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Root-Tilden-Kern Scholarship Program Professor Margaret Satterthwaite ’99 School of Law New York University School of Law Faculty Director Office of Development and Alumni Relations Public Interest Law Center 110 West 3rd Street Deborah A. Ellis ’82 245 Sullivan Street, Room 430 New York, NY 10012 Director and Assistant Dean for New York, NY 10012-1301 Telephone: 212.998.6400 Public Service Telephone: 212.998.6207 Kate Polson Fax: 212.995.4529 Jorge Luis Paniagua Valle Associate Director for Development Operations E-mail: [email protected] Program Administrator and Editor, Root-Tilden-Kern Newsletter Kat Daly Senior Development Officer

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1. live as part of an online conversation to encourage law students and young attorneys attorneys and young law students encourage to as part of an online conversation live to pursue a career in public interest law. law. in public interest a career pursue to professional lives to closing the justice gap in America.” The ceremony was streamed streamed was The ceremony gap in America.” the justice closing to lives professional received the NALP (The Association for Legal Career Professionals) Award of Award Professionals) Legal Career for the NALP (The Association received continued on page 2 continued Deb she First, in public interest. her work for this year twice honored Ellis was Class of 2011 Employment Destinations of 2011 Employment Class RTK Class of 2014 RTK Class 2012 and 2013 Awards and Recognitions 2012 and 2013 Awards Orientation for the Class of 2014 the Class for Orientation Series 2010-11 in Public Interest Leaders emberships Journal Memberships 2012 and 2013 Summer Jobs Deb Ellis ’82 with Attorney General Eric Holder at the General Deb Ellis ’82 with Attorney Champions of Change event this year for their contributions to NYU School of Law and to their contributions for this year law nationally. of public interest the field All three administrators of the RTK Program were honored honored were Program of the RTK administrators All three RTK Leadership onored Honored ern -K

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to having Golove’s expertise and expertise having Golove’s to leadership. Foundation Family is the Hiller Golove of Law at the Law School. Professor degree his undergraduate He received of the University from and law degree and an LL.M. at Berkeley California Law School. His specialty is Yale from an affairs, law of foreign constitutional on which he has published articles area journals such as the in major academic and the Harvard Law Law Review Stanford Review in the Michigan Law Review article length The and the Nation: “Treaty-Making entitled the Nationalist of Foundations Historical Power.” the Treaty of Conception Professor David Golove will be the David Golove Professor the Root- for Director Faculty Interim 2012 while for Program Tilden-Kern is on leave. Satterthwaite Professor olove Is Interim Faculty Director Director Faculty Is Interim Golove Letter from the Directors from Letter Roots Speak at J.D. Convocation New Scholarship Created Scholarship New onored Honored RTK Leadership Awards at Graduation Awards

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this n I issue RT RT Letter from the directors Meg Satterthwaite received the Albert Podell Distinguished Teaching Award, established in 2007 by Albert Podell ’76, Dear Root-Tilden-Kern Alumni, in recognition of the outstanding achievements of faculty in the classroom. Greetings from the RTK program and the Law School! This is a year of transitions in the RTK program: Letizia La Rosa received the inaugural Program Administrator Letizia La Rosa left in August Albert Podell Outstanding Administrator and Faculty Director Meg Satterthwaite will be on Award, established in 2011 by Albert leave for 2012. Podell ’76, in recognition of inspirational and innovative service and outstanding In August Letizia La Rosa became Program Coordinator contributions to the law school for the International Education Program and Education community. ■ and Social Policy Program in the graduate Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the Professions at NYU Steinhardt. Letizia’s superb contributions during her more than four and a half years at the New Scholarship Law School were recognized by her receipt of the inaugural Podell Distinguished Administrator Award Created this past May. One of Letizia’s major roles was working We are pleased to announce the creation with the 60 students in the RTK program, where she of a new scholarship thanks to the gener- coordinated numerous logistics, supported students ous support of the Filomen M. D’Agostino in their academic and professional pursuits, and made Foundation. The Filomen M. D’Agostino mentoring matches among students that were widely considered “inspired.” In their Scholarship in Civil Rights, Civil Liber- nomination letter for the Podell Award, the Root students lauded Letizia for helping ties, and/or Criminal Justice will pay the students thrive and for being an “amazing ambassador” for the Law School. full tuition each year for three students of outstanding academic merit and leader- Our excellent new Program administrator is Jorge Luis Paniagua Valle, a graduate ship potential who demonstrate a strong of Loyola University Chicago, where he studied philosophy and ancient Greek. Prior commitment to work on civil rights, civil to joining PILC in early August, Jorge Luis was the outreach coordinator and a liberties or criminal justice issues for at conflict resolution associate for the Loyola Law School Center for Conflict Resolution, least three years after graduation from which provides alternative dispute resolution services to indigent communities in NYU School of Law. Los Angeles County. When not working, Jorge Luis enjoys doing archery, writing The new D’Agostino Scholars in Civil non-fiction, and exploring his new home, . Rights, Civil Liberties, and/or Criminal Justice will be selected from the incoming Faculty Director Meg Satterthwaite will be on sabbatical in 2012. She will be working class of 2015 next spring. on a book on human rights methodologies. Professor David Golove (see profile on The scholarships are named after page 1) will serve as Interim Faculty Director from January 1, 2012, through the end Filomen M. D’Agostino ’20, a trailblazer of the calendar year. in the legal profession, and a rare woman in that time. Her generosity Welcome to both Jorge Luis and David! helped transform NYU School of Law. She and her husband, Max E. Greenberg, As usual, the newsletter is filled with stories of the inspiring work of our students donated D’Agostino Hall, one of the and alumni. As you contemplate year-end gifts, we hope that you consider a donation most important buildings on the NYU to the program. With tuition rising each year, our ability to continue to provide full- Law campus, as well as the beautiful tuition scholarships to 20 students is dependent on giving from our loyal alumni. Greenberg Lounge in Vanderbilt Hall, Most importantly, we want each and every donor to know that a gift of any amount and also endowed the Max E. Greenberg is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your generosity and a special note Professorship in Contract Law and the of appreciation to those of you who gave last year and are listed in the Honor Roll of D’Agostino-Greenberg Faculty Research Donors at the end of this Newsletter. Fund. The D’Agostino Foundation also supports three additional full-tuition Best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year. scholarships as part of the Root-Tilden- Kern Program, the Filomen M. D’Agostino Scholarship for Women or Children, Deb Ellis ’82 and Meg Satterthwaite ’99 created in 2004. ■ 3 RTK News Fall 2011

