Speaker Biographies

Charlotte C. Alvarez ’12 Charlotte Alvarez is the Executive Director of The Immigration Project located in Bloomington, IL. The Immigration Project is a nonprofit agency that provides direct legal services for low income individuals in 86 counties in central and southern Illinois. She represents individuals in immigration cases, including family-based petitions, citizenship, asylum, and other forms of administrative and humanitarian relief. Charlotte is also active in providing Know Your Rights presentations and working with immigrant advocacy organizations to respond to the needs of rural immigrant communities. Previously, Charlotte was the Legal Services Director of the Immigration and Access to Justice program at the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama.

Daniel J. Arbess ’87 Daniel J. Arbess is an investor and analyst recognized for his prescient calls on multi-year macroeconomic and geopolitical developments. He is a former Partner and Head of the Global Privatization practice group at White & Case from 1992, co- founder of investment firms Stratton Investments and Triton Partners from 1995–2002, and founder of Xerion Investments and the $3.25 Billion Xerion Hedge Funds, which he managed from 2003–2014. Dan is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-Founder of No Labels, a US political organization promoting collaboration across the political spectrum.

Sabrineh Ardalan ’02 Sabrineh Ardalan is Assistant Director and Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. She previously served as the Equal Justice America fellow at The Opportunity Agenda and as a litigation associate at Dewey Ballantine LLP. She also clerked for the Honorable Michael A. Chagares of Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Raymond J. Dearie, Chief District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in History and International Studies from Yale College.

Robert C. Bordone ’97 Robert C. Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Founding Director of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program. He teaches several courses at Harvard Law School including the school’s flagship Negotiation Workshop. Bob also teaches in the Harvard Negotiation Institute and the Harvard Program on Negotiation’s Senior Executive Education seminars.

In 2007, Bob received The Albert Sacks-Paul Freund Teaching Award at Harvard Law School, presented annually to a member of the Harvard Law School faculty for teaching excellence, mentorship of students, and general contributions to the life of the Law School. He was a finalist for the same award in 2012 and 2013. In 2010 the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR) awarded Bob its Problem Solving in the Law School Curriculum Award for his innovative work in creating and building the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program. In 2012 and 2013, Bob was selected by the graduating class as one of three Harvard Law School faculty members to deliver a “Last Lecture” to the class prior to graduation.

His research interests include the design and implementation of dispute resolution systems, the development of a problem- solving curriculum in law schools, and ADR ethics. Bob is the co-author of two books: Designing Systems and Processes for Managing Disputes (Aspen, 2013) and The Handbook of Dispute Resolution (Jossey-Bass, 2005). The Handbook of Dispute Resolution was awarded the 2005 Book Award from the National Institute for Advanced Conflict Resolution, awarded to a book published in the United States that shows the best promise of promoting and contributing to the field of conflict resolution. He has also published articles in leading dispute resolution journals including the Harvard Negotiation Law Review, the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, and Negotiation Journal. Bob’s writing and commentary have appeared in various print and broadcast media outlets including The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, CNN’s “The Situation Room”, and BBC Radio. In addition he has created many negotiation role simulations and videos available through the Harvard Program on Negotiation Clearinghouse and the Harvard Case Studies Project.

Prior to coming to Harvard, Bob clerked for the Honorable George A. O’Toole, Jr. of the US District Court for Massachusetts. He has also worked at the Washington DC-based law firm of Crowell & Moring, the New York-based law firm of Cravath, Swaine, & Moore, the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, the US Department of Justice, and the Boston Consulting Group.

Bob is a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College where he majored in Government and a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School where his coursework focused on negotiation, mediation, and dispute resolution. He is a member of the bars of New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia.

As the Director of HNMCP, Bob is responsible for the overall functioning of the clinic, and directly supervises some of the clinical projects.

Christopher T. Bavitz Christopher T. Bavitz is Managing Director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is also a Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law at HLS, where he teaches the seminar, Music & Digital Media, and has co-taught the Practical Lawyering in Cyberspace seminar.

Chris has concentrated his law practice and clinical activities on intellectual property and media law, with an emphasis on music, entertainment, and technology. He oversees many of the Cyberlaw Clinic’s projects relating to copyright, trademark, online speech, and advising of mission-oriented startups and entrepreneurs about their legal, business, and strategic needs. He also works on issues relating to the use of technology to promote access to justice.

Chris joined the Clinic in September 2008 as a Clinical Fellow. He was named Assistant Director of the Clinic in 2009 and was promoted to Clinical Instructor at HLS in 2010.

In his nearly six years at the Clinic, Chris has managed a wide range of work for a wide variety of clients. He has worked closely with Clinic students on matters relating to public media, including collaborations with WBUR’s OpenCourt project (which offered livestreams of court proceedings in Massachusetts) and a long-running association between the Clinic and the Cambridge-based Public Radio Exchange. Chris has also worked with students and clients to draft amicus briefs addressing legal issues before state and federal courts, including the interplay between defamation law and the First Amendment; the attempted use of trademark law to suppress critical speech; the right of citizens to record police officers carrying out their duties in public; the continuing viability and scope of the hot news misappropriation doctrine; and the propriety of a prior restraint against online publication. And, he has teamed up with students and others to prepare public-facing resources regarding the state of the US music industry; privacy law as it pertains to children’s data; and the legal framework that governs newsgatherers in Massachusetts.

Chris serves as Harvard Law School’s Dean’s Designate to the Harvard Innovation Lab, where he works closely with HLS’s Experts in Residence and attorneys who offer legal services to those who work at the i-Lab. He is a member of Harvard Law School’s Public Service Venture Fund Seed Grant Selection Committee and served this year as a Preliminary Judge for Harvard University’s President’s Challenge. He sits on Harvard Law School’s IT Steering Committee.

In addition to his classroom and clinical teaching activities at HLS, Chris has served as a mentor during this, the inaugural year of the Harvard University-wide Digital Problem Solving Initiative. The Initiative is a cross-disciplinary teaching effort being piloted at the Berkman Center, and Chris’s DPSI team has looked at norms and practices at a variety of creation and innovation spaces.

