Reminiscences of Jane R. Stern : oral history, 2001.

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Reminiscences of Jane R. Stern : oral history, 2001.

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Born in New York City; education: Radcliffe College and Yale Law in 1958; early reminiscences on challenges facing women in law school; September 11th: calling family, watching television, return to work in aftermath; New York Community Trust: mission handling charitable funds and serving donors to set up charitable funds; work as Program Director for Arts, Education and the Humanities program and coordinator for the Fund for New Citizens; September 11th Fund: discussion of legal services supported by the September 11th Fund, challenges to meeting needs of local schools, alllocation of funds including grant to Legal Aid Society, nature of collaborative work and need for consultants, setting guidelines to determine status of victims--particularly status of primary victims of those eligible for Victims Compensation Fund, work with Trial Lawyers Care on primary victim eligibility, tensions between lawyer groups over turf and coordination of roles, distinction between primary and secondary victim status, challenges to identifying economic victims, reminiscence on colleagues; immigrant communities: cultural and linguistic challenges to making relief accessible to illegal or undocumented workers including assistance with family and estate, legal assistance to apply to the Compensation Fund, work with New York Immigration Coalition to tailor grant monies; Arab, Muslims and South Asians: discrimination against, legal services for, anti-bias work, challenges to providing help to those the individuals federal government was confining or bringing proceedings against, some deferral of detention issue because of government involvement and conservative media; Chinatown: devastation of community, challenges to include area in definition of affected sphere of disaster.

transcript: 92 p.sound recordings: 2 sound cassettes (134 min.)

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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