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Stephanie Dingle of the Canadian Public Health Officer’s Ethics Advisory Director of Student Life Committee. She has served as a visiting scholar at the Petrie-­ Stephanie Dingle has over ten years of Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and experience in higher education with a Bioethics at ; the University of Sydney In 1980, established the Robert W. Woodruff Scholars focus in student development, diversity Law School; the Melbourne Law School; and the Faculty and inclusion, leadership development, of Law at Oxford University, where she also held a Plumer and Fellows Program to recruit and reward students with exceptional and community development. In her Visiting Research Fellowship at St. Anne’s College. Bobinski role, she provides support to recently completed a new edition of Health Care Law & character, scholastic abilities, and leadership qualities. more than 60 student organizations, Ethics (Wolters Kluwer) with her co-authors and is working advises the Student Bar Association, on a research project focused on the contested nature of the and coordinates orientation programming. She is passionate physician-patient relationship, with a particular focus on about diversity efforts and wrote her dissertation on legal responses to conflicting values or norms. integrating International Students within the campus Robert W. Woodruff community. Prior to joining the Emory community, Dingle received her doctorate degree from Kay L. Levine Just 33 years old Meanwhile, Ernest Woodruff had invested along in educational leadership, a master’s degree in college student Associate Dean for Faculty, Professor when he took with many other Atlantans in The Coca-Cola Co., affairs from Rutgers University, and a bachelor’s degree in of Law command of which had been acquired and taken public by a Language and Cultural Studies from Trinity Washington Kay Levine joined the Emory faculty in University. 2003. She graduated Phi Beta The Coca-Cola syndicate led by the Trust Co. of Georgia. After Kappa from and Co. in 1923, the acquisition, the company fell on lean times, so Andrew (Drew) Stevens 14L, received her JD from the University Robert Winship Ernest persuaded Robert to return to Atlanta and Woodruff Fellow of California-Berkeley, Boalt Hall Woodruff become its president. University Historian, Emory University School of Law, where she served as shaped the Drew Stevens is an associate in the an editor on the Berkeley Women’s fledgling soft During the next six decades, Woodruff established Arnall Golden Gregory LLP Litigation Law Journal. She later earned both a master’s degree and a drink enterprise a remarkable record as a businessman and and Intellectual Property practice PhD in jurisprudence and social policy from UC Berkeley. and its bottler philanthropist. He gave anonymously to many groups, where he focuses on complex Before joining Emory, Levine served as a law clerk for the franchise system institutions, a number of which owe their commercial litigation involving Honorable David Alan Ezra, US District Court, District of into a corporate very existence to his generosity. Much of his intellectual property, health systems, Hawaii; as a deputy district attorney in Riverside County, giant with the philanthropy was directed through the Trebor and real property. Stevens has extensive California; as a criminal defense consultant; and as an world’s most Foundation, established in 1937 (renamed the experience prosecuting and defending claims of trademark adjunct faculty member of Boalt Hall. Since joining Emory, infringement and unfair competition, and he regularly she has earned both the Most Outstanding Professor Award widely known Robert W. Woodruff Foundation following his and the Emory Williams Teaching Award. trademark. death). Woodruff and his brother also presided represents brand owners in cancellation and opposition proceedings before the Trademark Trial and A man of enormous stature and personal over the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Fund, a Appeal Board. Drew also counsels and represents hospitals magnetism, Woodruff’s influence over the affairs separate charitable foundation whose assets of and health systems on compliance and in litigation under Ethan Rosenzweig 02L, of Coca-Cola was absolute until his death in approximately $105 million were distributed in Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 1557 Woodruff Fellow 1985. 1979 to Emory University. of the Affordable Care Act, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Associate Dean for Enrollment Act of 1964, and in civil rights investigations brought by the Management and Student Services Woodruff was born in Columbus, Georgia, in The gift was called the largest single benefaction Department of Justice and the Office for Civil Rights at the After serving as Emory Law’s director 1889 and soon moved to Atlanta, where his in American history and increased Woodruff’s Department of Health and Human Services. of alumni affairs, Ethan Rosenzweig now oversees Emory Law’s admission, father, Ernest, became president of the Trust donations to the university to more than $200 financial aid, and career services. He Co. of Georgia. An indifferent student, young million. Emory, with five million shares of stock, Mary Anne Bobinski Dean and Asa Griggs Cander has served as deputy director of the US Woodruff wasted no time in making his mark in became one of the largest owners of Coca-Cola. Department of Education’s Office of business. Beginning as a salesman for the White Professor of Law Before joining Emory Law, Mary Anne Policy Briefing and Scheduling as a Presidential Management Motor Co. in Cleveland, Ohio, Woodruff quickly Bobinski was a professor at the Allard Fellow. