Professor Alfieri’s scholarship in the fields of civil rights and poverty law continues through several new articles and essays—Black, Poor, and Gone: Civil Rights Law’s Inner-City Crisis, 54 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 629 (2019); The Poverty of Clinical Canonic Texts, 25 Clinical L. Rev. 53 (2019), and Race, Legal Representation, and Identity-Conscious Ethics, in The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States (forthcoming 2020). In addition to teaching courses on Civil Procedure I & II, and seminars on Law Firm Ethics, Leadership, & Management and Legal Malpractice, Professor Alfieri serves as a board member of the Coconut Grove Ministerial Alliance of Black Churches, the St. Paul Community Development Corporation, the Coconut Grove Village West Housing and Community Development Task Force, and GRACE, Inc. (Grove Rights and Community Equity).
Natalie Barefoot
Natalie Barefoot is the Director of the EJC and a Lecturer in Law. She has been selected as one of the inaugural 2019-20 Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy Faculty Scholars. Natalie brings with her a range of international and domestic experience including as Executive Director of Cet Law, which works to further the protection of whales, dolphins and porpoises and their ocean habitats; Programme Officer with UN Environment based in Geneva, Switzerland; Attorney-at-Law with Hogan Lovells US LLP; and prior to her legal career, as Financial Specialist/ Program Manager with Pact, Inc., based in Washington, DC and Harare, Zimbabwe. Natalie is a Member of the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and is an avid paddleboarder, SCUBA diver, and whale and dolphin watcher.
Daniela Tagtachian
Daniela Tagtachian is the EJCs inaugural Mysun Foundation Fellow and a Lecturer in Law. Daniela is a graduate of the University of Chicago and the University of Michigan Law School. Before law school, Daniela served as the Lead Researcher for the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. During law school, Daniela interned for the Office of the United Nations 8 UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW Volume 17: Fall 2018 – Fall 2019
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Abigail Fleming
Abigail Fleming is a part-time lecturer of the Environmental Justice Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law. Abigail provides litigation support for two of the Clinic’s class action toxic tort cases, Miller, et al. v. City of Fort Myers, et al. and Styles, et al. v. City of Miami, et al. Abigail graduated from Georgia College and State University (B.A. in Political Science) where she interned for the Georgia House of Representatives. After graduation, Abigail served as a member of Teach for America and worked with multiple non-profits that focused on combating the effects of poverty. She also graduated from the University of Miami School of Law where she worked as a Fellow for the Environmental Justice Clinic, Writing Dean’s Fellow for the Academic Achievement Program, and Research Assistant to Professor Anthony Alfieri. Abigail is currently a partner at Traibel Fleming.