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Experiential Learning Staff
CARMIA CAESAR
director of the Externship Program and the Public Interest Law Scholars Program, Adjunct faculty
B.A., Pomona College, J.D., Harvard Law School
Prior to joining the Law Center she was the senior attorney in the TeamChild Juvenile Justice Project at the
Center for Children’s Advocacy (CCA) in Hartford, CT. TeamChild models focus on providing educational
and mental health advocacy to children involved with the juvenile justice programs. Professor Caesar
worked in partnership with juvenile public defenders in Hartford to fill gaps in services that were often
the underlying cause of illegal conduct. In addition to representing individual clients at CCA, Professor
Caesar was engaged in systemic advocacy on behalf of Hartford public school students, and students
incarcerated at the Manson Youth Institute, the CT prison that houses children charged or convicted of
adult and Serious Juvenile Offenses. In partnership with the Education Unit at New Haven Legal Aid,
she helped correct a system wide policy of unlawful withdrawal of children over 17 from the New Haven
Public Schools. From 1996-2002, she served as the co-director of the Berkeley Village Educational Project,
a community based, non-profit youth organization that provided mentoring, teaching and tutoring to at-risk,
minority middle school students. Professor Caesar is a graduate of Pomona College and the Harvard Law
School. Immediately following law school, she accepted a graduate fellowship in public affairs with the
San Francisco Office of the Coro Foundation.
RACHEL STRONG
Assistant dean for Clinical and Practicum Programs, Adjunct faculty
B.A., University of Maryland; J.D., George Washington University School of Law
Assistant Dean Strong joined the Law Center in 2011 and is responsible for administering the clinical and
practicum programs. She works with all of the clinical faculty and clinical teaching fellows on all issues affecting
the clinics. She works with the faculty to develop new practicum courses and acts as a resource for
the practicum faculty, including organizing teacher trainings and best practices for teaching. Prior to her
arrival at the Law Center, Assistant Dean Strong was in private practice at Howrey LLP, first as an associate
in the commercial litigation group and then as the Pro Bono Partner from 1999 to 2011, where she oversaw
the pro bono program and represented clients in various matters, including adoption, custody, domestic
violence, immigration, civil rights, and social security. She is teaching a practicum course entitled Women
and Immigration: Government Protection for Women Fleeing Gender-Based Persecution and Abuse.