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable became the company’s most successful salesman School of Law, where she served as dean G. Ernest Tidwell of the US District Court of Northern and was soon promoted to vice president and from 2003 to 2015. Previously she was Georgia and then practiced law with Nelson Mullins Riley general sales manager. the John and Rebecca Moores Professor & Scarborough in Charleston, South Carolina. A Woodruff of Law and director of the Health Law Fellow, Rosenzweig graduated Order of the Coif and served and Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center. as the executive notes and comments editor for the Emory Law Journal. He received his undergraduate and master’s She is a past president and board member of the American degrees in public policy from . Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and a past member

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Who’s Who (continued) Selection Committee (continued) numerous courts, and she has testified about her empirical Julie Seaman BA from the University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude) Silas Allard 11L 11T Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study work before several legislative committees. Shepherd has Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, and her JD from Harvard (magna cum laude), where she was of Law and Religion, Managing Editor also been invited to present her scholarly work by faculties Associate Professor of Law an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She currently serves of the Journal of Law and Religion at leading universities around the country. Julie Seaman teaches courses and on the board of the Georgia Innocence Project. Silas W. Allard is managing director and seminars in evidence, constitutional law, Harold J. Berman Fellow in Law and Shepherd has considerable experience as an economic and freedom of speech. Her research Religion at the Center for the Study of and statistical expert. She has authored numerous expert interests include neuroscience and Law and Religion at Emory University. reports, testified at deposition and at trial in both federal and law, scientific evidence, hate speech, He is managing editor of the Journal of administrative courts, and provided public policy research and sex discrimination. In particular, she Law and Religion, published as a joint and white papers for many clients. Her expert work has focuses on the implications of findings venture between CSLR and Cambridge University Press. examined issues relating to market power and competition, in cognitive psychology, , and neuroscience to various His work has appeared in Refuge and Political Theology. economic impact analyses of proposed regulations, legal theories and doctrines. Professor Seaman received her A scholar of law and religious ethics, Allard’s work focuses enforcement actions by federal agencies, and damage on issues of migration and human rights. In addition to computations. his scholarly work, Allard serves in leadership roles for El Refugio, a ministry of hospitality for the families of detained Selection Committee immigrants, and the Georgia Immigration Working Group. Kamina A. Pinder Assistant Professor of Practice James B. Hughes Jr. Emory University School of Law (JD). She practiced law Allard joined CSLR, his alma mater, in 2013, following a In 2016 Kamina Pinder joined the Associate Professor of Law as a commercial litigator with a large Atlanta firm before two-year clerkship with Chief Judge Donald C. Pogue at the Emory faculty, where she teaches first- James B. Hughes Jr. received his joining the staff of First Presbyterian in 2011. She regularly United States Court of International Trade. year legal writing and contracts. She undergraduate degree from the represented juvenile defendants as well as immigrants has taught at several law schools in University of Connecticut, where he seeking asylum in the United States. Her work at First A 2011 joint law and theology degree graduate, Allard the areas of legal writing, contracts, graduated with honors, and earned his Presbyterian ranges from advocacy for Atlanta’s homeless served as editor-in-chief of the Emory International Law professional responsibility, remedies, law degree from Yale University. community to pursuing global mission partnerships to Review, and received the university’s highest student honor, case settlement negotiation, bar prep, Before joining the Emory faculty in running a social entrepreneurship incubator to overseeing the Marion Luther Brittain award. In