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Now I tell you that story because that story you I tell Now To those who say there is no room is no room there those who say To wasn’t expected to break any new break to expected wasn’t for boldness and creativity in legal and creativity boldness for have a course on Hennessy at the police at the police on Hennessy a course have how the officer knew Mr. Jones was Mr. knew the officer how pipes up, “Well, The prosecutor beverage.” boldness that NYU has nurtured in us. that NYU has nurtured boldness We have no information here to determine to here no information have We this ticket for lack of probable cause. lack of probable for this ticket used his training obviously the officer that the prevailing narrative of law school narrative that the prevailing up and Mark looks at it: “On Sunday night, at it: “On Sunday up and Mark looks the prevailing narrative—that’s the narrative—that’s the prevailing the Hennessy Defense, and with it, he and with it, Defense, the Hennessy Hennessy.” Mark says, “Training? Do they “Training? Mark says, Hennessy.” Hennessy Defense. To those who say To Defense. Hennessy Mr. Smith was drinking Hennessy on such- drinking Hennessy Smith was Mr. Mark went into a situation where he a situation where into Mark went Dismissed.” School of Law graduating class of 2011. class School of Law graduating drinking Hennessy or any other alcoholic or any other alcoholic drinking Hennessy ground or develop new doctrine, but in new or develop ground academy? Did he go to Hennessy College?” Hennessy Did he go to academy? and expertise to determine it was determine to and expertise argument, I give you Mark and the you I give argument, and-such corner, in plain sight.” Mark says, Mark says, in plain sight.” and-such corner, ago.” The judge says, “That’s a good case! “That’s The judge says, ago.” assumptions the police were making. were the police assumptions service of his client, he did. He invented of his client, he did. He invented service cannot be changed, I give you the NYU you be changed, I give cannot five minutes Jones five v. in People established changed the narrative of this open changed the narrative violation. He made it about the container A few minutes later, another ticket comes comes another ticket later, minutes A few And I want to cite the Hennessy Defense, Defense, the Hennessy cite to And I want The judge agrees and dismisses the case. and dismisses The judge agrees The ability and audacity to challenge The ability and audacity to “Your honor, I want to challenge this ticket. this ticket. challenge to I want honor, “Your

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Elizabeth Ashamu NYU School of Law Human Rights Watch Fellowship, New York, NY

Matt Baca Chief Judge Rebecca Smith, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk, VA

Betty Baez Melo Brooklyn Defender Services, Brooklyn, NY

Noam Biale Equal Justice Initiative Fellowship, Montgomery, AL Judge Allyne R. Ross, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, Brooklyn, NY (2012 term)

Daniel Bowes Equal Justice Works Fellowship, North Carolina Justice Center, Raleigh, NC

Danielle Escontrias El Paso Public Defender, El Paso, TX Yihong (Julie) Mao Additional Fellowships Equal Justice Works Fellowship, Awarded in 2011 to Alumni Anurag Gupta New Orleans Workers’ Center for NYU School of Law, National Center on Racial Justice, New Orleans, LA Tess Bridgeman ’10 Philanthropy and the Law, Rockefeller U.S. Department of State, Office of Brothers Fund Fellowship in Nonprofit Law, Linnea Nelson Legal Adviser, New Attorney Program, Vera Institute for Justice, New York, NY ACLU of Northern California Fellowship, Washington, DC San Francisco, CA Ellie Happel Nick Durham ’08 Arthur Helton Global Human Rights Meagan Powers U.S. Department of Justice Honors Fellowship, Bureau des Avocats Bronx County District Attorney’s Office, Program, Civil Rights Division, Internationaux (International Lawyers Bronx, NY Washington, DC Bureau), Port-au-Prince, Haiti Erin Scharff Mitra Ebadolahi ’08 Stephen Kang Judge William Fletcher, U.S. Court American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Judge Margaret M. Morrow, U.S. District of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Nadine Strossen Fellowship, National Court, Central District of California, Los San Francisco, CA Security Project, New York, NY Angeles, CA; Judge Kermit V. Lipez, U.S. Emerson Sykes Beth George ’10 Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, New York City Council, New York, NY U.S. Department of Justice Honors Portland, ME (2012 term) Program, National Security Division, Elizabeth-Ann (Liz) Tierney Liz Kilstein Office of Intelligence, Washington, DC Zubrow Fellowship, Juvenile Law Center, Brooklyn Defender Services, Brooklyn, NY Philadelphia, PA Nate Wessler ’10 Marne Lenox American Civil Liberties Union, National Kosha Tucker Bronx Defenders, Bronx, NY Security Project Fellowship, New York, NY The Barton Child Law and Policy Center Ruben Loyo at School of Law, Sara Zier ’10 Judge Solomon Oliver Jr., U.S. District Robin Nash Fellowship, Atlanta, GA Soros Justice Advocacy Fellowship, Court, Northern District of Ohio, TeamChild, Tacoma, WA Mark Weiner Cleveland, OH Judge Susan Illston, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, San Francisco, CA 55 RTK News Fall 2011

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writing and garnering support for progressive legislation. progressive writing and garnering support for who is the Founder and Chief Education Officer of Movement Vision Lab, a grassroots Vision Lab, a grassroots of Movement Officer and Chief Education who is the Founder face of constant push back can ultimately make a difference. a difference. make ultimately push back can of constant face the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Representative DeGette described her DeGette Act, Representative Care and Affordable Protection the Patient in a high-profile case involving corrupt judges and juveniles who were being subject to who were judges and juveniles corrupt involving case in a high-profile that plagues our society. that plagues our society. think tank, encouraged students to confront the racial bias and economic inequality bias and economic the racial confront to students encouraged think tank, Representative DeGette is also the chief architect of legislation to expand stem cell cell stem expand to of legislation is also the chief architect DeGette Representative research, and gave students a rare window into the process of the process into window a rare students and gave research, prominent role in the health reform debate as a leading advocate for women’s health. women’s for advocate as a leading debate in the health reform role prominent delinquency hearings without lawyers, Ms. Rosado demonstrated that resilience in the that resilience demonstrated Ms. Rosado delinquency hearings without lawyers, government, grassroots activism and direct direct activism and grassroots government, and law and regulatory reform—to make sure the systems are advancing the rights of the rights advancing are the systems sure make reform—to and law and regulatory in seeking justice persistence JLC’s In recapping in jeopardy. of children and well-being and take advantage of their privileged legal education to manifest that change. Kohn, that change. Kohn, manifest to education legal of their privileged advantage and take career can take many different forms. forms. many different take can career

legal services, reminding students that a public interest a public interest that students reminding services, legal nterest Interest in Public Leaders Interest Series featured three Root-Tilden-Kern alumni Root-Tilden-Kern three Series featured Interest

