SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

Leo Angelakos ’17 Leo Angelakos is a third year law student and who works with the Cyberlaw Clinic and the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (JOLT), and has counseled developing countries interested in software patent reform. As part of his work, Leo recently traveled to Geneva, Switzerland to present a paper to the African Delegation to WIPO, the United Nations agency devoted to intellectual property law. Leo spent his first summer at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Silicon Valley, helping the DOJ’s CHIP unit prosecute cyberhacking cases. He spent his second summer at the Silicon Valley office of Quinn Emanuel, where he worked on high stakes intellectual property appeals, including appeals to the Supreme Court. He is 2012 graduate of . At Stanford, Leo worked at the university lab analyzing biological data in studies on bodily responses to perceived risks, and for President Obama during his 2012 re-election campaign.

Lynn Ashby-Savarese ’81 Lynn Ashby-Savarese is a photographer whose fine arts work focuses on intimate observation, and whose documentary work focuses on social justice issues. Originally from a small town in Texas, Ashby-Savarese resided and traveled throughout the world before making City her home in the early ’80s following her graduation from . After careers in corporate law and investment banking and a lengthy sabbatical to raise her family and pursue volunteer work for various human rights organizations, Ashby-Savarese finally found her passion—photography—several years ago. Since then, her fine arts photography has appeared in numerous shows and publications both in the USA and abroad, and she has won several awards and honors for her work, including having recently been named a Finalist of the Magnum Photography Awards 2016. Ashby-Savarese also works with not-for-profit organizations to help further their missions through strategic photography projects. As the co-founder and photographer for the New Abolitionists campaign – a project to combat human trafficking – she has photographed over 250 New Abolitionists, including Harvard Law School luminaries Laurence Tribe, Charles Ogletree, and Samantha Power, and over 50 survivors of human trafficking. She has also organized five exhibitions featuring New Abolitionists, including an exhibition at Harvard Law School in 2015. Ashby-Savarese has also engaged in volunteer work at HLS over the years, including having served as co- chair of the HLS Annual Fund, and co-chair of several class reunions.

Christopher T. Bavitz Christopher T. Bavitz is the WilmerHale Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he co-teaches the Counseling and Legal Strategy in the Digital Age seminar and teaches the seminar, Music & Digital Media. He is also Managing Director of HLS’s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. And, he is a Faculty Co-Director of the Berkman Klein Center. Chris concentrates his practice on intellectual property and media law, particularly in the areas of music, entertainment, and technology. He oversees many of the Clinic’s projects relating to copyright, speech, advising of startups, and the use of technology to support access to justice, and he serves as the HLS Dean’s Designate to the Harvard Innovation Lab. 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 / Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman, where he focused on copyright and trademark matters. Chris received his B.A., cum laude, from Tufts University in 1995 and his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1998.

1 Dennis N. Berman ’76 Dennis N. Berman is Co-founder and Executive Vice President, Corporate Development of Tocagen Inc., a gene therapy company. Dennis has been co-founder and/or seed investor in six publicly held companies. The most well-known of these was Intervu Inc., which delivered approximately 50% of all online video traffic when it was acquired by Akamai in 2000. Dennis was also involved in Gensia Pharmaceuticals and Viagene (both life sciences companies), and Kintera, a pioneer in Internet fundraising. In addition to his Harvard Law education, Dennis holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from The Wharton School. Dennis has been a Traphagen Distinguished Alumni Speaker at Harvard Law School, and is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab.

Gabriella Blum, LL.M. ’01, S.J.D. ’03 Gabriella Blum is the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Harvard Law School, specializing in public international law, international negotiations, the law of armed conflict, and counterterrorism. She is also the Faculty Director of the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC) and a member of the Program on Negotiation Executive Board. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty in the fall of 2005, Blum served for seven years as a Senior Legal Advisor in the International Law Department of the Military Advocate General’s Corps in the Israel Defense Forces, and for another year, as a Strategy Advisor to the Israeli National Security Council. Blum is a graduate of Tel-Aviv University (LL.B. 1995, B.A. Economics 1997) and of Harvard Law School LL.M. ’01 and S.J.D. ’03. Blum is the author of Islands of Agreement: Managing Enduring Armed Rivalries ( Press, 2007), Laws, Outlaws, and Terrorists (MIT Press, 2010) (co-authored with Philip Heymann and recipient of the Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize), and The Future of Violence: Robots and Germs, Hackers and Drones - Confronting a New Age of Threat (Basic Books, 2015) (co-authored with Benjamin Wittes and recipient of the Roy C. Palmer Civil Liberties Prize) as well as of journal articles in the fields of public international law and the law and morality of war.