addition to his juris and externship. Pinder is also a bar review lecturer in the 1992, he was a partner in the Atlanta church operations and functioning as the church’s general doctor and master of theological studies from Emory, subject of professional responsibility. Her scholarship has firm of Trotter, Smith & Jacobs, counsel. he holds a bachelor of arts in religious studies from the been published in the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights where he practiced in commercial real estate finance and University of . and Civil Liberties, Amsterdam Law Forum, Journal of development and related areas of law. At Emory, he teaches She is married to Joel LeMon, associate professor of Old Law and Education, and the Georgetown Journal of Law courses in property, real estate sales and finance, and Testament at Emory University and the Candler School of Joanna M. Shepherd and Education. Pinder was a clinical teaching fellow at professional responsibility. Hughes served a two-year term as Theology. They are the proud parents of two wonderful Thomas Simmons Professor of Law Law Center. She previously practiced interim dean from September 2017 through July 2019. children: James, age twelve, and Caroline, age nine. Before joining Emory, Joanna Shepherd in the Office of the General Counsel for the United States Hughes has been selected as the Most Outstanding Professor was an assistant professor of Economics Department of Education where she served as legal counsel by the Emory Student Bar Association (2002) and as Jeffrey (Steve) Ferketic 13L, to a number of federal grant programs. Pinder received an Woodruff Fellow at Clemson University and worked at Professor of the Year by the Black Law Students Association the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. LLM from Georgetown University Law Center, a JD from Assistant United States Attorney, (2005). In addition to serving as associate dean for academic In addition to her position at the the New School of Law, and a BA from US Attorney’s Office for the District of affairs at the school (2002-2006 and 2014-2017), Hughes law school, she currently serves as Smith College. New Jersey served as vice dean of Emory Law from 2006 through 2011. an adjunct professor in the Emory Steve Ferketic is a federal prosecutor His extensive service to the Emory community includes Department of Economics. serving in the University Senate, University Faculty Council, in Newark, New Jersey. Ferketic previously was an associate in the and numerous law school and university committees. Much of Shepherd’s research focuses on topics in law and Securities Litigation Group at Weil, economics, especially on empirical analyses of legal changes Gotshal & Manges, a fellow at NYU and legal institutions. Her recent research has empirically Law’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, and a Rebekah LeMon 07L, Woodruff examined issues related to the healthcare industry, tort law clerk for Judge Patty Shwartz of the United States Court Fellow reform, employment law, litigation practice, and judicial of Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Anne Thompson Executive Pastor, First Presbyterian behavior. She has published broadly in law reviews, legal of the United States District Court for the District of New Church of Atlanta journals and economics journals. In addition to publishing Jersey. While at Emory Law, Ferketic was a Woodruff Fellow, Rev. Rebekah Close LeMon is executive dozens of academic articles, Shepherd is the author of editor-in-chief of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments pastor of the First Presbyterian Church two textbooks: The Economic Analysis of Law and The Journal, and a member of the TI:GER® Program. Before of Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up in Economics of Industrial Organization. Spartanburg, South Carolina, and attending law school, Ferketic taught high school science in Roma, Texas, as a member of Teach For America. Ferketic is a graduate of the University of Shepherd has been featured on several TV and radio is a graduate of the University of Connecticut where he was North Carolina-Chapel Hill (AB In programs and has been interviewed about her research in a University Scholar and studied biological sciences and English), Columbia Theological Seminary (MDiv), and numerous newspapers. Shepherd’s research has been cited by political science. 4 | Woodruff Finalist Weekend Woodruff Finalist Weekend | 5 2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship Program 2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship Program Current Fellows Current Fellows (continued)

