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Alumni Spotlight: 2006 PILI Intern, Kate Pomper
For Kate Pomper, a PILI Internship was an important step on her path to a career in public interest law. As an Intern with the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Pomper worked primarily on impact litigation cases to preserve subsidized housing and to challenge a procedure resulting in the wrongful termination of individuals’ Medicaid coverage. Pomper feels her time at the Shriver Center gave her a valuable introduction to impact litigation, and she has “great memories of my whole experience as a PILI Intern – I learned a tremendous amount, had the opportunity to work on meaningful cases, and met people I continue to respect and admire.”  During her 2L summer, Pomper worked with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago in their South Side office. There she represented clients in connection with housing and social security benefits cases and assisted with preparation for a trial in a subsidized housing eviction. Since graduating from law school in 2008, Pomper has been working as a Polikoff-Gautreaux Fellow at Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI). Her role there includes advocating for compassionate, just and effective revitalization of Chicago’s public housing communities and for political reform in Illinois. “My experience working at the Shriver Center as a PILI Intern is really what inspired my dedication to housing issues, which continues through my work today at BPI,” says Pomper.

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