The American Bar Association Section of Taxation has selected its 2022-2024 Christine A. Brunswick Public Service Fellow:
Anna Gooch, is a Research Fellow with the Center for Taxpayer Rights, and also assists low-income taxpayers through pro bono work with the Villanova Federal Tax Clinic and the Justice and Diversity Center of San Francisco. Prior to joining the Center for Taxpayer Rights, Anna worked as an International Tax Consultant at Deloitte in San Francisco. She received her JD, MBA, and LLM from Villanova University. Anna will work with the Center for Taxpayer Rights to develop an LITC Support Center which will match LITC with pro bono attorneys, create trainings and resources for LITC practitioners, and identify barriers to taxpayer’s rights and identify solutions.
The Public Service Fellowship program was developed in 2008 to address the need for tax legal assistance and to foster an interest in tax-related public service. In 2013, the fellowship was re-named the Christine A. Brunswick Public Service Fellowship in honor of the late Christine Brunswick, the Section’s former Executive Director for over 20 years. Christine was a strong proponent of advancing public service efforts in tax law and fostering a fair and equitable tax system. Under her leadership, the Tax Section devoted significant resources to further that goal.
The Fellowships provide funding for the fellows’ salaries and benefits, as well as law school debt assistance, by means of charitable contributions to the sponsoring organizations. All applications were reviewed, and the successful applicants selected, by the Section’s Public Service Fellowship Committee. The Section awards as many as two fellowships each year.
The Christine A. Brunswick Public Service Fellowship is funded by the Tax Assistance Public Service (TAPS) Endowment fund. For more information on the TAPS Endowment fund, including how to contribute, please click here.