Cory Mull Laura Flint CLASS OF 2020 Vanderbilt University 2007, BE summa CLASS OF 2021 Emory University 2016, BA summa cum Frederick (Eric) Johnson cum laude in mechanical engineering, Matthew Belitsos laude in political science with a minor in University of Georgia 2012, BA minor in management of technology Western Michigan University 2016 economics magna cum laude in political science; In 2007, Cory Mull, a Marietta, BS summa cum laude in student After graduating from Emory University MPA in public affairs, services, and Georgia, native, graduated summa integrated curriculum with summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, administration cum laude with a BE in mechanical concentrations in , Laura Flint returned home to the Captain Frederick Johnson of the US engineering from Vanderbilt University. , and English Washington, DC, area and worked for Air Force (USAF) was commissioned in As an undergraduate, he received the Matthew Belitsos is a passionate the Federalist Society for two years. 2012 and completed USAF intelligence Mechanical Engineering Program Award, was inducted into community advocate. He co-founded As assistant director and then deputy officer training, followed by assignment the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, and was the the Asheville Small Home Advocacy director, she helped to coordinate the programming activities in the United Kingdom as flight Scholarship chair. After graduation, Committee, where he collaborates of the society’s fifteen practice groups. At Emory Law, Flint commander and executive officer for the 488th Intelligence he began an eight-year career with Chevron Corporation, with business leaders, concerned citizens, and government is the president of the Emory Federalist Society and a staff Squadron. As an aircrew instructor and evaluator, he starting as a subsea pipeline engineer and rising through agencies to increase the availability of affordable housing. member on the Emory Law Journal. She plans to clerk for executed missions supporting four named military operations the ranks to site lead, managing a team of over 20 people Previously, Belitsos specialized in the technology industry, US Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Elizabeth Branch 94L and was awarded the Air Medal, three Aerial Achievement across four worksites on the Congo River Crossing Recovery managing engineering solutions at Internet Security Systems (Eleventh Circuit)after graduation. Medals, and the Air Force Commendation Medal for his Project. In search of more stability, Mull became a registered and overseeing security services infrastructure at IBM service. Additionally, he was named Squadron Company patent agent in 2015 and took a position with Taylor English Corporation, where he directed a team of senior engineers Suman Malempati Grade Officer of the Year in 2015 and Officer Instructor of Duma LLP in Atlanta, Georgia, in early 2016. Following supporting a division with more than $400 million in annual Duke University 1990, BA cum laude in the Year in 2016. Prior to his distinguished military service, graduation from Emory University School of Law, he intends revenue. He is a lifelong musician who is proficient in history; Washington University School Johnson graduated magna cum laude from the University of to combine his technical expertise and law education to percussion and guitar performance. of Medicine 1996, MD Georgia with a BA in political science and an MPA in public better serve clients as a patent attorney. Suman Malempati came to Emory affairs, services, and administration. His goal is to complete Law to pursue a career in civil his legal education at Emory Law and return to his military Margaret (Maggie) Clark rights. Prior to law school, he was University of Georgia 2018 an accomplished physician, medical service as an attorney in the Air Force Judge Advocate Linden Wait General’s Corps. BA magna cum laude in international researcher, and educator. Malempati University of North Carolina – Chapel affairs and ecology was associate professor of pediatrics Hill 2014, BA with highest distinction Samin Mossavi Maggie Clark is a model academic. at Oregon Health & Science University in the Division in political science and global studies, Furman University 2017, During her time in the honors program of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, where he served on minor in Arabic language BA summa cum laude in politics and at UGA, she conducted extensive several institutional, regional, and national committees and Linden Wait is originally from the international affairs, minor in Middle ecological and international affairs published more than thirty peer-reviewed articles and book mountains of North Carolina and East and Islamic studies research on topics such as climate chapters. At Emory, Malempati’s interest in civil rights and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in Samin Mossavi, an Iranian American, change on vulnerable populations and environmentally social justice has flourished. He is active in many Emory 2014 with a BA in political science was young when her family immigrated endangered cultures as well as a comparative case study of Law student organizations, including the Emory Public and global studies. Before law school, to the United States from Sweden. the risk of Zika contraction based on societal gender norms Interest Committee and the Emory Law School Supreme she taught English at an Islamic Senior High School in Post-9/11, she found that her diverse with a focus on sexual violence. In addition, she served the Court Advocacy Program, and he is executive online editor Indonesia and worked with the International Association background