Research by Student Interns

The Center engages students in a variety of ways: supporting student-run projects (like the Community Empowerment Fund and Poverty Awareness Week); hiring students as research assistants or interns/externs during the school year and over the summer; and overseeing independent study or pro bono projects.

In the past, students have examined the Earned Income Tax Credit, educational equity and high poverty schools, expanding the right to a lawyer in civil cases, unemployment insurance, and the effects of the Citizens United decision, among other issues.

Student work from previous years

• Jared Elosta: Options for Expanding EITC Eligibility in NC
• Catherine Lane: High Poverty Schools
• Joseph Polich: Access to Justice
• Vanesa Hernandez: Legislative Changes to the Food Stamp Program
• Jennifer Lozano: White Paper on the North Carolina State Earned Income Tax Credit: Where It Is and Where it Can Be
• Jabeen Ahmad: Civil Right to Counsel in North Carolina
• Tarik Jallad: A Civil Right to Counsel: International and National Trends
• Kelley Gondring: Access to Civil Justice in North Carolina