Valarie Kaur (Founding Director) is an award-winning filmmaker, public speaker, and writer in her third year at Yale Law School. In the last ten years, she has harnessed multiple tools – filmmaking, writing, speaking and lawyering – to advocate on behalf of communities swept up in...

Sharat Raju has won more than twenty awards as a filmmaker since graduating with honors from The American Film Institute’s renowned directing program. His Masters Thesis film, American Made, quickly became an international phenomenon as it tore through the film festival circuit in 2004-05, winning awards...

Jane Cooper, JD '13, graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University in 2007 where she studied Political Science and Sociology. After graduation, Jane worked for three years at Columbia Law School’s Social Justice Initiatives program where she worked with faculty, students, and graduates on themes of public...

Allyssa Lamb grew up in the suburbs of Seattle, and attended the University of Washington. She graduated magna cum laude in 2004 with B.A.s in Classics and Ancient Near East Studies. Allyssa attended Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship. She was a member of Merton College, and...

Aseem Mehta is in his second year at Yale College, studying Ethics, Politics & Economics. He has focused on understanding the link between public health, international law and human rights, having spent time in Cairo, Egypt. His activities at Yale have included researching HIV intervention strategies...

Eric Parrie, JD ’13, came to YLS from New Orleans and enjoys a variety of rebellious endeavors at the law school. He joined the Visual Law Project in the fall of 2011 and has served as writer, interviewer, producer, editor for the team. In addition to...

Ivy Wang, JD 2013, joined the Visual Law Project in Fall 2010 as an affiliate, and has served as writer, producer, and interviewer. Prior to law school, she co-produced and directed Guanzhou Modernized, a short documentary for the Asia Society on the fate of a Chinese...