provided a foundation UGA community as a student ambassador and representative of the Emory Law Journal. Malempati worked as a summer of Women Judges on equal justice initiatives in the Middle to help her dispel stereotypes, speak out against social on the Undergraduate Program Committee for the Odum intern for the Honorable Amy Totenberg, US District Court East and North Africa. She is passionate about advocating injustices, and ultimately find her calling into the law. School of Ecology, secretary to the Pi Sigma Alpha Political for the Northern District of Georgia, after his first year and for refugee and immigrant communities. She currently serves Her areas of interest include corporate and securities law. Science Honor Society, and a mini-grant participant in will intern with the Southern Environmental Law Center this as president of Emory’s chapter of the International Refugee While at Furman, she completed internships at Jones Day Leadership UGA. Clark also fulfills her passion for the arts summer. Assistance Project and is a founding member of the Emory in Atlanta, Georgia, and at McGuireWoods Consulting by acting in numerous stage performances, singing with her Immigrant Legal Assistance Clinic. While in law school, in Richmond, Virginia. She was vice president of the a cappella choir, and overseeing several theater productions she has interned with the Tahirih Justice Center, Project Panhellenic Executive Council, captain of Mock Trial, and in the Athens arts community. South, Atlanta Legal Aid, and Access to Law Foundation. treasurer of the Pre-Law Society. While at Emory, Mossavi Wait is currently interning with the Atlanta City Public externed for Presiding Justice Nahmias of the Georgia Defender’s new Immigration Defense Unit and plans to Supreme Court, served as a caseworker for the International pursue a career in immigration and criminal defense. After Refugee Assistance Project, and worked as a summer graduating, she will work as a judicial law clerk at the New associate for Alston & Bird and King & Spalding in Atlanta. York Immigration Court through the Department of Justice She is the vice president of the Middle Eastern Law Students Honors Program. Association and serves as the executive online editor of the Emory Law Journal. Upon graduation, Mossavi will serve as law clerk to Judge Traxler of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and in 2021 will join Weil, Gotshal & Manges’ (NYC) Securities Litigation practice. 6 | Woodruff Finalist Weekend Woodruff Finalist Weekend | 7 2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship Program 2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship Program

Current Fellows (continued) Fellowship Finalists (continued) of the Defense to achieve fluency in Arabic. She also attended CLASS OF 2022 an intensive Arabic language program at the Modern Spencer Furey Sloan Hodges Arabic Language International Center in Jordan. Beyond Dartmouth College 2017, BA summa Georgia Institute of Technology Nick Barker cum laude in history with a minor in 2020 (anticipated), BS in business Georgia Institute of Technology 2015, BS the classroom, Mitchell participated in a refugee mentorship program, where she tutored refugee children from Arabic- English; Cambridge University 2018, administration with a minor in in international affairs MPhil American history international affairs Nick Barker graduated with highest speaking countries. She worked as a research intern at Clark Center for Australian and New Zealand Studies. Spencer Furey is a consummate scholar Sloan Hodges is a former Junior honors from the Georgia Institute of athlete. A member of the United States Olympian competing in water polo and Technology, where he earned a bachelor’s Daniel Zozaya Brown National Rowing Team, he is training an accomplished student. A recipient degree in International Affairs. Barker The George Washington University 2011, for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, of the Zell Miller Scholarship, she studied Arabic in Jordan until he BA in political science Japan. He graduated with honors while also competing participated in the European Union Study Abroad Program returned to Atlanta, where he served for University of Missouri 2017, MA in as a four-year member of the Dartmouth College Rowing at Georgia Tech, traveling to eight countries and places of several years as a refugee resettlement public affairs Team. Furey is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a Rufus import, including the Hague. In college, Hodges works as case manager at Lutheran Services of Georgia. Currently Daniel Zozaya Brown is passionate Choate Scholar, and a James O. Freedman Presidential a note taker for Disability Services and was a coach for the in his first year at Emory Law, Barker enjoys his classes about the importance of corporate Scholar. Furey received Class of 1948 Scholar-Athlete Atlanta Public School System, where she taught and works as Professor Morgan Cloud’s research assistant. social responsibility and public service. Award and James B. Reynolds Scholarship for Foreign and water polo skills. Additionally, Hodges is in the Honors He is the 1L Representative