this past year. The speakers discussed their work in federal in federal their work discussed The speakers year. this past Series 2010–11 Series The Public Interest Law Center’s Leaders in Public in Leaders Center’s Law The Public Interest Elizabeth also volunteered as a sexual Root-Tilden-Kern assault counselor and co-led the Criminal Justice Network, creating an on-campus program to support the organization Get Class of 2014 on the Bus and send children yearly to visit their mothers in prison for Mother’s Day. In law school, Elizabeth is interested in studying potential avenues of U.S.- China cooperation on climate and energy law and roadblocks of current partnerships. She is building on previous Sheila Baynes Wonjoo Choe experience as an intern with the U.S. Sheila graduated Wonjoo graduated Mission to NATO and her time after from Harvard in with distinction from graduation when she worked as Climate 2003 with a degree Cornell University Change Coordinator for the World in history and in 2007 with a B.A. Federation of U.N. Associations, interned literature. Her in government and for the U.S. Mission to the U.N., and spent studies focused economics. He three months in China studying Mandarin. on the meaning of the environment in interned at the Korean Public Interest Elizabeth grew up in east Tennessee. the American imagination; this interest Lawyers Group (Gong-Gam), a nonprofit After law school, she hopes to pursue a in the centrality of place to the human public interest firm in Seoul where he was career in public international law. experience informed her subsequent actively involved in advancing immigration career in wilderness education. and refugee rights. There, he analyzed Akiva Fishman Sheila’s work with youth in the the legal status of North Korean refugees Sullivan & Cromwell Scholar outdoors began in earnest in Alaska, in developed countries, and helped Having studied where she led at-risk girls on wilderness translate a book composed of letters from the intersection of expeditions. After studying for a master’s North Korean refugees to their families the environment, in teaching, she continued to work with and friends in North Korea. Wonjoo is economics, and at-risk youth as a high school teacher in currently working with his brother to society, Akiva a drug and alcohol treatment program for develop a social networking Web site graduated magna Alaska Native teens. During her summers, called dooub, in hopes of using it as a cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from she taught courses for the National channel to connect legal advocates and in 2009, and was a Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS), a scholars across the globe. faculty-selected commencement speaker. leading nonprofit that teaches leadership Wonjoo was born in Daegu, South During his college career, he worked in on expeditions in many of the world’s Korea, and grew up in Seoul and Silver the private, nonprofit, and government most remote and pristine wilderness Spring, Maryland. After law school, he sectors on issues ranging from carbon classrooms. Sheila moved to Wyoming in hopes to bring about positive change in footprint management and algae-based 2009 to work at NOLS headquarters doing the political and economic condition of biodiesel to tropical land use change and educational research and curriculum refugees in developing countries, and urban water quality. He was privileged to development. Her time spent living in ultimately benefit those who seek asylum participate one summer in a study of NYC rural communities in the American West in his home country, South Korea. street tree mortality by the Department has reinforced her desire to work toward of Parks and Recreation as part of Mayor sustainable and collaborative solutions to Elizabeth DeGori Bloomberg’s PlaNYC agenda. environmental and social challenges. Starr Foundation Scholar After graduating, Akiva moved Sheila was born and raised in Elizabeth graduated to Washington, DC, to work for the Palmyra, New York. She looks forward cum laude from Environmental Law Institute, and focused to using her legal education to advance Scripps College on editing and writing for a series of the mutually dependent issues of healthy in 2010 with a seven books analyzing the role of natural youth and healthy public lands. dual degree in resources in post-conflict peacebuilding. international He plans to study environmental, relations and French Studies. During international, and comparative law at college, Elizabeth studied abroad in Paris, NYU to understand how community- interning at Confrontations Europe, where driven conservation initiatives operate she studied cooperation between U.S. and within national legal frameworks. E.U. climate policies leading up to the After then pursuing a master’s degree UNFCCC Conference in 2010. in environmental management, he 7 RTK News Fall 2011

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Scholar where she majored in she majored where activists, Amelia activists, economics and played economics on the Amherst follow in her parents’ in her parents’ follow by working footsteps seized the chance to chance seized the social and politicalsocial and Rachel graduated Rachel Kappa from Phi Beta Amherst College, Amherst The daughter of twoThe daughter Service Following graduation, Amelia saw graduation, Following Amelia was raised in Asheville, North in Asheville, raised Amelia was After that campaign ended, Amelia ended, that campaign After Sinsheimer where she focused on electoral outreach outreach on electoral she focused where as a vehicle for empowering individuals empowering for as a vehicle the address actively to and communities them. that affect issues in government in May 2008. in May in government education, and development, and her and development, education, with in conjunction use the law, goal is to action and advocacy, community-based campaign while an undergraduate at an undergraduate while campaign with a degree years in three graduated a speechwriter at Planned Parenthood, at Planned Parenthood, a speechwriter and social change. for change on ’s presidential presidential change on Hillary Clinton’s for Amelia the campaign, full-time for in January 2009 to join a gubernatorialin January 2009 to and opening up trade opportunities for for opportunities and opening up trade enthusiast, she left Planned Parenthood Planned Parenthood she left enthusiast, state home in her adopted campaign of Virginia. the U.S. Trade of Speechwriting to agreements of negotiating trade charge National at the Democratic chief writer for everyone from grassroots activists to activists grassroots from everyone for law school education to work for political for work to law school education softball team. Since college, her work college, Since softball team. organizing, on grassroots has focused moved on to become the Director the Director become to on moved the become on to position, Amelia moved the 2008 presidential election through as through election the 2008 presidential to women voters. Ever the campaign Ever voters. women to the president of the . of the United the president Georgetown University. Despite working Despite University. Georgetown Rachel Hoerger Rachel Hoerger Carolina, and looks forward to putting her to forward and looks Carolina, Committee, where she penned remarks she penned remarks where Committee, Representative, the Cabinet official in Representative, Amelia Pelly Frenkel Pelly Amelia Americans abroad. After a year in that a year After abroad. Americans