David Bonderman ’66 David Bonderman is a founding partner of Texas Pacific Group (TPG), a leading global private investment firm founded in 1992 with over $74B of assets under management and offices around the world. TPG has extensive experience with global public and private investments executed through leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, spinouts, growth investments, joint ventures, and restructurings. Portfolio companies controlled by TPG have combined revenue surpassing $100B and operate in more than 100 countries. Prior to forming TPG in 1992, Mr. Bonderman was chief operating officer of the Robert M. Bass Group, Inc. Before this, he was a partner in the law firm of Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. and special assistant to the U.S. Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division. Mr. Bonderman is a director of Airbnb, Inc.; Kite Pharma, Inc.; Uber; and Ryanair Holdings, plc, of which he is chairman. In addition, he serves on the boards of The Wilderness Society, The Grand Canyon Trust, and the American Himalayan Foundation. He received his B.A. from University of Washington in 1963 and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1966, where he was a member of the and a Sheldon Fellow. Bonderman currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Law School and is a member of the Committee on University Resources (COUR).

2 Neil Chayet ’63 Neil Chayet is Co-Chair of the Harvard Law School Association Senior Advisory Network and President of the Harvard Law School Association of . He is widely known for his daily nationally-syndicated CBS radio feature, Looking at the Law. The familiar opening line, “This is Neil Chayet, Looking at the Law” has greeted listeners around the nation every weekday for more than 39 years. Since 1976, Neil has written and broadcast more than 9,500 one-minute features. As President of Chayet Communications Group, he maintains an active legal and consulting practice, specializing in the building of “deep coalitions” to deal with difficult issues of public policy. Neil is also a member of the faculty of the , serving in the Department of Psychiatry at McLean Hospital. A graduate of Tufts University, he is a member of the faculty of the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts, and a member of the Board of Tufts’ Tisch college of Citizenship and Public Service. Neil is a member of the Board of Directors of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at M.I.T. He also serves as a member of the MassPort Security Advisory Council, the Board of MassINC, the Board of Overseers of the U.S.S. Constitution Museum, the Boards of Timber Owners of New England and Wildlife Conservation Trust, and the Visiting Committee to the Phillips Library of the Peabody Essex Museum.

Morgan Chu ’76 Morgan Chu is a partner of Irell & Manella, where he was co-managing partner from 1997 to 2003, and where he has been a member of its Executive Committee since 1985. He is presently chair of the Litigation Group. Chu joined Irell & Manella as an associate in 1977 and became a partner in 1982. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Charles M. Merrill, J.D. ’31 of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Since 1993, Mr. Chu has been a member of the Board of Directors of Public Counsel, serving on the Executive Committee since 1995. The organization is the nation’s largest pro bono public-interest law firm. Chu previously served on the Board of Governors of the University of California, Los Angeles Foundation, has been an adjunct professor at UCLA School of Law, and has served as a judge pro tem. Chu received his B.A. in 1971, his M.A. in 1972, and his Ph.D. in 1973, all from the University of California, Los Angeles. He went on to earn his M.S.L. in 1974 from , and his J.D. in 1976, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He is a member of the HLS Dean’s Advisory Board, co-chair of the HLS Campaign Committee, and a member of the Leadership Council of the University of Southern California.

Robert C. Clark ’72 Robert C. Clark, currently the Austin Wakeman Scott Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, was the Dean and Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School from 1989 through July 2003. He now serves as the Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. An authority on corporate law and corporate governance, he has written numerous law review articles and book chapters, as well as a one-volume treatise, Corporate Law, which was hailed as “the paradigm for future student texts.” For 28 years, until July 2016, he served as a trustee of TIAA, the giant pension fund serving the higher education community; for much of that time he chaired the TIAA nominating and governance committee. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of Time Warner Inc. and Omnicom Group, Inc. and on the Editorial Board of Directors of Foundation Press. He is also a trustee of Hodson Trust, which funds educational programs at four Maryland educational Institutions. Prior to his 14-year tenure as Dean of Harvard Law School, Professor Clark consulted for law firms and government agencies, and he testified before various Congressional committees and subcommittees on regulation of financial institutions. From 1972 to 1974, Professor Clark was an associate with the Boston law firm of Ropes and Gray, where his practice involved commercial and corporate law. After his law firm experience, Professor Clark spent four years on the faculty of Yale Law School, where he became a tenured professor. In 1979, he returned to Harvard Law School as a professor of law. A graduate of Maryknoll College, Professor Clark received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Columbia University and earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1972.

3 Glenn Cohen ’03 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 and the Journal of the American Medical Association, bioethics (including the American Journal of Bioethics and 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. Professor Cohen is the editor of The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues (Oxford University Press, 2013), Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future, co-edited with Holly Lynch (MIT Press, 2014), Identified Versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, co-edited with Norman Daniels and Nir Eyal (Oxford University Press, 2015), FDA in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies, co-edited with Holly Lynch (Columbia University Press, 2015), The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Care Law, co-edited with William B. Sage and Allison K. Hoffman, (Oxford University Press, 2015–2016) 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 U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and as a lawyer for U.S. 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 U.S. Supreme Court. In his spare time, he still litigates, having authored an amicus brief in the U.S. 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 U.S. 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.

Ryan Cohen ’17 Ryan Cohen is a fourth year JD-MPP candidate at and Harvard Law School, where she serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Law & Policy Review. She has worked in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors, including at the White House Domestic Policy Council, Department of Justice-Civil Rights Division, Mayor of Los Angeles’s Office, and Sidley Austin, LLP. Ryan is originally from Los Angeles and is a proud Cal Bear.