Chris speaks and appears regularly at events and on panels, addressing topics related to intellectual property and technology before audiences that have included college and law school students, librarians and archivists, computer programmers and software developers, and journalists and media lawyers. He served as point person on the Berkman Center’s collaboration with Berklee College of Music on a series of “Rethink Music” events in recent years and co-hosted the 2012 Rethink Music conference in Boston.

Prior to joining the Clinic, Chris served as Senior Director of Legal Affairs for EMI Music North America. From 1998-2002, Chris was a litigation associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and RubinBaum LLP (previously, Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman), where he focused on copyright and trademark matters. Chris received his BA, cum laude, from Tufts University in 1995 and his JD from University of Michigan Law School in 1998.

Megan Leef Brown ’02 Megan Brown is a Partner in the law firm Wiley Rein LLP. She is leader in the firm’s nationally-recognized Telecom, Media and Technology practice, handling, among other things, emerging technology and cybersecurity issues for Fortune 100 companies and associations. She helps companies deploy services, shape policy, and respond to government inquiries and investigations. She practices before the FCC, FTC, DHS, NTIA, GSA, Department of Commerce, and others. She advises on compliance with consumer protection, privacy and security regimes, and helps companies on national security issues, including “Team Telecom”/CFIUS review. Megan litigates questions of first impression related to technology, federal preemption and the First Amendment including commercial speech.

She received the National Law Journal’s “Trailblazer” award for her cyber work, and has been recognized as a “Rising Star” and recommended attorney in areas of security, telecom and appellate. Megan served at the US Department of Justice as Counsel to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. She clerked on the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and now serves as an appointed Commissioner on the Trial Courts Nominating Commission for Maryland. Megan is also on the Board of Directors for the Women’s High Tech Coalition, a 501(c)(3) supporting women in tech and public policy.

I. Glenn Cohen ’03 I. Glenn Cohen is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics, sometimes also called “medical ethics”, and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. From Seoul to Krakow to Vancouver, Professor Cohen has spoken at legal, medical, and industry conferences around the world and his work has appeared in or been covered on PBS, NPR, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Mother Jones, the New York Times, the New Republic, the Boston Globe, and several other media venues.

He was the youngest professor on the faculty at Harvard Law School (tenured or untenured) both when he joined the faculty in 2008 (at age 29) and when he was tenured as a full professor in 2013 (at age 34), though not the youngest in history.

Professor Cohen’s current projects relate to big data, health information technologies, mobile health, reproduction/reproductive technology, research ethics, organ transplantation, rationing in law and medicine, health policy, FDA law, translational medicine, and to medical tourism – the travel of patients who are residents of one country, the “home country,” to another country, the “destination country,” for medical treatment.

He is the author of more than 80 articles and chapters and his award-winning work has appeared in leading legal (including the Stanford, Cornell, and Southern California Law Reviews), medical (including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA), bioethics (including the American Journal of Bioethics, the Hastings Center Report), scientific (Science, Cell, Nature Reviews Genetics) and public health (the American Journal of Public Health) journals, as well as Op-Eds in the New York Times and Washington Post. Cohen is the editor of The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues (Oxford University Press, 2013, the introduction of which is available here), the co-editor of Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future (MIT Press, 2014, co-edited with Holly Lynch), Identified Versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2015, co-edited with Norman Daniels and Nir Eyal), FDA in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies (Columbia University Press, 2015, co-edited with Holly Lynch, the introduction of which is available here), The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Care Law (Oxford University Press, 2015-2016, co-edited with William B. Sage and Allison K. Hoffman) and the author of Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014), with two other books in progress.

Prior to becoming a professor he served as a law clerk to Judge Michael Boudin of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a lawyer for US Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, where he handled litigation in the Courts of Appeals and (in conjunction with the Solicitor General’s Office) in the US Supreme Court. In his spare time (where he can find any!) he still litigates, having authored an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court for leading gene scientist Eric Lander in Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad, concerning whether human genes are patent eligible subject matter, a brief that was extensively discussed by the Justices at oral argument. Most recently he submitted an amicus brief to the US Supreme Court in Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt (the Texas abortion case, on behalf of himself, Melissa Murray, and B. Jessie Hill).

Cohen was selected as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow for the 2012–2013 year and by the Greenwall Foundation to receive a Faculty Scholar Award in Bioethics. He is also a Fellow at the Hastings Center, the leading bioethics think tank in the United States. He is currently one of the key co-investigators on a multi-million Football Players Health Study at Harvard which is committed to improving the health of NFL players. He leads the Ethics and Law initiative as part of the multi-million dollar NIH funded Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center program. He is also one of three editors-in-chief of the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, a peer-reviewed journal published by Oxford University Press and serves on the editorial board for the American Journal of Bioethics. He serves on the Steering Committee for Ethics for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Canadian counterpart to the NIH.

Rebecca Richman Cohen ’07 Rebecca Richman Cohen has been a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School since 2011. She is an Emmy Award nominated documentary filmmaker with experience in human rights, criminal defense, and drug policy reform. Rebecca was profiled in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces in Independent Film as an “up-and-comer poised to shape the next generation of independent film.” Her films have won awards at film festivals including SXSW and Tribeca and have been broadcast on networks including HBO, public television, and Al Jazeera. She has taught classes at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), American University’s Human Rights Institute, and most recently at Columbia University. Rebecca earned a BA in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University, and a JD from Harvard Law School. She was a 2012–2013 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2015–2016 fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Ron P. Davis ’12 Ron Davis is the CEO of Tenacity, a technology startup that uses behavioral and social network science to improve employee performance and retention. Ron led Tenacity's fundraising efforts, and supports Tenacity’s leaders in product management, sales, marketing and operations. He is on the Sound Transit Citizen Oversight Panel, which provides accountability and transparency for the regional Seattle public transportation organization. He was recently honored by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce with a position in the Young American Leaders Program, hosted at HBS. Ron has also recently started working with the Seattle Chamber’s Policy Leadership Group. Ron speaks on employee quality of life, customer experience, and on the proper way to account for the costs of employee attrition. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Trina, a physician, and their two young boys, Dane and Coren.

Justin Dillon ’02 Justin Dillon is a partner at KaiserDillon PLLC, a litigation boutique in Washington, DC. He has represented dozens of students nationwide in campus disciplinary matters and has been published or quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more than a dozen other publications. He was the first lawyer in the country to win summary judgment for an accused student in a campus sexual assault lawsuit, which he did against George Mason University in 2016. Before joining the firm, Justin spent more than five years as an Assistant US Attorney in Washington, DC, and also served in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. At Harvard, Justin was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and captain of the winning team in the Ames Moot Court.

