorrow’s leaders.
Fellows serve as summer interns with a FirstGEN Fellowship partner: the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Advancing Justice | AAJC, or the National Immigration Law Center (NILC). During the course of their internships, fellows receive hands-on experience advocating for civil rights, participate in training and professional development seminars, and join a growing community of emerging leaders in the FirstGEN Alumni Network.
The deadline to apply for the 2023 FirstGEN Fellowship has closed.
For more information, email us at firstgen@lawyerscommittee.org
FirstGEN Alumni
Jasmyne Brown
Spelman College
Victoria Cadostin
Barnard College
Batool Ibrahim
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Emma Ann Taverner
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Jeniffer Velazquez
University of Southern California
Natalie Tran
Middlebury College
Claudia Theagene
SUNY Plattsburgh
Sonia Paz Canton
Georgetown University
Rabiya Ismail
Tufts University
Nghi Lam
Colorado College
Kennedi Holloway
Ohio State University
Brittany Christian
Bridgewater State University
Sykina Butts
Delta State University
Alexia Sanchez Garcia
The University of Iowa
Melissa Denizard
Babson College
Mikael Morelion
Brown University
Lara Adekeye
Boston University
Rula Thabata
Loyola University New Orleans
Cindy Reyes
University of Pennsylvania
Tauheed Islam
Harvard University
Alondra Vazquez Lopez
Yale University
Jazmine Lahbabi
University of California, Irvine
Berenice Davila Gonzalez
Berea College
Leslie Diaz
University of California, Los Angeles
Veronica Fernandez-Diaz
Colorado College
Deborah Johnson
Oberlin College
Nahlee Lin
Pomona College
America Morales
Wesleyan University
Rhajaa Wright
Duke University
Daisy Almonte
Duke University
Angelica Mercado
Mount Holyoke College
Melinda Nguyen
University of California, Santa Barbara
Jennifer Quan
Tulane University
Megan Brookens
University of Pennsylvania
Sanah Jivani
University of Texas, San Antonio
Dianne Kaiyoorawongs
Yale University
Raymond Magsaysay
Vassar College
Renata Mauriz
Brown University
Karla Davis
MidAmerica Nazarene University
Nirvana Felix
University of California, Berkeley
Genesis Garfio
Columbia University
Juan Rangel
University of Notre Dame
Isaura Amezcua
Georgetown University
Rafael Medina
University of California, Los Angeles
Mayra Melendez
Salisbury University
Lorenza Ramirez
Tufts University
Teofanny Saragi
Pomona College
Emily Taing
University of California, Los Angeles
Karen Vallejos
Southwestern Adventist University
Tania Chairez
University of Pennsylvania
Najaah Daniels
St. John’s University