distinction and a distinction in criminal degree from Indiana from Brittany graduated graduated Brittany University in University 2011 with highest When she wasn’t engaged inWhen she wasn’t Brittany was born in Las Vegas born in Las Vegas was Brittany She is passionate about working She is passionate Akiva is from the of Upper West the is from Akiva justice, sociology, and communication communication and sociology, justice, with governments seeking to develop develop seeking to with governments and raised in Indianapolis. and raised an AmeriCorp VISTA at Bosma an AmeriCorp VISTA career pursuing her interests in race in race her interests pursuing career or reform environmental laws and laws environmental or reform academic pursuits, Brittany spent Brittany pursuits, academic at Shalom volunteer a hospitality program in the children’s as a storyteller domestic House—a local Way at Middle financial sponsorship and procuring of legal research under Law Professors under Law Professors research of legal for the blind and visually impaired. the blind and visually for organization, Ovar’coming Together. Together. Ovar’coming organization, education law, and civil rights law. law. and civil rights law, education for Indiana’s nonprofit ovarian cancer cancer ovarian nonprofit Indiana’s for relations, advocacy, and service. In service. and advocacy, relations, regulations. plans to work in an advisory capacity in an advisory work to plans she has been given to become a civil become to she has been given attorney. rights her time serving her community as her time serving her community her summer planning special events violence shelter. In 2009, she spent shelter. violence to New York. New to toward racial equality in the United racial toward the topics of hate crime, race relations, relations, crime, race of hate the topics Brittany Francis Francis Brittany Community Center for the homeless and the homeless for Community Center Kappa Honor Society. As a Cox Research Research As a Cox Kappa Honor Society. and is elated to be returning returning be to and is elated Manhattan States and aspires to use the blessings use the blessings to and aspires States Enterprises, a nonprofit organization organization a nonprofit Enterprises, Dr. Jeannine Bell and Kevin Brown on Brown Jeannine Bell and Kevin Dr. Scholar, Brittany conducted four years years four conducted Brittany Scholar, 2010, she was inducted into Phi Beta into inducted 2010, she was & culture, and spent her undergraduate and spent her undergraduate & culture, The following summer she served as summer she served The following After graduation, Rachel worked Sara Maeder at C.E.O. Women (Creating Economic as a union organizer for the American WilmerHale Scholar Opportunities for Women), an Oakland- Federation of State, County & Municipal Sara graduated from based microenterprise organization. Employees, organizing in-home child-care C.E.O. Women helps immigrant and providers across the state of Iowa, and in 2008 with honors refugee women start businesses through then served for two wonderful years as a in classics. She training in entrepreneurship and English Peace Corps volunteer in northern Peru. was particularly language. As an AmeriCorpsVISTA In 2010, Rachel coordinated a statewide interested as a volunteer and then a project manager, community-education program to increase classics major in the power of language Annie led the development of all of C.E.O. Census participation in farm worker and and myth, and wrote her senior thesis on Women’s business support programs, immigrant communities throughout the use of ancient myth in film to address including their microequity grant rural California. modern social issues. During her time initiatives. Rachel is a proud native of Oakland, at Wesleyan, she also developed a strong Fueled by her clients’ stories of California. interest in social justice and constitutional success and day-to-day struggles, law, which she explored further through Annie returned to graduate school Malika Lubell-Doughtie an internship at the Women’s Law Project to better understand the social and Filomen M. D’Agostino Scholar in Philadelphia. economic phenomenon she encountered After graduating from After graduating, Sara worked as a on the grassroots level. She is Pomona College in legal assistant at Lambda Legal’s New currently a Reynolds Fellow in Social 2008, with a double York Headquarters. There, she assisted Entrepreneurship at the Harvard major in politics on LGBT rights cases, such as one Kennedy School. and gender and involving a voter referendum attempting Annie grew up in Boston. She is eager women’s studies, to exclude transgender people from to combine her grassroots, education Malika returned to New York hoping to protection under a Maryland employment in public policy, and legal training to apply her formal education and personal nondiscrimination law. She then went advocate for low-income and immigrant experiences to work with a social justice- on to work as a paralegal at Children’s communities in the United States. oriented organization. Rights, where she participated in the In 2009, Malika accepted two positions investigation of the Massachusetts Nicholas Melvoin with Girls Educational and Mentoring Department of Children and Families Coben Scholar Services (GEMS), an organization serving and the early stages of the subsequent A native of Los young women who have experienced litigation against the Commonweatlh. Angeles, Nick commercial sexual exploitation and Sara grew up in Narberth, graduated from domestic trafficking. At GEMS, Malika Pennsylvania. She looks forward to in worked as a residential counselor at GEMS’ exploring further in law school the ways 2008 with a degree Transitional Independent Living House and in which the law can be used as a tool in government and as a street outreach worker, traveling to for social change. She plans to pursue a English. While in college, Nick was an active “tracks” throughout New York City career in civil rights impact litigation. editor of The , a member to reach out to young women touched by of the Institute of Politics, and a volunteer commercial sexual exploitation. Annie Mathews teacher in inner-city Boston. Continuing to explore how she could Jacobson Public Service Scholar for After graduation, Nick joined Teach contribute to the protection of juvenile Women, Children & Families For America and was assigned to rights, in 2010, Malika became the Annie graduated from Markham Middle School in South Central court representative of the Center for Wesleyan University Los Angeles, where he became a Small Alternative Sentencing and Employment in 2006 with a degree Learning Community Principal, leading Services’ (CASES) Alternative to Detention in social studies. a group of 350 students to significant (ATD) project, Choices. Malika advocated Fascinated by social academic gains. While at Markham, Nick for youth with pending delinquency cases policy and eager to observed that the devastating effects of to remain in the community with the fight for social justice, she researched teacher layoffs disproportionately affected support and supervision of Choices ATD. and wrote her thesis on the political poor students of color. Consequently, Malika grew up in , New impact of a coalition of community he worked with the ACLU to instigate York, and attended the Ethical Culture organizations in the impoverished a successful lawsuit against the state Fieldston School. She is looking forward outskirts of Buenos Aires. of California and the Los Angeles to providing holistic legal representation Passionate about immigrant Unified School District that redressed to youth and to using her law degree to rights, women’s rights, and economic the situation, allowing thousands of fight for juvenile justice. development, she worked for three years students to enjoy a more stable learning 9 RTK News Fall 2011 Scholar attended college college attended and at Washington raised in Johnsonraised City, New York, and York, New City, Born in Queens, New York, Jesse was Jesse York, Service Robert grew up in the San Francisco up in the San Francisco grew Robert Jesse is thrilled to be back in New to is thrilled Jesse Sinsheimer just and equitable society. equitable and just worked extensively on his Spanish in order on his Spanish in order extensively worked in the deep South, he returned to Santa to South, he returned in the deep a degree in Politics, Jesse served as served Jesse in Politics, a degree Max on U.S. Senator organizer a field for at the National Trust administration with the law firm of Maggio and paralegal him that showed cases immigration curriculum and instruction from the from instruction and curriculum classics. He continued working in the working He continued classics. math at a publicteaching began degree immigration cases. immigration literature and philosophy at St. John’s at St. John’s and philosophy literature plans to continue advocating for a more a more for advocating continue plans to public schools and upon completion of the completion upon and public schools in college high school and a community researcher for the Service Employees Employees the Service for researcher During law. immigration for his passion assistant as a legal years than three more in badly communities for difference real Jesse services. legal need of affordable English as a Second has also taught nationals in deportation proceedings. proceedings. nationals in deportation International Union and in finance and Union and in finance International then worked in Washington, DC, as a in Washington, then worked a make he could where a field this was time to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he where Argentina, Buenos Aires, time to with their clients future further assist to College and earned an M.A. in Eastern an M.A. in Eastern and earned College Cleland’s re-election campaign. He campaign. re-election Cleland’s Bay Area. With his legal education, he education, With his legal Area. Bay Lee University, where he was a Weinstein a Weinstein he was where Lee University, Fe to study Sanskrit and classical Asian classical Sanskrit and study to Fe Fe. Santa Scholar. After graduating in 2002 with graduating After Scholar. discovering before Preservation Historic a for and lived Language as a volunteer University of Mississippi. After three years years three After of Mississippi. University Law degree to defend indigent foreign indigent foreign defend to Law degree York City and plans to use his NYU City and plans to York & Kattar, Jesse assisted with many difficult assisted Jesse & Kattar, Jesse Rockoff Jesse Scholar access were fueled fueled were access in the Great Books Books in the Great and the history of and the history for immigrants’ immigrants’ for age. a young from rights and education rights math and science math and science philosophy, literature, literature, philosophy, While in school, While Program at St. John’s at St. John’s Program Robert studied Robert Arizona, her concerns her concerns Arizona, J. Freedman J. Alan C. and C. Kendal is excited to be a part of the be to is excited Kendal After graduating, Kendal worked worked Kendal graduating, After After college Robert joined the Robert college After Doris work at the City Bar Justice Center as the Center at the City Bar Justice work immigrant and other border community community and other border immigrant as system and quality higher education Manager for Program as the Collegiate Project. Assistance and the Veterans her goal of founding toward as she works in the Southwest nonprofit a multi-issue campaigned for an affordable, accessible, accessible, an affordable, for campaigned with a focus programming development awareness. and diversity on social justice policy advocacy, organizing, community and impact litigation. services, legal direct after-school club. He earned an M.A. in after-school fellowships with Young People For, the For, People Young with fellowships one in Jackson, where he was a teacher he was where one in Jackson, members with Border Action Network, with Border members spent time both on the Annapolis and on / Civil Libertiessponsor of the Civil Rights the vice-chair of the Arizona Students’ of the Arizona Students’ the vice-chair of intersection at the that operates the Santa Fe campus and while in Santa and while campus Fe the Santa Campus Network. While Kendal’s heart is in Arizona, in Kendal’s While Network of the Public Service Coordinator College, where he graduated in 2004. He he graduated where College, Robert Pollack Line Leaders Academy and the Roosevelt and the Roosevelt Academy Line Leaders Kendal organized alongside low-income low-income alongside organized Kendal NYU Law at community Root-Tilden-Kern Fe was a field-qualified member of the St. a field-qualified was Fe Corps and taught Teacher Mississippi public high school inEnglish at a rural Sardis, Mississippi, and then at an urban Mississippi, Sardis, Association’s Board of Directors, and held of Directors, Board Association’s leadership Arizona, offering Anytown 2010 she moved to Brooklyn, in order to in order Brooklyn, to 2010 she moved Young Elected Officials Network’s Front Front Network’s Officials Elected Young John’s College Search and Rescue Team. and Rescue Search College John’s

