Ben Rodgers

Skadden Fellow

Ben is a Skadden Fellow, representing Massachusetts farmworker children. During law school, he was a student intern at CWJC’s Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Project and at the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. For over two years, he was a member of Yale Law School’s Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, where he worked on trial and appellate court cases, and on matters before federal and state administrative agencies. He was Co-Chair of Professional Development for Yale’s First Generation Professionals student organization. Ben also worked as a research assistant on projects involving immigration law, administrative and regulatory law, and alternatives to incarceration, and as a teaching assistant for a seminar on civil and constitutional rights litigation. Before law school, he worked at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project in rural Washington as a volunteer intern. Ben speaks Spanish.