for Emory’s chapter of the Upon graduating from the George Study. He is a case assistant at Paul Hastings LLP in San Program at Georgia Tech. International Refugee Assistance Project, which will soon Washington University, Zozaya Brown Francisco, California, where he works in the Employment open a legal clinic to assist local refugees. Barker is exploring joined the and served in Ecuador assisting Law group focusing on wage and hour disputes, employment various practice areas, but he has a particular interest in in the implementation of new educational policies. In discrimination, arbitration, and complex litigation. Chanel Holmes impact litigation. In his free time, Barker enjoys listening to addition, Zozaya Brown has also worked as a Peace Corps Kennesaw State University 2019, BS NPR podcasts, taking walks around Emory’s campus, and recruiter, government translator, and has taught high school Melissa Gerdts summa cum laude in political science spending quality time with his friends and family in Atlanta. literature and composition in Mexico, his birthplace. Duke University 2019, BA international Chanel Holmes is the recipient of comparative studies; Medieval and Kennesaw State’s College of Humanities Shannon Mitchell After obtaining a master’s degree in public affairs from the Renaissance studies with a French minor and Social Science Outstanding Alumni University of Texas at Austin 2019, BA University of Missouri, he worked in economic development Melissa Gerdts is a student and teacher. Award, and she was a nominee for the in international relations and global for two years developing sustainable business initiatives She works as an English teaching Outstanding Political Science Student studies and providing resources to low-income immigrant families assistant with the Fulbright US Student award. During her undergraduate Shannon Mitchell is passionate about and aspiring entrepreneurs to help them achieve economic Program. She handles multiple English education, she worked as a criminal the study of political and humanitarian independence and prosperity. Zozaya Brown is also fluent in classes, focusing on US culture and investigations intern at the Cobb County District Attorney’s issues in the Middle East, especially Spanish, served as a member of the Quad Cities Chamber of integrating Speak Truth to Power, a human rights Office, where she was responsible for assisting prosecutors the refugee crisis. She has an advanced Commerce’s business advisory committee, and is a constant education program, to children between three and eighteen in the preparation of criminal felony cases and trials through proficiency in Arabic. At the University volunteer with organizations such as the Boys and Girls years old for a program at Fundación Secretariado Gitano, the collection of evidence, updating case files, aiding in the of Texas at Austin, she participated in Clubs, SCORE, Habitat for Humanity, and the Atlanta a nonprofit organization that works with the Roma serving of subpoenas, and attending court. the Arabic Flagship Program sponsored by the Department Volunteer Lawyers Foundation. community in . During her time at Duke University, Gerdts was a student associate with the Center for American and Caribbean Studies, interned with the Small Serena Hughley Fellowship Finalists Arms Survey in Geneva, Switzerland, and volunteered Spelman College 2020 (anticipated), BS with DukeEngage India. She received the Dean’s Summer international studies and Spanish with a Jonathan Arnold Hannah Finnie Research Fellowship and the First Year of the Year Award. minor in creative writing Southern 2020 Emory University 2015, BA in Serena Hughley is an industrious (anticipated), BS in philosophy with mathematics with an additional major in Ethan Gordon academic. She is a Yale Arthur Liman Spanish and cognitive science minors political science University of North Carolina Public Interest Law Fellow and a US Jonathan Arnold is an exceptional Hannah Finnie has a passion for Greensboro 2016, BS in economics; Department of Education White House student and was inducted into Phi economic justice. She was a Scholarly 2017 MA in applied economics; 2019 HBCU Competitiveness Scholar. During Beta Kappa as a junior, though the Inquiry and Research Fellow and a MA in philosophy (anticipated) her undergraduate studies, she is honor is typically reserved for senior Center for the Study of Law, Politics, Ethan Gordon is a lifelong learner. auditing a class at Emory Law’s Candler School of Theology students. Arnold served as summer and Economics Fellow. A recipient of While completing his master’s degree while working as a legal assistant at Lagrone Law LLC intern for US Congressman Cedric L. Richmond, chairman the Boozer-Noether Scholarship, she worked at the Center in philosophy, Gordon is a graduate Immigration and Criminal Defense. Hughley has worked as of the Congressional Black Caucus from 2017 to 2019. As for American Progress, focusing on economic justice for teaching assistant for Virginia Tech’s a facilitator at Catalyst-Catalizador where she co-developed an undergraduate he won the Ehlin Hoskins Outstanding American youth and LGBTQ equality. Finnie