Kelsey Gunvalson

Gunvalson will serve as the Native American Housing Rights and Elder Outreach Fellow at Judicare Legal Aid this summer. She will help to address the unique challenges faced by Native American Communities in Wisconsin and empower Native American elders and tribal benefits specialists by providing comprehensive education on the post-pandemic changes in public benefits and ensuring access to stable housing through legal advocacy in tribal courts.

Quinn Rumler

Rumler will join the Employment/Re-entry Project at Legal Action of Wisconsin, where he will help to reduce barriers to employment for people living at or below the poverty line. Rumler will focus on advising people on the status of their driver’s license, litigating to lift driver’s license suspensions, and establishing reasonable payment or community service plans. He will also be involved in criminal record correction and expungement work. 

Christin Watkins

Watkins will assist with the Preventing Rental Evictions Program (PREP) at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services. Watkins will participate in meetings between landlords, tenants, and the PREP navigators to resolve disputes, and help represent tenants being evicted in formal eviction actions. 

Rural communities in the United States and its territories face a shortage of lawyers, with a large population forced to travel hundreds of miles to find legal assistance. Last year, fellows helped 2,194 people.

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