Team Members

In addition to overseeing the law school’s 11 in-house clinics and 6 externship programs, Cade teaches Immigration Law and directs the school’s Community Health Law Partnership Clinic (Community HeLP), in which law students undertake an interdisciplinary approach to immigrants’ rights through individual client representation, litigation, and project-based advocacy before administrative agencies and federal courts. Cade’s…

Kristen E. Shepherd is a staff attorney and adjunct instructor for the Community Health Law Partnership Clinic (Community HeLP) at the University of Georgia School of Law. In this role, she supervises students as they engage in a variety of interdisciplinary services focused on the intersection of immigration status and health, including direct client representation, federal…

Sarah Ehlers joined the University of Georgia School of Law in 2015 and is the paralegal and Spanish interpreter for the Community HeLP Clinic, the Family Justice Clinic, and the Business Law Clinic. Prior to joining the law school, Ehlers worked as a Spanish legal interpreter for the law firm Blasingame, Burch, Garrard & Ashley,…

Avery Van Den Berg serves as a law fellow in the University of Georgia School of Law’s Community Health Law Partnership Clinic, which focuses on interdisciplinary advocacy at the intersection of immigration status and health, including humanitarian and family-based immigration benefits, advocacy on behalf of noncitizen workers and detainees and public education.