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  • Morris Dees
    Morris Dees: 'You Hold the Keys to Justice'
    RWU Law celebrates Commencement 2013 with famed civil rights attorney Morris Dees and Superior Court Presiding Justice Alice Gibney.
  • Ustream
    Live Stream of Commencement!
    The School of Law’s Commencement will be available via live feed during the ceremony for family, friends and media unable to be present at the ceremony.
  • Commencement
    Commencement 2013!
    Civil rights pioneer Morris Dees will address the Class of 2013 and receive an honorary degree during Commencement exercises on Friday, May 17.


Eliza Vorenberg

Eliza Vorenberg
Director ProBono Collaborative
Contact:
401-254-4597

Eliza Vorenberg is the Director of our Pro Bono Collaborative. Eliza is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College (1983) and Columbia Law School (1990) and clerked for Massachusetts Supreme Court Justice Herbert P. Wilkins. She has extensive experience in public interest law, the private sector, academia, and conflict resolution.

Her previous experience includes litigating employment and civil rights actions, investigating complaints of discrimination against faculty at UCLA and conducting sexual harassment training for UCLA faculty, mediating and conducting shuttle diplomacy for UCLA's Ombuds Office, and, as staff attorney at the Harriett Buhai Center in South Central Los Angeles, assisting low-income at-risk clients with their pro se family law matters. Prior to law school, Eliza was a housing and benefits advocate at Greater Boston Legal Services where she helped establish a unit focussing on homelessness. In addition, she served as a legislative aide to Massachusetts State Representative David B. Cohen.

She has directed the Pro Bono Collaborative since January, 2006.