4 Daniel R. Coquillette ’71 Daniel R. Coquillette has been the J. Donald Monan, S.J. University Professor at Boston College Law School since 1996, where he teaches and writes in the areas of legal history and professional responsibility. From 1985–1993, he served as Dean of the BC Law School. Earlier in his career, Professor Coquillette was a law clerk for Justice Robert Braucher of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the Supreme Court of the United States. He taught legal ethics on the faculty of the Boston University Law School, taught as a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School and Harvard Law School, and became a partner for six years at the Boston law firm of Palmer & Dodge, where he specialized in complex litigation. Among his many activities, Professor Coquillette was an Advisor to the ’s Restatement on Law Governing the Legal Profession, a member of the Harvard University Overseers’ Committee to Visit Harvard Law School, and is Reporter to the Committee on Rules of Practice and Procedure, Judicial Conference of the United States. For five years, he was Chairman of the Massachusetts Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics and Chairman of the Task Force on Unauthorized Practice of Law. He also served on the American Bar Association Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility, the Board of the American Society of Legal History, the Massachusetts Task Force on Model Rules of Professional Conduct and the Massachusetts Task Force on Professionalism. He was also a member of the Special Committee on Model Rules of Attorney Conduct of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. He is the author of On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, the First Century (with Bruce Kimball), Lawyers and Fundamental Moral Responsibility, The Anglo-American Legal Heritage, Francis Bacon, and The Civilian Jurists of Doctor’s Commons and the editor of Law in Colonial Massachusetts and Moore’s Federal Practice.

Robert E. Denham ’71 Mr. Denham is a partner in the law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, having rejoined the firm as a partner in 1998 to advise clients on strategic and financial issues, after serving as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Salomon Inc. He joined Salomon in late August 1991 as General Counsel of Salomon and its subsidiary, Salomon Brothers, and became Chairman and CEO of Salomon in June 1992. Prior to joining Salomon, Mr. Denham was managing partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. Mr. Denham presently serves on the boards of Chevron Corporation, Fomento Economico Mexicano, S.A. de CV (FEMSA), The New York Times, James Irvine Foundation, MDRC, Good Samaritan Hospital of Los Angeles and previously served on the boards of the MacArthur Foundation (Chair) and Russell Sage Foundation (Chair).

John G. Finley ’81 John G. Finley is Chief Legal Officer of Blackstone and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Before joining Blackstone in 2010, Mr. Finley had been a partner with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett for 22 years where he was most recently a member of that law firm’s Executive Committee and Head of Global Mergers & Acquisitions. Mr. Finley is a member of the Advisory Board of the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance, the National Advisory Board of the Netter Center for Community Partnerships of the University of Pennsylvania and the Board of Advisors of the University of Pennsylvania Institute of Law and Economics. He is also a guest lecturer at Harvard Law School and Penn Law School. He has served on the Committee of Securities Regulation of the New York State Bar Association, the Board of Advisors of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University and as a Trustee of the Jewish Board of Family and Children Services. He has also served as Chairman of the Annual International Mergers & Acquisitions Conference of the International Bar Association. Mr. Finley has a B.S. in Economics, summa cum laude, from The Wharton School, a B.A. summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. cum laude from the Harvard Law School.

5 Ron E. Foy ’76 Ron E. Foy has more than 30 years of experience as an investment banker, transaction and securities attorney, strategy consultant and successful start-up entrepreneur. Ron is currently managing director of investment banking in the San Francisco office of Cambria Capital, LLC, a multi-office investment banking, merchant banking and wealth management firm, where he provides a broad spectrum of capital raising and M&A advisory services to lower middle market companies as well as emerging growth companies on a selective basis. Prior to Cambria, Ron served as President of MCCG Strategy & Analytics (MCCGSA), a strategy consulting firm that focused on the medical technology and biotechnology industries. Before that, Ron served as managing director at a Los Angeles-based investment banking boutique, where he worked with companies in selected manufacturing and service sector industries. Ron was also co-founder and served as executive vice president - operations of FPC Financial Services, Inc. (FPC), a venture capital-backed San Francisco-based firm acquired by a predecessor of Comerica Inc. (NYSE:CMA). Prior to FPC, as division counsel for Itel Corporation (now Anixter International, Inc. [NYSE:AXE]), Ron was responsible for negotiating, structuring and closing all transactions involving a $2 billion capital equipment portfolio. Earlier in his career, Ron was also an attorney with major California- and New York-based law firms. In addition to his Harvard J.D., Ron holds a B.A. degree from The Ohio State University and an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management, and has served as a guest lecturer and panelist (finance) at the UCLA Anderson School.

David R. Gergen ’67 David R. Gergen is a professor of public service and co-director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School. In addition, he is a senior political analyst for CNN. He previously served as a White House adviser to four U.S. presidents of both parties: Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton. He wrote about those experiences in Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton. He is an honors graduate of Yale and the Harvard Law School.