in religion. Following Following in religion. graduation, Evan graduation, from Birmingham- from Evan graduated graduated Evan inSouthern College

2003 with a degree 2003 with a degree

Scholar amily F Service While teaching, Nick earned a Nick earned teaching, While Between 2005 and 2008, Evan Between Born in Houston, Texas and raised Texas Born in Houston, Public Lindemann worked as a community organizer for for organizer as a community worked issues at the University of KwaZulu-Natal at the University issues as a South Africa, in Pietermaritzburg, and earned dual minors in Spanish andand earned dual minors after law school to advocate for children children for advocate to law school after communities. in underserved an indigent criminal defense organization organization an indigent criminal defense also based in Alabama. aspires Alabama, Evan in Montgomery, environmental science. A native of Tucson, of Tucson, A native science. environmental graduate of the University of Arizona, of of the University graduate director of Teach For America–Los For of Teach director of the Year Award. Most recently, he recently, Most Award. of the Year environment. This experience sparked sparked This experience environment. disciplinary, community-based responses responses community-based disciplinary, of Alabama, a child-care advocacy and advocacy of Alabama, a child-care organization. development community study civil rights and education law. law. and education civil rights study Loyola from education in urban masters referendum to modify the state’s modify the state’s to referendum He then studied system. tax regressive spent several months working for a tax- for months working spent several Alabama encouraging campaign, reform served as the assistant to the executive the executive to as the assistant served marginalized people. marginalized paralegal for the Equal Justice Initiative, the Equal Justice for paralegal voters to support a constitutional support a constitutional to voters theology and economic development development and economic theology the Urban Education Student Researcher Student Researcher the Urban Education to the needs of formerly incarcerated and incarcerated the needs of formerly to to practice indigent defense law in indigent defense practice to the Federation of Child Care Centers Centers Care of Child the Federation Kendal Nystedt Evan MilliganEvan Marymount University, where he received he received where University, Marymount Nick’s interest in attending law school to in attending interest Nick’s Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. Scholar. Ambassadorial Rotary Kendal majored in international studies in international majored Kendal From 2008 to 20011, he worked as a 20011, he worked 2008 to From A summa cum laude and Phi Beta KappaA summa cum laude and Phi Beta Angeles. Nick plans to return to California California to return Nick plans to Angeles. Alabama. He also wants to explore multi- explore to Alabama. He also wants Ariel Werner a middle-school teacher in a school Alyson Zureick William and Mary Sterling Scholar designated as high-need. In 2010, Michele Filomen M. D’Agostino Scholar Ariel graduated from founded the Miami chapter of Stand- Alyson graduated Brown University in Up For Kids Don’t Run Away program. Phi Beta Kappa 2009 with honors in Through this program, she worked toward and with honors in political science. At curbing Miami’s substantial population of political science in Brown, she served as homeless youth through education and 2006 from Princeton Student Coordinator outreach within schools. University, where of the Right to Vote Campaign, a Michele sees inequity in education she was a Mellon Mays Undergraduate successful movement to end felony as one of the greatest causes of social Scholar, co-editor of the Daily Princetonian disenfranchisement in Rhode Island. unrest among disadvantaged groups and opinion page, and vice-president of She also coordinated Space in Prison that underserved communities are often the University’s Organization of for the Arts and Creative Expression, a inextricably tied to deficient institutions Women Leaders. program that provides student-led arts of education. She hopes to use her law After graduating from Princeton, and writing workshops in the state Adult degree to advocate for children and their Alyson worked at a number of Correctional Institutions and publishes families through advancing policies that international nonprofit organizations, the work of prisoner participants in an promote their welfare. focusing on women’s human rights, annual journal. Ariel has interned at the Michele was born and raised in access to justice and post-conflict Rhode Island Family Life Center for Ex- and near Detroit, to immigrant parents development. She first worked on access Offenders and at the Rhode Island Office from Ghana. to justice issues in sub-Saharan Africa as of the Public Defender. As a research a Princeton Project 55 Fellow at the Cyrus assistant, she investigated a case of Daniel Yu Vance Center for International Justice. wrongful conviction. In 2006 and 2008, Daniel graduated Subsequently, she worked with the Ariel delved into electoral politics, working from the University of International Rescue Committee in their on the campaigns of a Providence Southern California Sierra Leone office, where she provided city councilman, a Rhode Island State with a degree in program support to IRC’s gender-based representative, and President Obama. For accounting. As a violence and maternal health programs. her social justice pursuits and political student, Daniel She then spent two years with the Center advocacy during college, Ariel was named explored his interest in social enterprises for Reproductive Rights’ International a 2008 Harry S Truman Scholar. as a student consultant for the Los Legal Program where she worked on Ariel has served as a paralegal Angeles Community Impact, providing U.N. advocacy projects around maternal specialist in the United States Attorney’s pro bono business consulting services to mortality as a human rights issue and Office for the Eastern District of New York nonprofits in the greater Los Angeles area. reproductive rights violations as forms of for the past two years. She looks forward Daniel’s involvement with public torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading to pursuing a career in criminal justice interest began in high school with his treatment. reform through direct service, litigation, participation in Asian Pacific American Originally from Cincinnati, Alyson and public policy. Leadership Institute’s Leadership is now a committed Brooklynite. She’s Academy, where he cultivated a passion hoping, however, to give up the skinny Michele Yankson for Asian-American activism and jeans life after law school to live and work Andrew W. Mellon Scholar interethnic affairs. He built on this on women’s health and human rights Michele Yankson experience as policy intern at Asian issues in Africa. ■ graduated with Americans for Community Involvement honors from and APA Dispute Resolution Center. the University of Daniel developed his passion for the Michigan–Ann law at the Asian Pacific American Legal Arbor in 2008 with Center of Southern California, working as degrees in English and sociology. During a legal advocate for survivors of domestic college, she participated in service violence. His decision to pursue a career work from tutoring in underresourced in law was cemented after a research trip schools in Detroit and Ypsilanti with the to Cambodia with the Shoah Foundation America Reads program, to promoting in which he studied transitional justice campus discourse on issues of identity among ethnic minorities after the Khmer as a dialogue facilitator for Michigan’s Rouge genocide. Daniel’s interests in the Intergroup Relations. law include immigration and domestic After graduating, Michele joined violence advocacy, transitional justice, and Miami Teaching Fellows to serve as competition law. RTK News Fall 2011 11