works at the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and instructed drug policy education curriculum in Spanish Philosophy Essay Award in 2019 and has been elected as the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC), where she manages Program. While earning previous degrees, he was a teaching and English. She has been a Spelman College Social Justice SMU Philosophy Club president for four consecutive terms. advocacy work concerning income security and childcare, assistant for introductory philosophy courses and research/ Fellow, a Sidley Pre-Law Scholar, an Ethel Waddell Githii Passionate about physical health, Jonathan became a certified campaigns regarding the administration’s regulatory actions, graduate assistant in macroeconomics. He spent a semester Honors Program Student, an Alpha Lambda Delta Scholar, a personal trainer and works at the SMU campus fitness facility lawsuits filed by the NWLC, traditional media strategy, and abroad at National Taiwan University. He was inducted to National Collegiate Hispanic Honors Student, and a member training students and faculty. social media content. At Emory, Finnie was invited to join Pi Phi Beta Kappa and is proficient in Mandarin Chinese. of the National Society of Collegiate Scholars. Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society. 8 | Woodruff Finalist Weekend Woodruff Finalist Weekend | 9 2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship Program 2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship Program

Fellowship Finalists (continued) Fellowship Finalists (continued) Peter Joseph and Cuba program initiatives. Domestically, Kennedy in the English Opens Door Program in Cabrero, Chile. college, Wang worked with Princeton US–China Coalition 2019, BS in has volunteered her time with many organizations where Pritchett-Montavon also volunteered as an English teacher and served as the co-president and director of operations. chemistry and mathematics her service ranged from an executive board member to a and civics tutor at the Ansob Center for Refugees and Wang has written for the American Foreign Policy Peter Joseph is committed to inclusion. volunteer of Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA). Immigrants. Magazine and was the editor for the Princeton Journal He served as a peer specialist for of East Asian Studies. Wang participated in the Princeton the Social Justice Institute, where he Lucy Lansing Emily Spears in Beijing, Chinese Language Immersion Program and is recruited and maintained a “peer pod” Furman University 2018, magna cum Emory University 2017, BA political proficient in Mandarin Chinese. Wang is active in his local of male students of color for whom laude BA in English science and religion church and enjoys Chinese landscape brush painting. he developed and conducted programs Lucy Lansing is a sixth-grade teacher for Emily Spears is a Trial Unit paralegal on diversity, chemical abuse, personal development, Teach for America at Ransom IB Middle for the Federal Defender Program, Nicole Yapp relationships, security, and academic performance. In School where she solves schoolwide Inc., in Atlanta, Georgia, where she University of Florida 2018, summa college, Joseph worked as a tutor for the Little Rock School problems as a member of the Faculty collects and summarizes relevant cum laude history, African A BA District and as an intern for Defensoria Municipal Del Advisory Committee and develops information for trial preparation. merican studies, and international Niño, Niña y Adolecente, a service in charge of protecting curricula for students with diverse She was previously an intern for the studies and promoting the rights of children and adolescents, He needs. In college, Lansing studied abroad and worked as a same organization. Spears was inducted into the Alpha Nicole Yapp is a highly decorated is currently a program coordinator at his alma mater and teaching assistant for Furman University’s Latin America Episilon Academic Honors Society at Emory, and she scholar. She currently works for the an active volunteer in his community and in Peru, where Study Away Program. Additionally, Lansing held numerous received the Emory Achievement Award Scholarship, the Cleveland Foundation as a public he worked on projects at a Peruvian animal rescue clinic, a leadership positions, including as a cohort member for the Emory Opportunity Award Scholarship, and the Paul B. interest fellow, where she coordinates juvenile rehabilitation center, and a food-distribution service Beginning Teacher Leadership Network and as chair of the Courtright Prize for Overall Excellence among Majors in and facilitates region-wide community for the elderly and children. Student Conduct Board at Furman University. Lansing was the Religion Department. engagement. In college, Yapp was an ambassador for inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, was a Phi Eta Sigma invitee, Multicultural and Diversity Affairs and created programs Stanley Kaminsky and received the James B. Duke Merit Scholarship. Leonard Walker to promote diversity, equality, and social justice. Yapp 2016, BS summa Columbia University 2019, BA also