Wendy B. Jacobs ’81 Wendy B. Jacobs, Esq. is the Emmett Clinical Professor of Environmental Law and Director of the Harvard Law School Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic. She is also on the Faculty of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health's Center for Health and the Global Environment, and she is a member of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. Ms. Jacobs received her J.D. with honors in 1981 from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Ms. Jacobs first worked as an appellate lawyer and special litigator for the U.S. Department of Justice in its Environment Division in Washington, D.C. She then did a brief stint with a law firm in Seattle working on First Amendment and commercial litigation, followed by 18 years as a partner in the Boston law firm Foley Hoag LLP, where she worked almost exclusively on environmental matters, involving myriad environmental laws, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and a host of interesting private sector clients. Her work has covered the gamut of compliance counseling, handling of complex permit applications and their related hearings and appeals, preparation of comments on federal and state rulemakings, drafting of legislation, regulations and ordinances, administrative trials and appeals, litigation, negotiation and drafting of contracts, environmental due diligence and audits, and development of corporate risk management and environmental protection policies and manuals. She came to Harvard in 2007 to create its Environmental Law & Policy Clinic. As Clinic Director, she provides her students a variety of complex, client-driven, environmental and energy law and policy projects, with a focus on renewable energy, climate change mitigation and resiliency, sustainable aquaculture and agriculture, microgrids and district energy, hydraulic fracturing, carbon capture and sequestration, improved oversight and management of offshore drilling, protection of the Arctic, energy justice and redistribution, and citizen science. Among the Clinic’s clients are a wide variety of government entities and NGOs. In spring 2017, Ms. Jacobs will be teaching a new cross-campus course. In this Climate Solutions Living Lab, students from multiple disciplines will collaborate in designing practical solutions to help low-income, under- served populations improve their living conditions with power generated by renewable sources of fuel while also helping universities and other enterprises to reduce their own climate impacts. For two years, she taught and developed case studies for the Harvard Law School Problem Solving Workshop – an innovative class required of all first-year law students to expose them to lawyering skills. She has written white papers and model legislation focused on carbon capture and sequestration; she has written chapters on the subject for 6 inclusion in two books, one of which is Global Climate Change and U.S. Law, published by the American Bar Association in 2014 (SSRN Abstract ID: 2379600). The other, Legal Pathways to Deep Decarbonization of the U.S., is forthcoming. Ms. Jacobs also participated in and chaired a session at the Sixth International Energy Agency Carbon Capture and Sequestration (CCS) Regulatory Network Meeting in Paris, has presented at several insurance industry seminars on risks related to hydraulic fracturing, and in October 2016, is co-hosting a conference on Climate Change Displacement: Finding Solutions to an Emerging Crisis.

Helen R. Kanovsky ’76 Helen R. Kanovsky became the General Counsel of the Mortgage Bankers Association on October 1, 2016. Before that, she spent over seven years as the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (and for a year as the Acting Deputy Secretary). She is the longest serving General Counsel of HUD. As General Counsel, she was the chief law officer of the Department and principal legal adviser to the Secretary and staff of HUD. She was also head of the Departmental Enforcement Center. Prior to coming to HUD, Ms. Kanovsky served as Chief Operating Officer and, earlier, as the General Counsel of the AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust. During 1998–99, she was Chief of Staff to Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. Previously, Ms. Kanovsky was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of GE Capital Asset Management Corporation (a subsidiary of the General Electric Company) and its predecessor company, Skyline Financial Services Corporation from 1986–1994. She also worked in private law practice as a partner with Leff & Mason and a partner and associate with Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin. During 1979–1981, she served as a Special Assistant to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Patricia Roberts Harris. She went with Secretary Harris to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare where she served as Special Assistant to the Secretary and Associate Executive Secretary to the Department which became the Department of Health and Human Services. She has served as Chair of the National Housing Conference (NHC) and is a member of the Board of the NHC’s research affiliate, the Center for Housing Policy. She also was a Trustee of the National Labor College and a member of the Board of the Special Olympics of the District of Columbia. Ms. Kanovsky holds an A.B. cum laude in Government from Cornell University where she was Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. cum laude from the Harvard Law School in 1976.

The Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy ’61 Anthony M. Kennedy became an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U.S. in February 1988 after being nominated by President Reagan. He had previously served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit since 1975. He was in private practice in California from 1961–1975. He also was a Professor of Constitutional Law at the McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific from 1965 to 1988. He received his B.A. from Stanford University and the London School of Economics, and his LL.B. from Harvard Law School. He has served in numerous positions during his career, including as a member of the California Army National Guard in 1961, the board of the Federal Judicial Center from 1987–1988, and two committees of the Judicial Conference of the United States: the Advisory Panel on Financial Disclosure Reports and Judicial Activities, subsequently renamed the Advisory Committee on Codes of Conduct, from 1979–1987, and the Committee on Pacific Territories from 1979–1990, which he chaired from 1982–1990.

Randall Kennedy Randall Kennedy is Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law, and the regulation of race relations. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina. For his education he attended St. Albans School, Princeton University, Oxford University, and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States. Awarded the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Race, Crime, and the Law, Mr. Kennedy writes for a wide range of scholarly and general interest publications. His recent books include: For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (2013), The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (2011), Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (2008), Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption (2003), Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (2002), 7 The Persistence of the Color Line (2011) and For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (2013). A member of the American Law Institute, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, Mr. Kennedy is also a Charter Trustee of Princeton University.