Sean M. Doherty ’97 Sean Doherty joined Bain Capital in 2005 and is a Managing Director and the firm’s General Counsel. Earlier in his career, he was an attorney at Ropes & Gray LLP and a law clerk to the Honorable Patti Saris on the federal District Court in Boston. Prior to attending Harvard Law School, he was a Lieutenant in the US Navy, in which he served on a Middle East Force frigate from 1990-94, and a speech writer for the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress in Costa Rica. Sean is a member of the International Board of Directors of JDRF, the global leader in research to treat, prevent and cure Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). He is also the chairman of the board of directors of JDRF’s T1D Fund, a venture philanthropy vehicle devoted to early-stage commercial investing in T1D.

He is a leader of the Bain Capital Community Partnership and a member of the board of Expedition Balance, an organization focused on holistic recovery for veterans with PTSD. Sean is a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School and an active participant in the 1L Problem Solving Workshop. In addition to his Harvard Law education, Sean graduated from Harvard College in 1990 with a concentration in American Government.

T.J. Duane ’02 T.J. Duane is a serial entrepreneur and former practicing attorney. He currently heads BrightCrowd, a VC backed, next generation professional networking application. Prior to BrightCrowd, Mr. Duane co-founded Lateral Link, a web-based legal jobs platform. He also developed HL Central while he was a 1L at HLS. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Law School Association and chairs the HLSA Entrepreneurs Network.

Mr. Duane began his career as a corporate attorney at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. T.J. has spoken at universities across the country on entrepreneurship, has appeared on CNN and been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, American Lawyer, the National Law Journal, Business Week and Business Insider. In addition to his JD from Harvard Law, he holds a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Len Elmore ’87 Len Elmore is a former basketball All-American at The University of Maryland at College Park, a ten-year professional basketball player, an attorney and a television personality whose professional experience spans a rich athletic career, several prestigious law firms as well as significant business and public interest endeavors.

Mr. Elmore was named among The Atlantic Coast Conference’s Top 50 Greatest Basketball Players in 2002. In 1974, he was a first round draft pick in both the ABA and the NBA.

Upon conclusion of his basketball career in 1984, Elmore received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1987 as the first NBA player to graduate from that institution. Len has served as a prosecutor in Kings County (Brooklyn) NY, Counsel and Partner at several law firms and the owner and lead sports agent at Precept Sports & Entertainment. He has also served in the capacity of Chief Executive Officer of Test University, an online, standardized test preparation company, principally serving disadvantaged students and school districts and iHoops, a joint venture of the NBA and NCAA whose mission was to enhance the experience and culture of youth basketball.

Currently, Len serves as a director on the boards of two public companies, several charitable organizations and is a Commissioner on the Knight Commission for Intercollegiate Athletics reform. He is a noted speaker on sports & culture and sports law issues and has published numerous articles and opinion pieces. Len has further enjoyed a 28-year career as a network basketball commentator for Raycom Sports, CBS and ESPN and now, Fox Sports.

Len Elmore has received numerous awards recognizing his commitment to community, education and justice. Most recent among those community and industry honors, in April, 2015, Len was awarded The Street & Smith Sports Business Journal’s coveted Champions: Pioneer and Innovator Award honoring individuals who have had a unique and lasting impact on sports and the business of sport.

Daniel Farbman ’07 Daniel S. Farbman is currently working on his doctoral degree in the American Studies Program at Harvard. His academic work builds on his law practice by addressing questions of radicalism and reform at the intersection between legal and literary history.

After graduating from Harvard Law School in 2007, he spent a year clerking on the Central District of California in Los Angeles before beginning a Skadden Fellowship at Advancement Project in Washington, DC. At the Advancement Project, he worked with community organizers around the country on grassroots efforts to fight racial injustice in public education – with a particular focus on the school to prison pipeline. While at Harvard Law School, among other activities, he was Editor- in-Chief of the Civil Rights - Civil Liberties Law Review.

After graduating from Amherst College in 2001, he spent a few years in New York City trying (and failing) to make it as a professional actor.

Mark C. Fleming ’97 Mark C. Fleming is a partner in the Boston office of WilmerHale, where is Vice-Chair of the firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation practice group. Mark is an experienced appellate litigator who has personally argued five appeals before the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as two dozen appeals before the US Courts of Appeals for the First, Third, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, District of Columbia, and Federal Circuits, and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals Court.

Previously, Mark clerked for the Honorable David H. Souter ’66 of the Supreme Court of the United States, the Honorable Michael Boudin ’64 of the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and the Honorable John C. Major of the Supreme Court of Canada. Mark also served as an associate legal officer in the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. During law school, Mark was an Executive Editor of the Harvard Law Review and repeatedly humiliated himself as a performing member of the Harvard Law School Drama Society.

Jesse M. Fried ’92 Jesse M. Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2009, Fried was a Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) at the University of California Berkeley. Fried has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School, Duisenberg School of Finance, Hebrew University, IDC Herzilya, and Tel Aviv University. He holds an AB and AM in Economics from Harvard University, and a JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. His well-known book, Pay without Performance: the Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation, co-authored with Lucian Bebchuk, has been widely acclaimed by both academics and practitioners and translated into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian. Fried has served as a consultant and expert witness in litigation involving executive compensation and corporate governance issues. He also serves on the Research Advisory Council of proxy advisor Glass, Lewis & Co.

Jeannie Suk Gersen ’02 Jeannie Suk Gersen is the John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she has taught criminal law and procedure, family law, and the law of art, fashion, and the performing arts. Before joining the faculty in 2006, she served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court, and to Judge Harry Edwards on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She was educated at Yale (B.A. 1995), and at Oxford (D.Phil 1999) where she was a Marshall Scholar, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School (J.D. 2002). She has written three books and many articles in scholarly journals and general media. Her book, At Home in the Law, was awarded the Law and Society Association's Herbert Jacob Prize for the best law and society book of the year. She has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a fellow of the MacDowell Colony, and a recipient of Harvard Law School's Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence. She is a Contributing Writer for NewYorker.com.

