Public Interest Special: Sheena Prevette and Heidi Cerneka

On this week’s episode, Lenny hands the microphone off to Sheena Prevette, a fellow classmate in Loyola’s Public Interest Seminar course. For her capstone project, Sheena, a 3L in the Weekend JD Program sits down with Loyola Alumna Heidi Cerneka to explore her career in public interest law. Sheena is one of the dedicated students serving clients as part of Loyola’s Civitas ChildLaw clinic and is preparing to continue her career of public service, focused on children and international human rights law. Heidi, meanwhile, is a Maryknoll Lay Missioner and an immigration attorney working with Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center. She has spent over twenty years working as an advocate with incarcerated women throughout Latin America. Heidi served as a civil society representative on state and federal councils, participated in UN human rights events regarding justice-involved women, and recently spent a year in Kenya working with refugees through Jesuit Refugee Services and with a program that trained incarcerated Kenyan women to be paralegals.