Schulte Announces 2023 Brooks Burdette Fellow

Schulte Roth and Zabel is pleased to announce that associate Georgia Haniuk has been selected as the 2023 Brooks Burdette Fellow. Chosen after a rigorous application process, Georgia will be fully embedded for six months with SAGE (Advocacy and Services for LGBTQ+ Elders), the world’s oldest and largest organization dedicated to advocacy, services and innovations for members of the aging LGBTQ+ community, while continuing to receive full pay and benefits as a Schulte employee. 

As the 2023 Fellow, Georgia will support SAGE in several ways, primarily in an in-house counsel role, advising SAGE on a range of business law matters and developing new partnerships with other organizations. Georgia will also work on SAGE’s new social enterprise division SAGEVenture and on SAGECare. Additionally, Georgia will contribute to SAGE’s policy and advocacy work as there is a terrifying increase in anti-LGBTQ+ legislative actions across the country. 

Georgia is a second-year investment management associate. As a first-year associate, she spearheaded the Schulte team that drafted the multi-disciplinary guide with Pregnancy Justice, Confronting Pregnancy Criminalization, and worked on criminal justice legislation in Louisiana. In 2021, Georgia received her J.D. from Tulane University Law School, where she was the Director of the Tulane University Legal Assistance Program and active with If/When/How: Lawyering for Reproductive Justice. After graduating from Montana State University in 2017, she worked as a legal advocate with Haven, supporting survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and/or human trafficking.

A Schulte pro bono client since 2021, SAGE has also received our pro bono support in connection with real estate, employment and pension issues, and strengthening SAGE's organizational structure. Schulte will continue to support SAGE and our Fellow with ongoing pro bono work during the Fellowship.

About Brooks Burdette

In 2009, Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP created the Brooks Burdette Fellowship in honor of the late litigation partner who was a long-time chair of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee and whose commitment to public interest work while at the firm was exemplary. Brooks was a board member of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and was the first chair of the Board of Democracy Prep, a Harlem charter school.