Michael J. Gregory ’04 Michael Gregory is Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches and practices law as part of the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI). TLPI is a partnership between Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Advocates for Children. TLPI’s mission is to ensure that children traumatized by exposure to violence succeed in school. Professor Gregory is a co-author of both volumes of TLPI’s landmark report, Helping Traumatized Children Learn, and is also a co-author of Educational Rights of Children Affected by Homelessness and/or Domestic Violence, a manual for child advocates. At HLS, he co-teaches the Education Law Clinic with Susan Cole, in which law students represent individual families of traumatized children in the special education system and engage in systemic advocacy in education reform at the state level. In conjunction with the clinic, he co-teaches with Ms. Cole the seminars “Education Advocacy and Systemic Change: Children at Risk” and “Legislative Lawyering in Education Law.” Professor Gregory has also taught Education Law and Policy and Education Reform Movements.

Professor Gregory received his JD from Harvard Law School in 2004, graduating cum laude. He also graduated magna cum laude with a BA in American Civilization from Brown University in 1998, and an MA in Teaching, also from Brown University, in 1999. He was the recipient of a Skadden Fellowship in 2004.

Chadwick Allen Ho ’97 Chadwick Ho is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Hulu. As the chief legal officer, Chad oversees the company’s legal, business affairs, and regulatory matters, including corporate governance and operations, compliance, mergers and acquisitions, business transactions, intellectual property, litigation and public policy. Chad also serves as the Corporate Secretary at meetings of Hulu’s Board of Directors. He has 20 years of experience advising media and technology companies. Prior to joining Hulu, Chad was the Deputy General Counsel of MySpace, and Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for Fox Interactive Media after it acquired MySpace. Before that, he worked as Senior Counsel of ABC Studios negotiating talent, development, production and distribution deals. Chad began his career in private practice at Latham & Watkins and O’Melveny & Myers after clerking for the US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit. In addition to his Harvard Law degree, Chad received a BA in Psychology with distinction from Stanford University.

Nadim Homsany ’02 Nadim Homsany is son of immigrants who arrived in the US with virtually nothing. His upbringing instilled in him a passion for helping people build financial resilience and independence. Prior to EarnUp, Nadim worked at Serent Capital, a $600M private equity firm, focused on tech-enabled services. Prior to Serent, Nadim led investments with NCB Capital, a $12B asset manager. Before this, Nadim worked at McKinsey & Company consulting large banks. Nadim also practiced IP and technology law at Kirkland & Ellis. Nadim holds a JD degree from Harvard Law School and graduated with highest honors from Rutgers University. Neil S. Jahss ’92 Neil Jahss is a Supervising Producer on The Amazing Race. A three-time Emmy Award winner, Neil has worked primarily in post-production on the last 16 seasons of CBS long-running reality competition program. Previously, he worked in casting, formatting, challenging producing in the field, and in post production on CBS’s Big Brother, Fox’s Trading Spouses and Fox’s The Partner.

Before transitioning to reality television production, Neil was counsel for many years at O’Melveny & Myers, where he specialized in First Amendment media defense and intellectual property litigation for magazines, television networks and film studios, and recruited at Harvard Law School. In addition to his Harvard Law education, Neil holds a degree from the University of Virginia in Interdisciplinary Studies.

Rachel Herrick Kassabian ’97 Rachel Herrick Kassabian is Chair of Quinn Emanuel’s Internet Litigation Practice. She joined the firm in 2001 when it had 3 offices within California; Quinn Emanuel now has 20 offices around the globe. She represents companies in a wide range of intellectual property and commercial litigation matters, with a special focus on Internet technology and Internet sector businesses. Her areas of expertise include copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, trademark and trade dress infringement, privacy, false advertising, unfair competition, and other IP-related disputes. In particular, over the past decade Ms. Kassabian has successfully defended various well-known service providers asserting safe harbor under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. She regularly advises startups and other tech clients, big and small, on intellectual property issues and best practices, to help them minimize and manage risk while they grow their businesses.

Chris Kelly ’97 Chris Kelly is a Silicon Valley attorney with a long track record of building innovative companies and making the Internet a safer place for kids and adults alike. As the first Chief Privacy Officer, General Counsel, and Head of Global Public Policy for Facebook, Chris helped the company grow from its college roots to the ubiquitous communications medium that it is today. Chris’ development of the site’s safety and security policies around real world identity and deployment of a highly-trained staff for rule and law enforcement are credited as critical elements in the company’s success.

Chris left Facebook in 2009 to seek the Democratic nomination for Attorney General of California, garnering 16 percent of the vote in a seven-way race, his first run for statewide office. Since the June 2010 primary, he has become an active investor in companies seeking transformational improvements in technology, media, and finance. Currently, he serves as Chair of Fandor, a streaming media company focused on independent film and visual expression, and Executive Vice Chair of LOYAL3, a financial services company, both based in San Francisco.

In 2013, Chris joined a group of California investors who purchased the Sacramento Kings of the NBA. As a member of the group’s executive board, Chris contributes his expertise in technology and management to basketball operations as well as the team’s development of the Golden1 Center, which will be the most advanced arena in sports when it opens in October 2016.

As an attorney in private practice before his time at Facebook, Chris represented Netscape in the Microsoft antitrust case and Diamond Multimedia in the groundbreaking suit over the MP3 player that furthered personal use rights over digital content. Chris received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, a master’s degree from Yale University, and his law degree from Harvard University. Chris also serves on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco 49ers Academy, an alternative public middle school in East Palo Alto, and as Chair of the New Leaders Council, a nationwide leadership training program for young progressives.

Felicia H. Kung ’87 Felicia H. Kung is the Chief of the Office of Rulemaking in the Division of Corporation Finance at the US Securities and Exchange Commission. She is responsible for leading rulemaking projects to revise current rules or implement new rules that affect issuers of securities. She previously served as Senior International Counsel in the Division. In that capacity, she chaired the Disclosure Subcommittee of Standing Committee No.1 (Multinational Disclosure and Accounting) of the International Organization of Securities Commissions, which under her leadership developed IOSCO disclosure principles for cross-border offerings and listings of debt securities, as well as for periodic reports by listed companies.