worked at the U.S. Adam Herling ’12 worked Tyler Kinder ’13 Kinder Tyler with imperfect information in an imperfect information with imperfect window into how federal agencies federal how into window work. work. intended purposes by investigating cases purposes by investigating intended and the Middle East. Each one has been a East. and the Middle we use the evidence can we about how about so many things: a complex legal things: a complex about so many of fraud and corruption affecting the affecting and corruption of fraud agencies with their interest in international agencies with their interest ensure to by working reduction of poverty Latin America, in Asia, Africa, countries international human rights work both work human rights international exhilarating to be learning so quickly so quickly learning be to exhilarating elaborate financial products that can financial products elaborate excellent training provided by government by government provided training excellent fascinating study in how to build a case build to in how study fascinating on legal issues abroad and engaged in abroad issues on legal function at their best. Yan says, “It is says, Yan their best. function at framework that combines functions that combines framework agencies, and seven 19 statutes from for what comes after law school: being a law school: after what comes for ntergovernmental and Intergovernmental lawyer!” supports the World Bank’s overall mission overall Bank’s the World supports and winning, story. an accurate, tell to have system; I go home and wake up thinking I go home and wake system; regulatory landscape.” regulatory summer at the Special Litigation Unit in that Bank funds are used for their used for that Bank funds are trap consumers in cycles of debt, and in cycles consumers trap that shape the the policy considerations the Integrity Vice Presidency of the World of the World Presidency Vice the Integrity nternational Human Rights: International nternational Government Government International Bank. The Integrity Vice Presidency Presidency Vice Bank. The Integrity and projects. investments Bank’s says, Tyler on his experience, Reflecting Several students decided to combine the combine decided to students Several of Legal Office in the Department of State Students also focused their attention also focused Students Agencies: Tyler Kinder ’13 spent his Adviser and Tyler This experience has made me very excited excited very has made me This experience “I’ve worked on cases in more than eight in more on cases worked “I’ve

Rachael Dizard, who worked in the who worked Dizard, Rachael an Cao ’13 spent the summer at the wonderful supervisors and mentors who and mentors supervisors wonderful abuse has been deeply fulfilling—and abuse has been deeply about her say had this to in Newark, me given amount of law and consistently and writing under their supervision, and the future.” and perhaps government—in created federal agency. Yan worked in worked Yan agency. federal created on worked research, engaged in legal everything that I could have hoped for. I hoped for. have that I could everything tolerated generously even have own—they law— in immigration working continue start-up projects relating to standing-up standing-up to relating projects start-up seeing administrative law come to life has life to law come seeing administrative experience.” learning been an invaluable with of working had the good fortune have me an impressive taught patiently have turn every to tendency my law student I have a debate! into project research research my legal develop to been able Government: to get in on the ground floor of this newly of this newly floor get in on the ground to she Division, where the Enforcement meetings and and attended the agency, her an invaluable which gave trainings time at the DOJ: “My 2L summer as a time at the DOJ: on my work produce the opportunity to this summer has made me eager to Office for Immigration Review at the Review Immigration for Office Bureau, where she had the opportunity where Bureau, Executive Office for Immigration Review Review Immigration for Office Executive with the Executive Summer Law Intern Court has been Immigration Newark U.S. Consumer Financial Protection U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Y

Julia Kaye interned in the Special interned Julia Kaye Summer Employment! the throughout scattered Scholars RTK summer, This past country and the world to work on a variety of important of on a variety work to world and the country grouped We’ve training. hands-on legal get and to issues some share to them by theme and asked their internships about read you’ll Below of their summers. of the highlights legal providing from undertook—ranging they the work federal researching in China to workers migrant to services regulations. air and climate clean working for the U.S. Department for working and participated extensively in the DOJ in the DOJ extensively and participated under the Freedom of Access to Clinic to of Access under the Freedom in the ’13 in DC, and Abigail Nurse in the Civil ’13 Julia Kaye in Newark, a proposed rule. Last semester, I learned semester, Last rule. a proposed obligation statutory about an agency’s Rachael Dizard ’12 in the Rachael Dizard of Justice: drafting parts of its preamble. Helping preamble. of its parts drafting final rule on the Prison Rape Elimination on the Prison Rape final rule facilities prevent and respond to sexual sexual to and respond prevent facilities law school, I was involved in an agency involved law school, I was rule-making process as an advocate, as an advocate, process rule-making to response in comments draft helping to months later, a few Just rule. proposed reaching impact on how confinement confinement impact on how reaching substantive revisions to the rule, and the rule, to revisions substantive violations in the juvenile justice system, system, justice violations in the juvenile year and a half ago, before coming to coming and a half ago, before year I’m deliberating how DOJ should respond respond should DOJ how I’m deliberating to respond to public comments on a comments public to respond to to craft standards that will have a far- that will have standards craft to to comments on PREA, contributing on PREA, contributing comments to Working Group tasked with developing a with developing tasked Group Working Columbia. Department of Justice: Entrances Act, researched due process due process Act, researched Entrances Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice Rights Division—Special Litigation Section Division—Special Litigation Rights Executive Office for Immigration Review Review Immigration for Office Executive U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of the District for Office U.S. Attorney’s

Class of 2012 and2012 of Class 2013 Summer Jobs Summer 2013 (DOJ). She drafted motions in lawsuits She drafted (DOJ). Act of 2003 (PREA). Julia comments, “A “A Act of 2003 (PREA). Julia comments, Three students spent their summers students Three domestically and overseas. Nikki Reisch Security Program; and the Speech, the labor movement, and exciting to work ’12 interned at the Center for Human Privacy, and Technology Program. She in one of labor’s strongholds here in NYC,” Rights and Global Justice, working recalls, “There have been so many great says Sara. “I’ve been assisting the general with RTK Director Meg Satterthwaite. moments here. One was traveling to DC counsel with the union’s litigation docket, Francesca Corbacho ’13, Semuteh to watch the National Security Program drafting briefs and researching issues Freeman ’13, and Julia Torti ’13 each argue Meshal v. Higgenbotham (and for federal court litigation and helping received a Center for Human Rights getting to meet Amir Meshal); another to interview and prepare witnesses and Global Justice’s International Law was filing my first complaint on which I for testimony relating to unfair labor and Human Rights Student Fellowship was the primary drafter. It was exciting to practice charges before the National this summer to work at People’s Watch watch the court clerk at the SDNY punch Labor Relations Board. I’ve also had in Tamil Nadu, India (Francesca); the stamps all over our filing documents and the opportunity to visit striking workers Kenya National Commission on Human then check to see which judges we got.” at a Manhattan apartment building Rights in Nairobi, Kenya (Semuteh); and participate in campaign strategy and the International Lesbian & Gay Public Interest Law Firms: meetings with attorneys, organizers, and Association—Europe, in Brussels, Others chose to protect civil rights researchers from the union.” Belgium (Julia). Semuteh worked on and civil liberties at public interest law Saerom Park was at SEIU in judicial and penal reforms at the Kenya firms, which specialize in one or more Washington, DC, mostly doing research National Commission on Human Rights, public interest law areas or work with and writing. She helped SEIU’s efforts where she had the opportunity to travel an underrepresented group. Frances to organize workers who provide home around Kenya doing prison inspections Kreimer ’12 worked at Kairys, Rudovsky, care to developmentally and intellectually and interviewing magistrate judges and Messing & Feinberg LLP in Philadelphia disabled clients, through close analysis police officers to come up with strategies and Matt Craig ’13 and Gabe Hopkins of state public records laws, and for solving prison overcrowding. She ’13 were at Schonbrun, De Simone, helped with a successful petition to presented at the Malindi Coast Rights Seplow, Harris, Hoffman, and Harrison in extend all home child-care payments Forum on human rights abuses in the salt Venice, California. Matt and Gabe’s work during the Minnesota state government mining industry on the impact that the involved numerous Alien Tort Statute shutdown, which would have had serious KNCHR Inquiry on human rights abuses cases, police brutality cases, and one consequences for many participating has had on the salt mining sector. Since Guantánamo detainee case. The two had families and providers who are barely most of the participants in the conference the opportunity to draft parts of appellate making ends meet. were members of civil society in Malindi briefs, edit cert petitions, and research reported on this issue on July 8, 2011, and didn’t speak English, she did her novel questions of law that stand to have in an article entitled “Shutdown in entire presentation in Kiswahili! a huge impact on human rights litigation Minnesota Ripples Out to Day Care.” in U.S. courts. Matt and Gabe say, “One ACLU: of the best experiences was when the Legal Services: NYU team was asked to draft a petition for initial hearing en banc for an important ATS case—an unusual legal maneuver, but something our employer believed we were prepared to handle.”

