Growing up with a Swedish mom and living in Stockholm during high school, Jennifer Morgan ’26 came to appreciate Sweden’s social system, which provides generous paid parental leave for everyone.
Now, she wants to help workers in New York receive similar benefits.
“The values that I have from being half Swedish and living there made me feel very passionately about the rights that people ought to have,” Morgan says.
The Skadden Fellowship Foundation, which provides two-year fellowships to recent law graduates to pursue the practice of public interest law full-time, named Morgan a 2026 Skadden Fellow in December 2025. In the fall, she will begin her fellowship project at A Better Balance, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization based in New York City that focuses on workplace justice especially for women, caregivers, and people with health issues. There, Morgan will work to ensure access to temporary disability insurance and paid family leave benefits for pregnant, postpartum, and caregiving low-wage workers in New York.
Morgan describes the fellowship project as a “perfect melding” of her legal interests. “I wanted to do something at the intersection of employment law and gender justice,” she says. A Better Balance, co-founded in 2005 by Sherry Leiwant ’75, “felt like the perfect place for me to work, the sort of dream organization. And they happened to be looking for a fellow to do the kind of project I really wanted to do.”
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