For over 10 years, she served as a US representative to the OECD Steering Group on Corporate Governance, which developed the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance. She also previously served as counsel to an SEC Commissioner, and as a senior counsel in the SEC’s Office of the General Counsel and Division of Investment Management. She has received several awards for her work at the SEC, including the Federal Bar Association’s Philip A. Loomis, Jr. Award. Before joining the staff of the Commission, Felicia clerked for the Honorable Jesse E. Eschbach of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and was an associate at a Chicago law firm. She received her JD from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, where she received her BA in Economics.

Marsha Levick ’92 Marsha Levick, Deputy Director and Chief Counsel, co-founded Juvenile Law Center in 1975. Throughout her legal career, Levick has been an advocate for children’s and women’s rights and is a nationally recognized expert in juvenile law. Levick oversees Juvenile Law Center’s litigation and appellate docket. She has successfully litigated challenges to unlawful and harmful laws, policies and practices on behalf of children in both the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Levick also spearheaded Juvenile Law Center’s litigation arising out of the Luzerne County, Pennsylvania juvenile court judges’ corruption scandal, known as the “kids for cash” scandal, where Juvenile Law Center successfully sought the expungement and vacatur of thousands of juveniles’ cases before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and is pursuing civil damages for the children and their families in a federal civil rights class action.

Levick has authored or co-authored numerous appellate and amicus briefs in state and federal appeals courts throughout the country, including many before the US Supreme Court, and has argued before both state and federal appellate courts in Pennsylvania and numerous other jurisdictions. Levick co-authored the lead child advocates’ amicus briefs in key recent United States Supreme Court cases, including Roper v. Simmons (juvenile death penalty unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment); Graham v. Florida (life without parole sentences for juveniles convicted of non-homicide offenses unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment); J.D.B. v North Carolina ( a juvenile’s age is relevant to the Miranda custody analysis under the Fifth Amendment); and Miller v. Alabama (mandatory sentences of life without parole for juveniles convicted of homicide offenses unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment). Levick also served as co-counsel in Montgomery v Louisiana, where the Supreme Court ruled Miller retroactive throughout the country. Levick is a frequent speaker and lecturer on children’s rights nationwide, and has also co-authored numerous scholarly articles on children’s rights.

Levick serves on the boards of the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, and is a member of the Dean's Council, Indiana University School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Levick was a finalist for The Legal Intelligencer 2016 Attorney of the Year. Levick is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Temple University Law School. Levick is currently an adjunct faculty member at Temple University Beasley School of Law.

Michael R. Lufrano ’92 Michael R. Lufrano is executive vice president, community affairs and chief legal officer for the Chicago Cubs. Lufrano joined the team in July 2004 and is responsible for Cubs’ community affairs, government relations, communications, neighborhood relations and charitable activities. He also serves as chief legal officer for the team.

In his time with the Cubs, Lufrano has led efforts to develop and maintain positive relations with the community around Wrigley Field, including neighborhood elected officials, residents and businesses. These relationships have helped gain City Council and Landmarks Commission approval for renovations of Wrigley Field, including more than $750 million in private investment in development inside and outside the ballpark and a new night game and neighborhood protection ordinance authorizing additional night baseball games and bringing musical concerts to Wrigley Field while protecting the community.

Lufrano is actively involved in community service and has spearheaded significant expansion of Cubs Charities. Investments in projects such as Kerry Wood Cubs Field and Margaret Donahue Park are lasting legacies in the Lake View community. Cubs Charities’ three signature programs – the Diamond Project, Cubs Scholars and Cubs on the Move Fitness Program - promote health, fitness and education through the city. Other baseball diamonds like Little Cubs Field at Humboldt Park, Cubs Care Legends Field at Hamlin Park and renovations to Thillens Stadium are a further part of the Cubs partnership with the City of Chicago. Since Lufrano joined the team, Cubs charitable efforts have donated more than $1 million a year, and more than $3 million each of the last two years, to help organizations serving Chicago and its communities. He also initiated the annual Race to Wrigley which promotes health and fitness in our community while raising funds to support Cubs Charities.

From 1993–95, Lufrano served in the White House as special assistant to the President and deputy director of advance. He helped coordinate and implement daily and long-term schedules for the President and First Lady and helped produce and design White House trips and events, including President Clinton’s trip to Normandy in 1994 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of D-Day. Lufrano has worked on national presidential campaigns and served as Convention Hall Director for the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in 1996.

Lufrano is also an active participant in community activities. He serves as past chair of the Board of Trustees of the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School in Lakeview. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the Chicago bar Association and has served on the board of directors of the Lakeview Citizens Council, the East Lakeview Neighbors Association and is past-president of the Wrightwood Neighbors community association. He is a graduate of the Leadership Greater Chicago Class of 2002.

Prior to joining the Cubs, Lufrano worked as an attorney in the Chicago office of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal where his practice focused on intellectual property, media and First Amendment law, Internet law and commercial litigation. He has also worked in the office of the corporation counsel for the city of Atlanta, Georgia.

Lufrano is a longtime resident of Chicago and a graduate of Lane Technical High School. He graduated magna cum laude with a BA in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Loretta E. Lynch ’84 Loretta E. Lynch was sworn in as the 83rd Attorney General of the United States by Vice President Joe Biden on April 27, 2015. President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Ms. Lynch on November 8, 2014.

Ms. Lynch received her AB, cum laude, from Harvard College in 1981, and her JD from Harvard Law School in 1984. In 1990, after a period in private practice, Ms. Lynch joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, located in Brooklyn, New York—the city she considers her adopted home. There, she forged an impressive career prosecuting cases involving narcotics, violent crimes, public corruption, and civil rights. In one notable instance, she served on the prosecution team in the high-profile civil rights case of Abner Louima, the Haitian immigrant who was sexually assaulted by uniformed police officers in a Brooklyn police precinct in 1997.

In 1999, President Clinton appointed her to lead the office as United States Attorney—a post she held until 2001. In 2002, she joined Hogan & Hartson LLP (now Hogan Lovells) as a partner in the firm’s New York office. While in private practice, Ms. Lynch performed extensive pro bono work for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, established to prosecute those responsible for human rights violations in the 1994 genocide in that country. As Special Counsel to the Tribunal, she was responsible for investigating allegations of witness tampering and false testimony.

