Mardi Law: Let the Good Times Roll
Friday, February 6, 2026
OLSPIF Dinner and Auction Information
OLSPIF supports access to justice and our future public service leaders. OLSPIF provides students with summer stipends to work for nonprofit organizations that serve underrepresented people and causes that cannot otherwise afford to pay for legal assistance.
The fund is guided by a volunteer community board. Its annual fundraising initiative, the OLSPIF Dinner and Auction, is organized by student volunteers.
Recent OLSPIF Summer Stipend Recipients
Reese Bobitt
This summer, I worked at Our Children’s Trust, a non-profit public interest law firm that provides legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds to secure their legal rights to a safe climate. My role included tracking federal and state climate legislation, preparing policy briefs, drafting communications to lawmakers and federal agencies, and assisting with advocacy efforts aimed at elevating youth voices in the climate justice movement. My summer position gave me the chance to engage with pressing environmental issues, and I am grateful for the opportunity to continue contributing to OCT’s work during the school year.
Tina Glausi
This summer, I clerked for the Clackamas Indigent Defense Corporation, which handles adult public defense cases in Clackamas County. I drafted memoranda for misdemeanor and felony cases, researched complex legal issues, and observed trials. I also helped oversee a specialty docket called Community Court. The other clerks and I checked in Community Court clients, gathered information for status checks, filled out deferred sentencing agreements, and answered client questions. I am deeply grateful for the opportunity OLSPIF gave me to further my education and to gain experience in the public defense field.
Teddy Jemming
This summer, I worked as an intern for the Rocky Mountain Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization that works to exonerate the wrongly convicted in Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming. My role focused on writing memorandums, attending internal meetings to discuss case strategies, and meeting with experts outside the organization. As a result, there were opportunities to improve my legal research and writing skills, learn about post-conviction procedure and claims, and meet some incredible attorneys and other interns along the way. Thankfully, OLSPIF made this experience feasible, and it was an invaluable step towards my goal of becoming a criminal defense attorney.
Michael Burns
This summer, I worked for the wildlife conservation non-profit Wildlands Network. Wildlands Network’s work primarily focuses of protecting and enhancing habitat connectivity across the United States, Mexico, and Canada. As a summer intern, I researched habitat connectivity legislation in different states, drafted documents for the organization’s internal operations, and helped write testimony to support a house bill here in Oregon. The funding that I received from OLSPIF allowed me to take this unpaid position without having to worry about living expenses over the summer.