volunteered with multiple organizations during her cum laude in television, radio, and Faith Lewis economics-political science with a undergraduate years. Yapp participated in the University film with a minor in music history and American University 2020 (anticipated), special concentration in linguistics Scholars Program and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa cultures BA environmental studies and Leonard Walker assisted in creating and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. Stanley Kaminsky is an artist and economics with a minor in international the partnership between Columbia Yapp was a Gates Millennium Scholar, a LSAC Prelaw academic. He is the founder and leader studies University and PS-175’s Physical Undergraduate Scholar, and a Sidley Prelaw Scholar, among of the Scranton chapter of Citizens’ Faith Lewis is an AU Presidential Education program through which many other honors and scholarships. Climate Lobby (CCL), which brings Scholar and AU Honors Scholar, and Columbia University students climate action to Scranton by urging governments to she received the Congressional Black volunteered time and equipment. Mustapha Yoosuf-Akinlaja enact legislation to address climate crises. Kaminsky is Caucus Spouses Education Scholarship. Walker was also a teacher’s assistant at Columbia for the Grambling State University 2019, a receptionist at Tellie & Coleman, P.C., and a recorded Lewis studied abroad for an academic course Introduction to Linguistics. He was a member of BS criminal justice and a minor in singer/songwriter. He was the first recipient of the Dan year at the London School of Economics and Political Columbia University’s Sabre Fencing Team. Walker is computer information services Mason Family Audio Scholarship and a recipient of the Science in the department of law where she conducted an fully proficient in five languages and moderately proficient Mustapha Yoosuf-Akinlaja is a first- Zak Trifone Love of Life and Music Award, presented to a environmental justice independent study project that studied in four additional languages. He previously served as a generation college graduate and student who actively writes, performs, and records music soil and blood lead toxicity in urban US communities. While teacher’s assistant at his alma mater and is now a long-term started attending college at the age and who demonstrates collaboration, inclusiveness, and concluding her studies at American University, Lewis is a Spanish substitute teacher. He earned a certificate in Peace of seventeen when he immigrated encouragement of fellow students. policy and legislative intern with Earthjustice, where she Building in Post-Conflict Areas—Diplomacy, Leadership, from Nigeria. He is a recipient of the monitors Congress and tracks relevant legislation. She was and Negotiations during his time studying in Kosovo. ETS HBCU Presidential Scholarship Rachel Kennedy previously a legal and administrative project aide for a firm and is a Turner Eversheds Sutherland Scholar, a Howard Vanderbilt University 2017, BA cum specializing in estate, elder, and special needs law. Eric Wang Law Scholar, and the recipient of the GSU Radiothon laude in Spanish and human and Princeton University 2018, BA summa Scholarship. Yoosuf-Akinlaja volunteered with the organizational development Rosemary Pritchett-Montavon cum laude policy studies; (anticipated) Grambling State University Diversity and Inclusion Rachel Kennedy is a world citizen. Georgetown University 2015, BS MA in theological studies Advisory Counsel to help make Grambling State a diverse After graduating from Vanderbilt, summa cum laude in foreign service Eric Wang received a full merit and inclusive campus. He was president of the Louisiana Kennedy worked for the International and majored in science, technology, and scholarship to Candler School of Eta Chapter of Pi Gamma Mu International Honor Society Justice Mission as a government and international affairs Theology and, while pursuing his and president of the GSU Pinkie C. Wilkerson Pre-Law community relations intern and project Rosemary Pritchett-Montavon, a Phi master’s degree, works as the co- Society. coordinator in La Paz, Bolivia. Kennedy collaborated in Beta Kappa inductee, was a member founder and education director for publishing A Performance Study of the Bolivian Public of the Bezos Scholars Program and the Princeton Global Youth Leaders Justice System and facilitated training on case management National Security Language Initiative (PGYL). Through PGYL, Wang has taught more than 300 tools across seven courts. Kennedy was also a Human for Youth. She is an English teacher and teacher trainer with Chinese high school students leadership skills. While in Freedom intern with the George W. Bush Institute where the Peace Corps in Myanmar. Prior to joining the Peace she conducted policy research for the Burma, North Korea, Corps, Pritchett-Montavon taught English as a foreign language teacher for the Ministry of Education of Chile 10 | Woodruff Finalist Weekend Emory University School of Law 1301 Clifton Road Atlanta, GA 30300-2770 www.law.emory.edu

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