About

Matthew Burnett is the Immigration Advocates Network Project Coordinator at Pro Bono Net, a national nonprofit that supports the innovative and effective use of technology in the nonprofit legal sector. He received his B.A. cum laude from the University of Washington, where he was a Mary Gates Scholar and elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and his J.D. cum laude from Seattle University School of Law, where he was a Public Interest Law Foundation grant recipient and on the Editorial Board of the Seattle Journal for Social Justice. Matthew clerked for Justice Z.M. Yacoob of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Before attending law school he worked in online marketing and web production in Seattle and San Francisco. He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Kate Bladow grew up in Mayville, North Dakota and graduated from North Dakota State University with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. Attempting to escape North Dakota’s bitterly cold winters, Kate moved to Montana and worked for Montana Legal Services Association, where she helped to launch MontanaLawHelp.org, a legal information website for the public, and MontanaProBono.net, a website that supports legal aid and pro bono advocates, and coordinated several other technology projects that enhanced client services and increased the public’s access to self-help information. Currently, Kate is employed by Pro Bono Net as NPADO Project Coordinator and helps access-to-justice communities develop document assembly projects. She currently lives in Baltimore and misses snow.

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