Jack S. Levin ’61 Jack Levin is a senior partner in the international law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP (Chicago office). He is also lecturer at both Harvard Law School and the University of Chicago Law School, teaching a course on Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions, which has allowed him to indoctrinate thousands of young minds in the devious art of combining complex business, legal, tax, and accounting concepts. Earlier in his career, Jack served as Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States under Archibald Cox and Thurgood Marshall. In 2013 American Lawyer magazine named Jack one of the 50 American lawyers who “over the last 50 years … have had an outsize impact on the [legal] profession,” by helping (in American Lawyer’s words) to “lay the legal groundwork for the then nascent private equity industry.” In 2014 Best Lawyers in America recognized Jack as one of the few attorneys who had been honored continuously in every edition since it began in 1983. Jack received AJC’s Learned Hand Award (presented by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg), Chambers’ Global Attorney Lifetime Achievement Award (presented by then U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair’s spouse), and Illinois Venture Capital Association’s lifetime achievement award (presented by then Senator, now President, Barack Obama). He is past president of AJC Chicago and serves on the Illinois Holocaust Museum’s Board of Trustees, and is a Certified Public Accountant. Jack has authored or co-authored six books dealing with mergers, acquisitions, and private equity transactions, (which he updates and republishes at least annually.) He graduated summa cum laude, first in his class of 500 from Harvard Law School in 1961, while serving as an editor with the Harvard Law Review. Jack also graduated summa cum laude from the Northwestern University School of Business.

Martha Minow Martha Minow is the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School where she has taught since 1981. An expert in human rights with a focus on members of racial and religious minorities and women, children, and persons with disabilities, her scholarship also has addressed private military contractors, management of mass torts, transitional justice, and law, culture, and social change. She has published over 150 articles and her books include, In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s Educational Landmark (2010); Partners, Not Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good (2002); and Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (1998); she is co-editor of law school casebooks on civil procedure, and on gender and the law. She has delivered more than 75 named or endowed lectures and keynote addresses. Following nomination by President Obama and confirmation by the Senate, she serves as vice-chair of the board of the Legal Services Corporation. She previously chaired the Board of Directors for the Revson Foundation (New York) and now serves on the board of the MacArthur Foundation, and other non-profit organizations. She is a former member of the board of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, the Covenant Foundation, the Iranian Human Rights Documentation Center, and former chair of the Scholar’s Board of Facing History and Ourselves. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Michigan and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Minow received her law degree at Yale Law School before serving as a law clerk to Judge David Bazelon and Justice Thurgood Marshall. A member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, her awards include the Sacks-Freund Teaching Award; the Holocaust Center Award; the Radcliffe Graduate Society Medal; Trinity College History Society Gold Medal; and eight honorary doctorates.

8 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. For the Fall 2016 term, she is teaching International Humanitarian Law/Laws of War, and in the Spring 2017 term she will teach 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 scholarship and research focus on intersections between the fields of international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and Islamic 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 Directors of the Center for Civilians in Conflict, on the Advisory Board of Geneva Call, and on the Interim Advisory Group of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Integrated Regional Information Networks. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley and her J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Daniel Nagin Daniel Nagin is Clinical Professor of Law, Vice Dean for Experiential and Clinical Education, and Faculty Director of the WilmerHale Legal Services Center, a community-based public interest law firm home to five Law School civil practice clinics. He is also Faculty Director of the Legal Service Center’s Veterans Legal Clinic, which he founded in 2012. His teaching and research interests focus on clinical education, social welfare law and policy, veterans law, and delivery of legal services. He is a frequent CLE and conference presenter on veterans law topics. His recent scholarship includes Goals v. Deadlines: Notes on the VA Disability Claims Backlog, 10 UMass Law Review 50 (2015) (symposium issue) and The Credibility Trap: Notes on a VA Evidentiary Standard, 45 Memphis Law Review. 887 (2015) (symposium issue). The Veterans Legal Clinic has won a number of important victories on behalf of disabled veterans, including Ausmer v. Shinseki, 26 Vet. App. 392 (2013) and Froio v. McDonald, 27 Vet. App. 352 (2015). Nagin’s current public service activities include serving as Co-Chair of the Active Duty Military, Family Members & Veterans Committee of the Boston Bar Association; as a member of the Massachusetts VA Community Engagement Board; as Vice Chair of the Military and Health Law Advisory Board of the ABA Health Law Section; and on the Executive Committee of the Section on Poverty Law of the American Association of Law Schools. Previously, Nagin was on the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law, where he founded and directed a public benefits clinic and taught anti-poverty law courses. Nagin has also taught in the clinical program at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, directed a social service and legal advocacy program for homeless New Yorkers living with HIV/AIDS, and worked as a staff attorney in the Queens office of Legal Services NYC. Among his recognitions, Nagin has received the John G. Brooks Legal Services Award from the Boston Bar Association, the Goldberg v. Kelly Lives Award from the Virginia Statewide Legal Aid Conference, and the Access to Equal Justice Award from the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. Nagin holds a B.A. in History and Government, Phi Beta Kappa and with distinction in all subjects, from Cornell University, an M.A. in Education from Stanford University, and a J.D. with honors from the University of Chicago Law School, where he received the Edwin F. Mandel Award for excellence as a clinical law student.

