North American Pro Bono Award Winners

Cara Edwards, Litigation Partner and New York Office Managing Partner, is recognized as a North American Pro Bono Award Winner for assisting with name changes for transgender individuals, working on expungement matters, helping veterans, and obtaining asylum for a client and her son who fled their home country.

Palo Alto-based Partner Ute Krudewagen, Chair of International Employment, focuses her pro bono work on immigration and nonprofit employment matters. She currently represents an Afghan woman judge and 15 of her family members in their humanitarian parole applications. Ute also works with multiple nonprofits in the areas of environmental protection and women’s rights and serves as a mentor to junior lawyers. She volunteers at the local food bank and bakes custom-made birthday cakes for underprivileged children through nonprofit Cake4Kids. We honor Ute as a North American Pro Bono Award Winner.

North American Pro Bono Award Winner Fahim Barmaki, a paralegal in our Palo Alto office, centers his pro bono work on helping refugees and Special Immigrant Visa holders from Afghanistan. Fahim has dedicated his pro bono time to helping Afghan women judges and their families.

North American Pro Bono Award Winner Elisabeth Cappuyns, Director of Knowledge Management, consulted with the United Nations’ World Food Programme, which operates in more than 120 countries, on how to digitalize and integrate information systems. She provided advice on the creation, launch, and operation of WFP’s case and knowledge management systems to optimize their internal and external resources.