Labor and Immigration: Valerie Brender ‘12, Kate Berry ‘13, and Students also focused their efforts on Pierce Suen ‘13 Elana Fogel ‘13 immigration and labor law. Camilo Romero ’12 worked on immigration issues Three students provided legal services in Back in New York, three students at the National Immigration Law Center various parts of the world. Tyler Jaeckel protected domestic civil rights in several in Los Angeles. Sara Cullinane ’12 and ’12 spent part of his summer at the different departments of the American Saerom Park ’12 aided both immigrant Legal Aid of Central Minnesota, Legal Civil Liberties Union. Valerie Brender ’12 and non-immigrant workers at the Service Services Advocacy Project; Amanda worked at the Center for Democracy, Kate Employees International Union. Sara Sen ’12 interned at the Brooklyn Family Berry ’13 spent her summer at the Racial worked at SEIU Local 32BJ in the General Defense Project; and Pierce Suen ’13 was Justice Program, and Elana Fogel ’13 Counsel’s office in New York City. 32BJ at the Beijing Legal Aid Center for Rural worked at the Initiative to Combat Mass is the largest property services union in Migrants. Pierce worked with the Zhi Incarceration. Valerie had the privilege the country, representing over 120,000 Cheng Public Interest Law Organization, of working with three different programs janitors, security guards, and building which provides direct legal services to through the Center for Democracy—the maintenance workers, from Connecticut migrant workers and indigent children, Human Rights Program; the National to Florida. “It’s been great to be back in and also engages in legal research and

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The Root-Tilden-Kern Class The Root-Tilden-Kern Class of 2014 came together for the for together of 2014 came 23-24 at the time on August first Center Princeton-Blairstown with Jersey, New in Blairstown, Deb Ellis ’82, Faculty Director ’99, Meg Satterthwaite Director Jorge Administrator and Program The weather Valle. Luis Paniagua beautiful and the was exceptionally a walk on the camp enjoyed class a campfire, by s’mores grounds, and a game of Frisbee. Class of 2014 of Class Orientation

assisted ’13 assisted Mitchell Candace interned at ’13 interned Lindsay Miller As a Rule Nine intern at the Defender at the Defender Nine intern As a Rule at the New York Legal York de León ’13 at the New Emily was able to use my experience in working use my experience to able was education and my legal with families intern and I co-counseled a jury trial, and I co-counseled intern and we won!” ■ won!” and we at the Defender Association Williams ’12 at the Defender ’12 at the San Grant Ashley in Seattle; in Montgomery. license practice a limited given are interns with another and, along a caseload, of all aspects for responsible are intern, She thefts. and two an assault/trespass, has been the Association at the Defender interning in public defender’s offices all offices in public defender’s interning opportunity I’ve had to litigate on behalf litigate had to opportunity I’ve to jury selection, conduct of a client, to and get appropriate help parents to attorneys and researching investigating intake, over the country: Shannon Cumberbatch the country: over cases, and writing hearing requests. “I hearing requests. and writing cases, for Children’s Rights, Ali worked with Ali worked Rights, Children’s for opportunities come educational greater responsibilities similar to those of the full- those similar to responsibilities receive Bar, State by the Washington assigned was Talia and trial. preparation thing about my summer “The best reports, and a jury, to opening statements present placements and services for their children their children for and services placements at with cases attorneys by assisting youths in criminal procedures at the procedures in criminal youths have would they ensuring summer, Intervention and Diversion; Aisha Dennis and Diversion; Intervention time misdemeanor attorneys. Rule Nine Rule time misdemeanor attorneys. assaults, misdemeanor cases—two five to in opened court. witnesses examine to Talia Gooding- of Columbia; Talia the District to benefit my clients throughout the throughout clients benefit my to Public Defenders: Halfway through the summer, another summer, the through Halfway Zack Orjuela Public Defender; Francisco Malavé and Evelyn in Charlotte; Defender Rights; Rights; Seven students spent their summers students Seven Lawyers For Children. At Partnership At Partnership Children. For Lawyers September,” reflects Ali. reflects September,” Aid Society, Criminal Practice, Adolescent Adolescent Practice, Criminal Aid Society, on take to able was Talia Association, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana; Project Justice Juvenile at the Public Defender Service for for Service ’12 at the Public Defender Public Defenders; ’12 at the Orleans County Public ’13 at the Mecklenburg of Alabama Initiative ’13 at Equal Justice worked at Partnership for Children’s Children’s for at Partnership ’13 worked