9 Bernard W. Nussbaum ’61 Bernard W. Nussbaum is of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz which he joined in 1966, one year after the firm was formed. He focuses on corporate and securities litigation. Mr. Nussbaum has been active in both the public and private sectors throughout his legal career. In 1993 and 1994, during the Clinton Administration, he was counsel to the President of the United States. In 1974, he was a senior member of the staff of the House Judiciary Committee, which conducted the 1974 Watergate Impeachment Inquiry. His first position in the public sector was as an assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, an office he joined after completing law school. Mr. Nussbaum graduated from Columbia College in 1958, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1961 he graduated from Harvard Law School. While at HLS, he served as notes editor of The Harvard Law Review, and, upon graduation, was awarded a Harvard University Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. In 1993, Mr. Nussbaum was awarded an honorary LL.D. from the George Washington University National Law Center. He has also served on a number of philanthropic boards and has been a lecturer at Columbia University Law School.

Crystal Nwaneri ’17 Crystal Nwaneri is a third-year law student who graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Communication and a minor in Science, Technology, and Society. Before coming to law school, Ms. Nwaneri worked as a digital communications associate in the Vice Provost Office of Undergraduate Education at Stanford. Besides being a student practitioner at the Cyberlaw Clinic last semester and an editor for the Journal of Law and Technology, Ms. Nwaneri is also a member of the Black Law Student Association and Women’s Law Association. She also served as a research assistant for the Student Privacy Initiative at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society where she is currently a Berkman Klein Fellow. In early 2016, Ms. Nwaneri was awarded a Cravath Fellowship that allowed her to do legal research on internet retransmissions of broadcast television in Singapore. She has spent the past two summers at the law firm of Fenwick & West, LLP where she will be returning in fall 2017.

The Honorable Patti B. Saris ’76 Patti B. Saris holds the position of Chief Judge of the United Stated District Court in the District of Massachusetts and Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, Washington, D.C. As Chair of the Commission, she works on criminal justice issues, including sentencing guidelines and prison overincarceration. Previously, Judge Saris sat on the Superior Court of Massachusetts and served as a US Magistrate Judge. After clerking on the Supreme Judicial Court, she began her career at Foley, Hoag & Elliot. She worked for Senator Kennedy on the Judiciary Committee, and for William Weld in the United States Attorney’s office as Chief of the Civil Division. She was President of the Harvard Board of Overseers, and served on the Visiting Committee to Harvard Law School.

John F. Savarese ’81 John F. Savarese has been a partner in the litigation department of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz for over 25 years, and is regularly recognized as one of the world’s top litigators, including being selected in International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers, Chambers USA Guide and Lawdragon’s 500 Leading Lawyers in America. He has represented numerous Fortune 500 corporations, global financial institutions and senior executives in SEC and other regulatory enforcement proceedings, as well as white-collar criminal investigations, complex securities litigations and internal investigations Mr. Savarese worked in the United States Attorneys’ Office for the Southern District of New York, where he tried numerous jury trials, received the Attorney General’s John Marshall Award for Outstanding Legal Achievement, and also served as Chief Appellate Attorney. Mr. Savarese teaches a course on white-collar criminal law and procedure at Harvard Law School, serves on the executive committee of the Bar Association, is a member of the American Law Institute and serves as adviser to the ALI’s project on principles of law, compliance, enforcement, and risk management. Mr Savarese also is chairman of the board of trustees of the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at Harvard Law School, a member of the board of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the former president of the board of trustees of the Brearley School in New York. Mr. Savarese graduated from Harvard University in 1977 and received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1981, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.

10 Joseph William Singer ’81 Professor Joseph William Singer has been teaching at Harvard Law School since 1992. He was appointed Bussey Professor of Law in 2006. He began teaching at Boston University School of Law in 1984. Singer received a B.A. from Williams College in 1976, an A.M. in political science from Harvard in 1978, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1981. He clerked for Justice Morris Pashman on the Supreme Court of New Jersey from 1981 to 1982 and was an associate at the law firm of Palmer & Dodge in Boston, focusing on municipal law, from 1982 to 1984. He teaches and writes about property law, conflict of laws, and federal Indian law. He also writes about legal theory with an emphasis on moral and political philosophy. He has published more than 70 law review articles. He is one of the executive editors of the 2012 edition of Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law (with 2015 Supplement). He has written a casebook and a treatise on property law, as well as No Freedom Without Regulation: The Hidden Lesson of the Subprime Crisis (2015), Entitlement: The Paradoxes of Property (2000), and The Edges of the Field: Lessons on the Obligations of Ownership (2000).