In 2010, President Obama asked Ms. Lynch to resume her leadership of the US Attorney’s Office in Brooklyn. Under her direction, the office successfully prosecuted numerous corrupt public officials, terrorists, cybercriminals and human traffickers, among other important cases.

Ms. Lynch is the daughter of Lorenzo and Lorine Lynch of Durham, NC, a retired minister and a librarian whose commitment to justice and public service has been the inspiration for her life’s work.

Ms. Lynch enjoys spending her free time with her husband, Stephen Hargrove, and their two children.

Susan Vivian Mangold ’87 Sue Mangold joined Juvenile Law Center in October 2015 and is a Professor Emeritus at SUNY Buffalo Law School where she taught for over 20 years and served as Vice Dean for Academics. Her teaching and scholarship were focused on the area of Children and the Law. Sue was also Chair of SUNY’s Strategic Strength in Civic Engagement and Public Policy, and she brings her expertise in community-based research to Juvenile Law Center.

She is co-editor of West Publishing’s casebook, Children and the Law: Doctrine, Policy and Practice (5th Edition, 2014). The author of numerous articles on the child welfare system, Sue was the primary investigator on a project funded by the Public Health Law Research Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study the impact of different types of funding on long- term outcomes for children in foster care.

Mangold is a graduate of Harvard College where she founded Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program (now Summer Urban Programs), and of Harvard Law School, where she was Executive Director of Harvard Legal Aid and co-founder of the Children’s Rights Project. Upon graduation, Sue received a Harvard Law School Public Interest Fellowship to work at Juvenile Law Center in 1987, where she worked as a staff attorney for five years. Before law school, Sue was Program Director at a Girls Club in Massachusetts, providing afterschool services to inner city girls, many of whom were involved in the child welfare and justice systems.

Fatma E. Marouf ’02 Fatma E. Marouf is a Professor of Law and Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Texas A&M School of Law. She previously taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law, where she co-directed the Immigration Clinic. Professor Marouf’s scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in leading journals, including the Georgetown Law Journal, Boston University Law Review, and Washington University Law Review.

She was named a Bellow Scholar for her empirical research on the adjudication of immigration appeals in the federal courts. Professor Marouf has extensive experience representing immigrants at all levels of adjudication and has served as a consultant to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She is a candidate for a Master of Public Health degree in Epidemiology from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (expected ’17).

Zachary S. McGee ’97 Zach McGee is Senior Vice President, Business Affairs, for Sony Pictures Entertainment in Culver City where he leads worldwide business affairs for Sony’s home entertainment division. Before moving to Sony, Mr. McGee was the Senior Vice President, Head of Business & Legal Affairs at Miramax, a leading independent film and television studio. Before joining Miramax, Mr. McGee was a Vice President, Legal Affairs, with NBC Universal, Inc. Prior to moving in-house, Mr. McGee was an associate with Davis Polk. He clerked for the Honorable Michael B. Mukasey, Chief Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Mr. McGee is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and he received his Masters of Business Administration from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Naz K. Modirzadeh ’02 Naz K. Modirzadeh is the founding Director of the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC). In May 2016, she was appointed as a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, having previously joined the HLS faculty as a Lecturer on Law in Fall 2014. In the Spring 2017 term she is teaching Public International Law as well as International Law, Policy and Decision-Making in War: Advanced Seminar. At PILAC, Modirzadeh is responsible for overall direction of the Program, collaboration with the Faculty Director and other affiliated faculty, development of research initiatives, and engagement with key decision-makers in the armed forces, humanitarian organizations, government, and intergovernmental organizations.

Modirzadeh regularly advises and briefs international humanitarian organizations, UN agencies, and governments on issues related to international humanitarian law, human rights, and counterterrorism regulations relating to humanitarian assistance. For more than a decade, she has carried out legal research and policy work concerning a number of armed conflict situations. Her recent scholarship and research focus on intersections between the fields of international humanitarian law and international human rights law. She frequently contributes to academic and professional initiatives in the areas of humanitarian action, counterterrorism, and the laws of war.

In addition to taking part in several expert advisory groups for UN research initiatives, Modirzadeh is a non-resident Research Fellow at the Stockton Center for the Study of International Law at the Naval War College and a non-resident Research Associate in the Humanitarian Policy Group of the Overseas Development Institute. She is also on the Board of Trustees of the International Crisis Group, on the Advisory Board of Geneva Call, and on Board of Directors of the International Association of Professionals in Humanitarian Assistance and Protection (PHAP). She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and her JD from Harvard Law School.

Sheela Murthy ’87 Sheela Murthy is the Founder, President and CEO of the Murthy Law Firm since 1994. Ms. Murthy completed her Master’s in Law (LL.M) from Harvard Law School. Chambers Global recognized the Murthy Law Firm among the world’s leading US immigration law firms. The Firm helps large, small and mid-size employers, including, Fortune 500s, Hospitals, Universities, and technology companies, as well as families pursuing their great American Dream. The Firm has affiliate offices in India. MurthyDotCom (www.murthy.com) is regarded as among the world’s most visited law firm websites.

Among Ms. Murthy’s awards and recognitions are: the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, Global Leadership Award by the State of Maryland, Innovator of the Year, 50 Most Influential Marylanders, and AV rating (highest) rating by Martindale Hubbell. Sheela Murthy serves on the following boards, including the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, Harvard Law School’s Dean’s Advisory Committee, JHPIEGO, the Maryland Chamber of Commerce, and Stevenson University. She and her husband, Vasant Nayak, co-founded the MurthyNAYAK Foundation in 2001, dedicated to the support of socially transformative projects to make the world a better place.

Jonathon Nevett ’92 Jon Nevett is a veteran of the Internet domain name industry. He co-founded Donuts Inc. in 2010 and helped to raise in excess of $150M to form the largest registry of Internet domain extensions. He currently serves as its EVP for Corporate Affairs and on its Board of Directors. Jon also is a founding Board member of the Domain Name Association, the domain name industry's trade association. Previously, Jon served as President at Domain Dimensions, Senior Vice President at Network Solutions, Director at MCI and as an associate at the law firm of Kirkland and Ellis.

