Penn State Law student awarded prestigious Peggy Browning Fellowship

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. – Kelsey Mansell, rising 3L student at Penn State Law in University Park, has been awarded a 10-week summer fellowship from the Peggy Browning Fund. She will spend the fellowship working at the union-supporting law firm Freedman & Lorry, P.C. in Philadelphia.

At Freedman & Lorry, Mansell will be working with the labor division attending union executive board meetings, National Labor Relations Board proceedings, arbitrations, and court proceedings. She will also be drafting Unfair Labor Practice charges, arbitration briefs, client opinion letters, and letters to request bargaining with employers.

Mansell, who has a bachelor’s degree in Labor and Employment Relations, grew up in the Anthracite Coal Region of Pennsylvania and became interested in labor law after learning one of her ancestors was hung for his participation in the infamous Molly Maguires. She comes from a long line of union members, including her parents who are both teachers and members of the Pennsylvania Educators Association. Last summer, she worked at MidPenn Legal Services and has interned with the City of Harrisburg, Law Bureau. Kelsey is also an associate editor for The Yearbook on Arbitration and Mediation at Penn State Law and is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Society.

“I hope that I can just soak up as many experiences and meet as many people as I can in 10 short weeks,” says Mansell. “I look most forward to meeting the union members themselves, and seeing all the different unique personalities each union possesses.”

The Peggy Browning Fund is a not for-profit organization established in memory of Margaret A. Browning, a prominent union-side attorney who was a member of the National Labor Relations Board from 1994 until 1997. Peggy Browning Fellowships provide law students with unique, diverse and challenging work experiences fighting for social and economic justice. These experiences encourage and inspire students to pursue careers in public interest labor law.