The Honorable David H. Souter ’66 David H. Souter served as an Associate Justice of Supreme Court of the U.S. from 1990–2009. His appointment to the Court was preceded by, among others, service as Attorney General of NH, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of NH, and (briefly) to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Carol S. Steiker ’86 Carol Steiker is the Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and Faculty Co-Director of Harvard’s Criminal Justice Policy Program. She specializes in the broad field of criminal justice, where her work ranges from substantive criminal law to criminal procedure to institutional design, with a special focus on issues related to capital punishment. Recent publications address topics such as the relationship of criminal justice scholarship to law reform, the role of mercy in the institutions of criminal justice, and the likelihood of nationwide abolition of capital punishment. Her most recent book, Courting Death: The Supreme Court and Capital Punishment, co-authored with her brother Jordan Steiker of the University of Texas School of Law, will be published by Harvard University Press in November, 2016. Professor Steiker is a graduate of Harvard Law School, where she served as president of the Harvard Law Review, the second woman to hold that position in its then 99-year history. After clerking for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court, she worked as a staff attorney for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia, where she represented indigent defendants at all stages of the criminal process. In addition to her scholarly work, Professor Steiker has worked on pro bono litigation projects on behalf of indigent criminal defendants, including death penalty cases in the U.S. Supreme Court. She also has served as a consultant and expert witness on issues of criminal justice for non-profit organizations and has testified before Congress and state legislatures.

Jordan Steiker ’88 Jordan Steiker is the Judge Robert M. Parker Chair in Law and Director of the Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas School of Law. He served as a law clerk for Honorable Louis Pollak, U.S. District Court (Eastern District of Pennsylvania) and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught constitutional law, criminal law, and death penalty law at the University of Texas since 1990. His work focuses primarily on the administration of capital punishment in the United States, and he has written extensively on constitutional law, federal habeas corpus, and the death penalty. Professor Steiker has testified before state legislative committees addressing death penalty issues in Texas, including state habeas reform, clemency procedures, sentencing options in capital cases, and the availability of the death penalty for juveniles and persons with intellectual disabilities. He co-authored the report (with Carol Steiker) that led the American Law Institute to withdraw the death penalty provision from the Model Penal Code. Professor Steiker has also litigated extensively on behalf of indigent death-sentenced inmates in state and federal court, including in the U.S. Supreme Court.

11 Kristen A. Stilt Kristen A. Stilt is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Animal Law & Policy Program and Director of the Islamic Legal Studies Program: Law and Social Change. She also is an Affiliate Professor in the Department of History at Harvard University. Stilt’s research focuses on Islamic law and society in both historical and contemporary contexts. She was named a Carnegie Scholar for her work on constitutional Islam, and in 2013 was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. She has also received awards from Fulbright and Fulbright- Hays. Stilt received her J.D. from The University of Texas School of Law and a Ph.D. in History and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University. Prior to coming to HLS, Stilt was Harry R. Horrow Professor in International Law at Northwestern Law School and Professor of History at Northwestern University. Her publications include Islamic Law in Action (Oxford, 2011) and Contextualizing Constitutional Islam: The Malaysian Experience, in the International Journal of Constitutional Law (2014).

Kathleen M. Sullivan ’81 Kathleen M. Sullivan is partner and chair of the national appellate practice at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, the first woman name partner at any American Lawyer 100 law firm. Now based in Quinn Emanuel’s New York office, Ms. Sullivan argues a wide range of cases in the US Supreme Court and the federal and state appellate courts. She is well-known as one of the nation’s top appellate litigators, and has been named by the National Law Journal one of The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America. Before joining the firm, Ms. Sullivan had a prominent academic career in which she taught a generation of Harvard and Stanford students constitutional law. A member of the Harvard Law School faculty from 1984 to 1993, she became Professor of Law in 1989 and won the inaugural Sacks-Freund award for teaching excellence in 1992. After moving to Stanford Law School in 1993, she served as the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and then, from 1999 to 2004, as the eleventh Dean of Stanford Law School, the first woman dean of any school at Stanford. As Dean, she made fifteen faculty appointments, established a clinical faculty, led the renovation of the classrooms and library, started an international LL.M. program, created academic centers on law and technology and corporate governance, and raised over $100 million for the school. Ms. Sullivan holds a B.A. from Cornell University, where she was a Telluride Scholar and a College Scholar, an M.A. from Oxford University, which she attended as a Marshall Scholar, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the winning team in the Ames Moot Court competition and was named Best Oralist in the final round. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. She has returned to Harvard Law School often, including as a Holmes Lecturer, a Tanner Lecturer and a member of the HLS Visiting Committee.

Laurence H. Tribe ’66 Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard, has taught at its Law School since 1968 and was voted the best professor by the graduating class of 2000. The title “University Professor” is Harvard’s highest academic honor, awarded to just a handful of professors at any given time and to just 68 professors in all of Harvard University’s history. Born in China to Russian Jewish parents, Tribe entered Harvard in 1958 at 16; graduated summa cum laude in Mathematics (1962) and magna cum laude in Law (1966); clerked for the California and U.S. Supreme Courts (1966–68); received tenure at 30; was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at 38 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2010; helped write the constitutions of South Africa, the Czech Republic, and the Marshall Islands; has received eleven honorary degrees, most recently a degree honoris causa from the Government of Mexico in March 2011 that was never before awarded to an American and an honorary D. Litt. from Columbia University; has prevailed in three-fifths of the many appellate cases he has argued (including 35 in the U.S. Supreme Court); was appointed by President Obama and Attorney General Holder to serve as the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice; and has written 115 books and articles, including his treatise, American Constitutional Law, cited more than any other legal text since 1950. Professor Tribe’s most recent book is Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution, published by Henry Holt (Macmillan) in 2014 and co-authored with Joshua Matz. Former Solicitor General wrote: “[N]o book, and no lawyer not on the [Supreme] Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American constitutional law,” and the Northwestern Law Review opined that no-one else “in American history has… simultaneously achieved Tribe’s preeminence… as a practitioner and… scholar of constitutional law.”