Among other responsibilities, Jon represents Donuts at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a quasi-government entity that coordinates the Domain Name System. Jon has served on numerous ICANN task forces, working groups, and panels. Most recently, he served on ICANN’s IANA Stewardship Transition Coordination Group (ICG), the group tasked with steering the move of this function from the United States Government to the global multi- stakeholder community. He also helped to form and served as the first Chair of the New gTLD Applicant Group (NTAG). Related to trademark protection on the Internet, Jon has served for four years on the International Trademark Association’s Internet Committee. In 2009, Jon was appointed to the US Department of Commerce’s Online Safety and Technology Working Group related to issues of child safety and the Internet.

Jon received his JD from Harvard Law School in 1992 and his undergraduate degree from Binghamton University in 1988.

Noah Purcell ’07 Noah Purcell was appointed Washington State Solicitor General in 2013. In that role he has represented the State in some of its most important appellate matters in state and federal courts, including arguing for the State in Washington v. Trump, the State’s successful challenge to the President’s first travel ban Executive Order. Prior to becoming Solicitor General, Noah was in private practice at Perkins Coie in Seattle, where he specialized in constitutional law, election law, and antitrust issues. He had previously served in the Department of Homeland Security Office of General Counsel, where he worked on a range of security and immigration issues.

Noah is a Seattle native and received his undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Washington. He then obtained a Masters in Economics from University College Dublin. He received his law degree at Harvard ’07, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Noah then served as a law clerk to Judge David Tatel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and to Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court. Noah lives in Seattle with his wife, Jasmin, and their 4-year old son and 2-year old daughter.

Edith Ramirez ’92 Edith Ramirez was sworn in as a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission in April 2010 and served as Chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission from March 2013 to January 2017. At the FTC, Chairwoman Ramirez has focused on promoting competition and innovation in the technology and healthcare sectors, protecting consumers from deceptive and unfair practices, and safeguarding consumer privacy. Before joining the FTC, Chairwoman Ramirez was a partner in the Los Angeles office of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, where she litigated complex business disputes, including intellectual property, antitrust, unfair competition, and advertising matters. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and Harvard College.

Johnathan Robertson ’97 Johnathan Robertson is the President and Managing Director of TG Capital. Prior to joining TG in 1999, Johnathan was a consultant with McKinsey & Company. Johnathan received his graduate degree from Harvard Law School and his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina where he played football, was named to the USA Today All- Academic Team, and was North Carolina’s Rhodes Scholar selection. Johnathan is the husband of Shannon Robertson and father of three children. Shannon is a graduate of Harvard Business School and a former Trustee for Stanford University’s Alumni Board of Trustees. Johnathan additionally serves as a Trustee for the United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation, as a Director for the I Have A Dream Foundation, and as a member of the Harvard Schools Committee.

Kent L. Sevener ’92 Kent L. Sevener is the Head of Content Acquisition for Showtime Networks Inc. His team is responsible for sourcing and acquiring narrative films, documentaries, concerts, stand-up comedy specials and sports programming for exhibition on the company’s pay television and internet services. In addition to his degree from Harvard Law School, Kent received an AB in Economics from The University of Michigan, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Rob Simmelkjaer ’97 Rob Simmelkjaer has served as Senior Vice President of NBC Sports Ventures since September of 2011. NBC Sports Ventures is a division of NBC Sports Group, which forms joint venture partnerships and makes minority investments in a wide variety of sports-related businesses. He also works closely with Comcast Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Comcast.

In addition to his position as Senior Vice President, NBC Sports Ventures, Mr. Simmelkjaer serves as an on-air contributor across multiple NBCUniversal platforms, including NBC Sports, NBCSN, NBC Sports Radio, NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC. He anchored MSNBC’s coverage of the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. Prior to joining NBC, Mr. Simmelkjaer served in a variety of roles at ESPN from 2003–2011. Prior to his tenure at ESPN, Simmelkjaer practiced law at two New York firms, Weil, Gotshal and Manges from 2000-2001, and Cravath, Swaine & Moore from 1997–2000.

Rob joined the board of directors of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (CSGV) in 2016. CSGV is Washington, DC based 501(c)(4) organization that was founded in 1974. It seeks to secure freedom from gun violence through research, strategic engagement and effective policy advocacy. Simmelkjaer also serves on the board of directors of the Child Center of NY, and is a member of the Zoning Board of Appeals in Westport, CT.

Jessica Soban ’07 Jessica Soban is the Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Admissions at HLS. Jessica graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Government in 2002 and is a graduate of HLS, Class of 2007. While she was a student at HLS, Jessica focused her studies in corporate and transactional law, and she was a member of La Alianza and Tax Help (pro bono tax prep). Prior to attending HLS, Jessica was an Associate Consultant at Bain & Company in the Boston office. Jessica also returned to Bain after graduation from HLS. In her five years post-graduation, Jessica worked in Bain’s Retail, CPG & Industrial Practice Areas, and finally as a Manager in the Private Equity Group. Jessica was also active in recruiting and professional development at Bain, serving as the Head of Diversity Recruitment for North America in her final year at the firm. Jessica was thrilled when the opportunity arose to come back and serve at HLS. She works closely with the Dean, Faculty, current students and alumni to recruit, admit and enroll top legal talent to HLS while also facilitating school efforts to educate global legal thinkers in continually improving ways.

Holger Spamann S.J.D. ’09 Holger Spamann is Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches corporate law and corporate finance. His research focuses on the law and economics of corporate governance and financial markets, judicial behavior, and comparative law. Before embarking on his academic career, he practiced with Debevoise & Plimpton in New York and clerked for two years in Europe. He holds too many degrees, among them a PhD in economics from Harvard University.

Laura Stein ’87 Laura Stein serves as executive vice president - general counsel & corporate affairs of The Clorox Company, a global consumer packaged goods company. She is responsible for Clorox's global legal, compliance, corporate responsibility, government and community affairs, communications, enterprise risk management, internal audit, crisis management and business continuity planning matters. Laura was previously senior vice president - general counsel of H. J. Heinz Company and an attorney with the law firm of Morrison & Foerster. Laura is a director and chair of the corporate governance committee of the board of Franklin Resources, Inc. (BEN), a global investment management firm known as Franklin Templeton Investments, and a director of Canadian National Railway (CN), a North American transportation company.

