A2J Lab Staff

Michelle Blouin is the Communications Associate at the Access to Justice Lab. She previously worked in communications for the Harvard University Asia Center and in journalism for various high-tech publications and online media. She holds a B.A. from Saint Anselm College and a M.A. in Journalism from the University of Colorado.

Email: mblouin[at]law.harvard.edu

Renee L. Danser is Associate Director of Research and Strategic Partnerships with the Access to Justice Lab. Ms. Danser obtained a Bachelor of Arts and her J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. She graduated from the Institute for Court Management Fellows Program in May of 2013 where her project was awarded the Vice President’s Award of Merit for Applied Research.

Ms. Danser began her career as a court manager when she chaired the multidisciplinary committee to unify the family court in Pittsburgh under the best practice principles of “One Judge/One Family”. Thereafter Ms. Danser began oversight of self-represented litigant services. Ms. Danser then went on to oversee all court operations as the Court Administrator for the 43rd Judicial District of Pennsylvania before transitioning to advocacy as the Deputy Director of the Self-Represented Litigation Network (SRLN). In that role she was responsible for connecting lawyers, judges, and allied professionals who are creating innovative and evidence-based solutions so that self-represented litigants have meaningful access to the courts and get the legal help they need.

Ms. Danser served on the Board of Directors for the National Association for Court Management (NACM) as the Membership Services Committee Chair and on the Executive Board of Directors and chair of the Government Relations Committee of the Monroe County Bar Association. Ms. Danser was appointed to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court Domestic Relations Procedural Rules Committee and is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Email: rdanser[at]law.harvard.edu

Judith Duvivier originally joined Harvard Law School in 2019 as a Faculty Assistant. She holds a Bachelor of Sciences in French Private Law from University Nanterre Paris 10 in France. Since February 2023, she has been the Lab’s Administrative Coordinator.

Email: jduvivier[at]law.harvard.edu

Alina holds an A.B. in Government and Economics from Harvard College. Prior to joining the Access to Justice Lab, she interned in the Research and Analytics Department at the Office of the New York State Attorney General. Alina also spent a summer as an intern assisting clients with immigration cases at the Greater Chicago Legal Clinic.

Email: aesanu[at]law.harvard.edu

Email: pansert[at]law.harvard.edu

Jim Greiner is the Honorable S. William Green Professor of Public Law at Harvard Law School. In 1991, he obtained a B.A. with High Honors from the University of Virginia, which he maintains is the greatest place in the universe. From 1991 to 1992, he was a Rotary International scholar in the Dominican Republic. In 1995, he graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was an Articles Editor for the Michigan Law Review, Co-Winner of the Campbell Moot Court competition, and one of three winners of the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship. From 1995-96, he clerked for the Honorable Patrick E. Higginbotham on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He then practiced law for six years in Washington, D.C., three for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, and three for the law firm of Jenner & Block. In 2007, he obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard’s Department of Statistics, joined the Harvard Law School faculty the same year, and was awarded tenure in 2012. His current research is entirely within and devoted to the A2J Lab.

Additional information: CV / ssrn page
Email: jgreiner[at]law.harvard.edu

Ryan Halen is a Data Analyst at the Access to Justice Lab and a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Ryan’s research interests include political methodology and comparative politics, and his dissertation research focuses on the politics of economic inequality and redistribution. Ryan has worked on many academic projects that seek to leverage rigorous, empirical research and tech-based data analytics to better inform our understanding of and strategic approach to alleviating poverty and economic inequality. In his spare time, Ryan enjoys learning about theoretical physics, consciousness, and the experience of Time. This is a big hit at parties.

Email: rhalen[at]law.harvard.edu

Mandy Mobley Li is an Assistant Director at the Access to Justice Lab at Harvard Law School. She currently manages a portfolio of randomized control trials, or “RCTs,” designed to evaluate the impact of legal innovations concerning bail reform, child welfare, community advocacy, and public defense. Before joining Harvard’s staff, Mandy was a Justice Innovation Lead at Stanford Law School where she led the Filing Fairness Project for the Rhode Center on the Legal Profession and the Legal Design Lab. Mandy has worked in state trial and appellate courts, and her research on sustainable child support was published in the State Bar of Georgia’s Family Law Review. Prior to shifting her career into law, Mandy led client sales and business development efforts at IBM and consulted as a systems analyst for Deloitte. Mandy has a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law, an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management, and an S.B. in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Email: mali[at]law.harvard.edu

Miguel von Fedak holds a Bachelor of Arts in Ethics, Politics, and Economics from Yale College. Before coming to the Access to Justice Lab, he worked as a communications intern at the Neighborhood Developers and as a research assistant at Innovations for Poverty Action Mexico. Over the last two years of his undergraduate career, Miguel designed and implemented a research project on the French Citizens’ Convention on the End of Life. This research culminated in Miguel’s undergraduate thesis and has ignited within him a love of producing socially and politically impactful research.

Email: mvonfedak[at]law.harvard.edu