12 Edith Brown Weiss ’66 Edith Brown Weiss is Francis Cabell Brown Professor of International Law at Georgetown University Law Center. She is a Judge on the Administrative Tribunals of the International Monetary Fund and the Inter- American Development Bank, and a member of the United Nations Environment Programme’s International Advisory Council for Environmental Justice. From 2003 – 2007, she served as Chairperson of the World Bank Inspection Panel, an appointment at the level of World Bank Vice President. Previously, she was President of the American Society of International Law, Associate General Counsel for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where she established the Division of International Law, and U.S. Special Legal Advisor to the North American Commission on the Environment. She has received many prizes for her scholarship and legal achievements and is an editorial board member of many international journals. She will be delivering the General Course on Public International Law at The Hague Academy of International Law in 2017. She has been a director, trustee, or advisor to national and international organizations. She received an A.B. from Stanford University, J.D from Harvard Law School, Ph.D. in political science from University of California Berkeley, Doctorate honoris causa from Heidelberg University, Germany, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Stephen A. Weiswasser ’66 Steve Weiswasser ’66 has been with Washington DC law firm Covington & Burling since 1998. There, he provides legal and strategic assistance to companies in the rapidly changing media and telecommunications industries. During his tenure at Covington, from 1999 to 2001, Steve also served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Gemstar-TV Guide. Prior to joining Covington, Steve was President and Chief Executive Officer of Americast, a joint venture of SBC Communications, Ameritech, BellSouth, GTE, Southern New England Telephone and The Walt Disney Company (1995–1998). From 1986 to 1995 Steve served as Senior Vice President of Capital Cities/ABC, as well at various times as President of the Capital Cities/ABC Multimedia Group, Executive Vice President of ABC News, Executive Vice President of the ABC Television Network Group, and General Counsel. Steve joined Capital Cities/ABC from the Washington, D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where he practiced from 1967 to 1986. He had previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable David L. Bazelon, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Steve has also served on the boards of, among others, the Greater Washington Educational Television Association (WETA), the Center for Communications, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Arena Stage, National Cathedral School, the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, Collegiate Directions, Inc., and The Washington Ballet. He is a past President of the International Radio and Television Society Foundation.

Betty Whelchel ’81 Betty A. Whelchel is Head of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs for BNP Paribas CIB United States. Before joining BNP Paribas in September 2005, Betty worked with Deutsche Bank AG from 1990 to 2004, first as Deputy General Counsel for the U.S. and then as global General Counsel for Deutsche Asset Management. From 1984 to 1990, Betty was an attorney with Shearman & Sterling, where she spent two years in Tokyo, and was admitted to the Japanese bar as a “gaikokuho-jimu-bengoshi.” Betty began her career at the U.S. Department of Treasury as an Attorney-Advisor in the Treasury Honors Program in 1981 to 1984. At the U.S. Treasury, among other things, she served as a staff attorney to the Depository Institutions Deregulation Committee, and worked on various efforts to rationalize regulation of U.S. and international financial markets. Betty is a 1981 graduate of Harvard Law School. She is on the Board of Trustees and a member of the Executive Committee for the Institute of International Bankers. Betty was a recipient of the 2015 Legal 500 Individual of the Year in Financial Services, the 2015 Brooklyn Volunteer Lawyers Project Tradition of Excellence Award, the 2013 Burton “Legend in the Law” Award and the 2013 Bronx Defenders Corporate Partner Award.

13 Andrea L. Zopp ’81 Andrea Zopp currently serves as Deputy Mayor, Chief Neighborhood Development Officer for the City of Chicago. Ms. Zopp has dedicated her career to being a force of change. She has championed job creation, access to education, corporate responsibility and promoting economic development initiatives in underserved communities. She served in the United States Attorney’s Office and was the first woman and African American to serve as the First Assistant in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office. In these roles, she has fought to keep neighborhoods safe by taking on illegal guns, violent crime and gangs, and worked to protect victims of domestic violence and sexual abuse. Andrea is a successful businesswoman and has held executive leadership positions at Fortune 500 companies, including Sara Lee, Sears Holdings and Exelon. As President and CEO of the Chicago Urban League, she led the nationally-recognized organization’s focus on expanding economic opportunity in underserved communities, helping youth and young adults achieve academic and career success, and advocacy for social justice. Andrea has held multiple civic and business appointments. She was appointed to the Chicago Board of Education by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and to the Cook County Health and Hospital System Board by Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. Andrea also currently serves on the board of the Urban Partnership Bank. She is a graduate of and Law School.

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