She is co-chair of Corporate Pro Bono, chair of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity and past chair of Equal Justice Works. Stein serves on the Harvard Law School Visiting Committee, the American Law Institute Council, the Legal Services Corporation Leaders Council and the Board of Managerial Trustees of the International Association of Women Judges. In addition to her Harvard Law education, Laura holds Bachelor of Arts and Master's degrees from Dartmouth College.

Margaret D. Stock ’92 Margaret D. Stock, Lieutenant Colonel (retired), is an attorney with the Anchorage office of Cascadia Cross Border Law Group LLC, where she devotes her practice to immigration and citizenship matters. She transferred to the Retired Reserve of the U.S. Army in June 2010 after serving 28 years as a Military Police Officer in the Army Reserve. While a part-time professor and Reservist assigned to the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY, Ms. Stock was temporarily asked to work for the U.S. Army Accessions Command, where she developed and implemented the Department of Defense’s recruiting program, Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI). Ms. Stock also worked on many other issues related to immigration, citizenship, and military service, including the Basic Training Naturalization initiative, which allows immigrants to naturalize at military basic training sites. In 2008, she earned the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Pro Bono Award for founding the AILA Military Assistance Program (AILA MAP), a pro bono program to help military members, veterans, and their families with immigration law matters. She was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2013 for her work related to immigration and national security issues. Finally, Ms. Stock was the Independent candidate for the United States Senate in Alaska in 2016.

Ms. Stock has testified before Congress numerous times on issues such as the DREAM Act, the guestworker program, and the Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation (HALT) Act. She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard- Radcliffe and holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School, and a Master’s in Strategic Studies from the Army War College. Ms. Stock is admitted to practice law in the state of Alaska, the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska, and the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She has also served as a member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration. She authored the book, Immigration Law & the Military, published by the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

Hanna Stotland ’02 Hanna Stotland ’02 is has been an admissions consultant since 1999. Hanna flunked out of high school, got a GED, and worked for two years before returning to college and eventually finding her way to Harvard. She now specializes in serving students facing educational crisis as a result of school discipline, mental illness, substance abuse, etc. She has worked with dozens of students accused of sexual misconduct under Title IX.

After graduating from HLS, Hanna served as a judicial clerk to the Hon. Elaine E. Bucklo of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and to the Hon. Ann C. Williams of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Hanna was also an associate at the law firms of Jenner & Block and Stowell & Friedman. Hanna served as the President of the Harvard Law Society of Illinois in 2015. Hanna received her undergraduate degree in Psychology, Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College in 1999.

Alan K. Tse ’97 Alan K. Tse is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Petco, the pet specialty retailer with over 1500 stores in the United States and Mexico and a leading online pet supplies retailer in petco.com and drsfostersmith.com. Mr. Tse is in charge of all legal, compliance and regulatory affairs matters for the Company as well as manages the procurement and internal audit functions. Prior to Petco, Mr. Tse was the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Churchill Downs, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHDN) In addition to the Kentucky Derby, Churchill Downs also owns and operates casinos and thoroughbred racetracks throughout the country. Churchill Downs also is the owner and operator of Big Fish Games, one of the largest mobile games publishers in the world and Twinspires.com the largest legal on-line wagering company in the United States.

Mr. Tse was formerly Vice President and General Counsel of LG Electronics MobileComm USA, Inc. where Mr. Tse was responsible for all legal and regulatory matters for LG’s $5 Billion mobile phone business in North America and sat on the company’s senior management committee. Prior to joining LG, Mr. Tse was the Vice President and General Counsel of Ligos Corporation, a venture capital backed software company based in Silicon Valley and prior to Ligos, Mr. Tse was the Vice President of Strategic Development and General Counsel of Centerpoint Broadband Technologies, Inc., a Silicon Valley telecommunication equipment company. Mr. Tse started his career as a business and technology attorney at Brobeck Phleger and Harrison LLP in their Silicon Valley office representing technology companies and venture capitalists. Mr. Tse serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Corporate Counsel and chairs its Advocacy Committee and is the co-founder and serves on the Board of the Asian American Legal Foundation.

Mr. Tse was named one of the best lawyers under 40 by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association in 2005 and was named as a Top General Counsel to Watch by NYSE’s Corporate Board Member magazine in 2012. He holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley where he earned Phi Beta Kappa honors and graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School.

Dehlia Umunna Dehlia Umunna is a Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School), and the Deputy Director of the law school’s Criminal Justice Institute (CJI), where she supervises third year law students in their representation of adult and juvenile clients in criminal and juvenile proceedings in the Massachusetts Courts. She teaches in the areas of Criminal Defense and Theory, Mass Incarceration and Race Issues. Professor Umunna coaches the HLS National Criminal Justice Trial Advocacy Team and the HLS Black Law Student Association Trial Teams, and has led them to numerous national and regional awards. In addition to her work at HLS, Professor Umunna serves as a faculty member for Gideon’s Promise (formerly the Southern Public Defender’s Training Center), and is a frequent presenter at Public Defender Training Conferences around the country.

In September 2014, Professor Umunna received the Harvard Law School 2014 Dean’s Award for Excellence, in recognition of her outstanding service to the HLS community where she has excelled as student supervisor, staff manager, lecturer, coach, and mentor.

Prior to coming to Harvard, Professor Umunna spent seven years at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia (PDS) as a trial attorney. At PDS, she was a felony one trial attorney, representing indigent clients in hundreds of cases from misdemeanor charges of theft, assault, and drug possession, to kidnapping, child sexual abuse, rape, to homicide. Some of Professor Umunna’s cases received nationwide media attention. She also served as a presenter in training attorneys under the District of Columbia Criminal Justice Act.

From 2002 to 2007, Professor Umunna was an Adjunct Professor of Law and Practitioner in Residence at American University, Washington College of Law. She was also a board member of the District of Columbia Law Students in Court Clinic, and a guest lecturer for several years at the George Washington University Law School.

Professor Umunna is a member of the Massachusetts, Maryland, and District of Columbia Bar Associations. She earned her BA in Communication from California State University, a JD from George Washington University Law School, and a Masters in Public Administration (MC) from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Her article “Rethinking the Neighborhood Watch: How Lessons from Nigerian Villages Can Creatively Empower Communities to Assist Low-Income, Single Mothers In America,” was recently published in the American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law. (Volume 20, Number 4). She is the very proud mother of daughter, Ifeanyi and son, Edozie.