Civil Rights Litigation Program
Srividya Panchalam, Esq., Loyola Public Interest Fellow
Srividya Panchalam is a Loyola Law School Public Interest Fellow with the Disability Rights Legal Center’s Civil Rights Litigation Program. Ms. Panchalam’s practice under her fellowship project, the Housing and Homelessness Rights Initative (HHRI), focuses on remedying systemic discrimination against people with disabilities who are homeless or at risk of homelessness in downtown and Skid Row in Los Angeles through impact litigation, community education and legislative advocacy.
Ms. Panchalam is a 2009 graduate of Loyola Law School. During law school, Ms. Panchalam clerked and volunteered with a number of non-profit legal organizations and private civil rights firms in Los Angeles, including the Disability Rights Legal Center, Inner City Law Center, Schonbrun Seplow Desimone Harris and Hoffman LLP, Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson and Renick LLP, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, ACLU of Southern California, and the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking. She was also the Issue Editor of the Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal from 2008-2009. Ms. Panchalam received B.A.’s in English, Philosophy and Political Science in 2005 from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Ms. Panchalam is admitted to practice in the state of California and the United States District Court, Central District of California. She is fluent in Tamil.