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Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow and
in 2000 the Michigan Lawyers Weekly
named her Lawyer of the Year. She has
taught at the University of Michigan
School of Public Health and Wayne
State University Law School in Detroit.

The Obama Factor
Moss foresees that new President
Barack Obama's administration will
back stricter enforcement of civil
rights laws and demand more qual-
ity in the work coming out of the
Department of Justice.
"I anticipate we will be proud
of his choices of people [for future
openings on the Supreme Court and
federal bench] who will recognize the
Constitution and the limits of govern-

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ment power."
However, the verdict is still out, she
says, on how the new administration
will handle the issues of government
surveillance, racial profiling, the
Patriot Act and FBI guidelines that
took effect Dec. 1.
The new guidelines extend the reach
of the border patrol from the actual
border crossings between the U.S. and
Canada to the entire state of Michigan.
"We will continue to see real chal-
lenges around the efforts to combat
terrorism:' Moss says. "We'll have to
see what the Obama administration
does. It will take a lot of work to repair
the damage Li

Despite the economic climate in
Michael Steinberg, the ACLU's
Michigan, the ACLU of Michigan
legal director.
recently hired two new staff attor-
"They do it not just through an
neys, young and Jewish,
incredible teaching method,
with star-like legal cre-
but through example,"
dentials.
Rossman says.
Jessie Rossman,
"I had the good fortune
27, a Boston native,
to have some grandparents
graduated magna cum
who really did live their
laude from both Yale
entire life by example. I
University and Harvard
was pretty impressed I was
Law School. She recent- Jessie
able to find an employment
Rossman
ly finished a Ninth
situation that would do the
Circuit Court clerkship.
same thing."
She has also worked for
Rossman lives in Ann
two human rights
Arbor, which she had heard
organizations in Israel.
a lot about from her par-
Dan Korobkin, 29,
ents who both attended the
who grew up in Ann
University of Michigan.
Arbor, graduated with
"I'm from Michigan, but
highest honors from
for sure the only reason I
Dan Korob kin
Swarthmore College in
came back was for this job,"
Pennsylvania where he
says Korobkin, who moved
was a Truman Scholar. He received
back to Ann Arbor. "If you can find
his law degree from Yale where he
a really great job in the legal pro-
was senior editor of the Yale Law
fession, you just better take it."
Review and executive editor of the
Korobkin's internship was in
Yale Law and Policy Review. He
the late '90s, while he was still an
has clerked for judges at the U.S.
undergraduate and the Michigan
District Court for the District of
ACLU was a much smaller organi-
Alabama and the Second Circuit.
zation. "It's come up such a long
Both did summer internships
way because of Kary's persistence,
under Kary Moss, executive direc-
vision and bold leadership," he says.
tor of the Michigan ACLU.
"I came back to do work that
"I wanted to be inspired," says
makes a difference in people's
Rossman, as her reason for sign-
lives," he says. "Kary tries to get
ing on with the Michigan ACLU.
us to stay connected to the com-
A large part of the inspiration,
munity."
she says, stems from Moss and
- Judith Doner Berne