Leslie Coleman ’13, Leslie Coleman

Martha Roberts ’12 spent their Relic Sun ’13, with uncoordinated extraterrestrials. The extraterrestrials. with uncoordinated catch to guaranteed you’re warning, workers’ compensation schemes abroad, schemes abroad, compensation workers’ air toxics standards for major sources of major sources for standards air toxics “I’ve air pollution. Martha says, industrial and a couple flying elbows, and there will and there elbows, flying a couple moments be some cringe-worthy always and black lung litigation. Pierce muses Pierce and black lung litigation. playing is sometimes like issues, including education matters matters including education issues, day-to-day details of litigation—what it’s it’s of litigation—what details day-to-day district courts, and helped research and and helped research courts, district community on proposed comments draft on ongoing litigation related to federal federal to on ongoing litigation related She regulations. air and climate clean on research history legislative conducted environment at the Natural Resources Resources at the Natural environment of absolute despair. Yet, just when all has just Yet, despair. of absolute seems chaos and everything to devolved education system. Ali Puente-Douglass system. education community health. What could be better?” health. What could community farmers. He primarily worked on research on research worked primarily He farmers. for students with special needs who students for in the public obstacles significant face for children and teens on a variety of on a variety and teens children for learned a tremendous amount about the a tremendous learned legislative drill, how a filing fire have to like little courage, a lot of grind, and a smile, a lot courage, little lost, there will be a Woody Harrelson Harrelson will be a Woody there lost, history research really works, how the how works, really research history change law can case of circuit nuances briefs that were filed in federal circuit and circuit federal in filed that were briefs summers creating positive change for our change for positive creating summers miracle, a sign from on high that, with a sign from a miracle, rules have a tendency to change without to a tendency have rules memos, covering corporate social corporate memos, covering supplier factories, in Chinese responsibility policy advocacy. Pierce worked on a worked Pierce advocacy. policy housing greater aimed at securing project rural for rights land tenure security and your argument depending on the forum … on the forum depending argument your the Clean Air Act, assisted with drafting Air Act, assisted the Clean that “working for social justice in China in social justice for that “working training to work protecting clean air and clean protecting work to training things will get better.” Others provided support and services support and services provided Others Education/Children’s Rights: Education/Children’s Environmental: Every day I put my brand new legal new I put my brand day Every Defense Council in Beijing (Relic), the Beijing (Relic), Council in Defense (Leslie), and Fund Defense Environmental (Martha). Martha worked Earthjustice Tyler Kinder ’13 Kinder Tyler Bloomberg administration to the New Alumni Working in York City subsidized child-care program, through forming an emergency coalition with advocacy organizations, parents, Education Law members of the clergy, education professors, and elementary school Each year we profile several alumni working in a specific area principals to speak out against the proposed cuts. The final budget passed of public interest. This year our focus is on the diverse ways with far fewer cuts than had been that Root-Tilden-Kern alumni are involved in improving our originally proposed. nation’s education system. But despite these challenges, Levine is not deterred. She is happy to be at an Alumni Spotlight: Randi Levine organization like AFC that uses legal and Improving Education RTK alumnus non-legal strategies, such as community A prominent leader in government on Randi Levine ’08 outreach and organizing, to fight for every education issues is Senator Lamar is a staff attorney child’s access to a high-quality education. Alexander ’65, who was U.S. Education at Advocates for Reflecting on her path since deciding to Secretary from 1991 to 1993, and now Children, where she apply to law school, Levine spoke about serves on the Senate Committee of focuses on improving how she had written her law school Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions early childhood education through a admissions essay about her desire to (HELP), where he is currently working to combination of legal representation, continue advocating for early childhood fix the No Child Left Behind law. policy advocacy, and community outreach education, while doubting that she would Another example of Root leadership, training. Levine’s interest in education actually be able to find such a job. Three this time from the nonprofit world, is law dates back to her childhood, when years later, she had received an Equal Geri Palast ’76, who until recently was she attended New York City public Justice Works fellowship to work at AFC. the executive director of the Campaign schools and her mother worked in for Fiscal Equity (CFE); under her the school system as a teacher and Martha J. Olson leadership CFE won a case establishing an administrator. Growing up, Levine Martha J. Olson, ’80 the constitutional right in New York State remembers hearing stories about the knew that if she to a sound basic education for all public school system’s challenges, and how they wanted to play a part school students. were particularly accentuated in schools in improving public Finally, illustrating the power of with high poverty rates. education, she had individual action is Richard (Dick) Weill After graduating from college, Levine to spend time in the ’67. Now retired from the practice of went to work on federal education policy classroom. That’s why, after working for law, Dick and his wife, Judy, have made in Washington, DC, with Fight Crime: several years as a litigator at Debevoise & a financial commitment to pay for the Invest in Kids and the Religious Action Plimpton and the New York State Office of college education of about 25 elementary Center. In DC, Levine realized that she the Attorney General, and an advocate for school children at a housing project in wanted to become a public interest children’s issues, she went back into the Denver. Dick and Judy also mentor the lawyer. “I saw that many of the advocates classroom to teach at a public high school students and assist with homework. in DC who were challenging the system before assuming her current position and fighting for the rights of those who leading the innovative Bard High School Below are profiles of four other RTK needed help the most were attorneys,” Early College (BHSEC) program at Bard alumni working to improve education in she said. At NYU Law School, Levine College. Olson is currently the Dean of diverse ways: built on her interest in education, serving Education Initiatives at Bard College and as co-chair of NYU’s Education Law Dean of Administration at BHSEC, where and Policy Society, and co-founding the she coordinates the college’s relationship Suspension Representation Project. with three public high schools that The current economic crisis has provide students the opportunity to made this a challenging time to be an complete four years of study and earn early childhood education lawyer, as a high school diploma and two years federal, state, and local governments of college credit through a rigorous propose cuts to early childhood education liberal arts curriculum, which she also and child-care programs. Levine and administers. “There are a lot of people advocates at other organizations recently who want to come in and do all sorts of beat back a proposed budget cut by the different projects to reform education, RTK News Fall 2011 15 For future education reformers, reformers, education future For From there, Sarbanes moved into Sarbanes moved there, From That desire to connect resources resources connect to That desire for health, another for housing, and for health, another for brought Sarbanes to his current job. his current Sarbanes to brought he transitioned back to community community back to he transitioned and transportation to access housing law, Working for the Baltimore City Public the Baltimore for Working the ability of kids to succeed.” the ability of kids to change” transformative for that is ready tackled over his career, Sarbanes finds his career, over tackled used a collective advocacy approach to approach advocacy used a collective the resources to address the unique address to the resources the kids,” and described his job as “trying and described his job as “trying the kids,” that had built a perception overcome to you.” don’t want that we the years up over Baltimore, Sarbanes noted that “a lot of that “a lot Sarbanes noted Baltimore, neighborhoods into “places that support “places neighborhoods into needs of different communities. communities. needs of different notes that when public services are are that when public services notes units—one discrete partitioned off into and provide social problems multifaceted Office of Partnerships, Communications, of Partnerships, Office marginalized that help keep partnerships on [had been] focused punishment energy Sarbanes’s advice is to “look for a system a system for “look is to advice Sarbanes’s Schools as the Executive Director for the for Director Schools as the Executive Office of Crime Control and Prevention and Prevention of Crime Control Office draws on his community contacts to foster foster to contacts on his community draws and then go in there and do it yourself. and then go in there a common thread in his desire to make make to in his desire thread a common at the Community Law Center, where he where Law Center, Community at the and Community Engagement, Sarbanes advocate for themselves. themselves. for advocate approach. a community-oriented another still for sanitation—they fail to fail sanitation—they for another still and then acting as the deputy chief ofand then acting as the strengthen the ability of communities to the ability of communities strengthen staff for Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Governor Lieutenant for staff the New Speaking to in school. students state-level policy work, running the State running work, policy state-level organizing, this time as the Director time as the Director this organizing, Housingof Citizens Planning and such as on issues and litigated organized Sarbanes on-demand drug treatment. facing communities serve competently After the end of the governor’s term, of the governor’s the end After At CPHA Sarbanes (CPHA). Association for a story on school reform in on school reform a story Times for York Tying together the many projects he has the many projects together Tying Townsend. In both roles, he maintained In both roles, Townsend. has been working to strengthen strengthen to Baltimore and Baltimore and raised inand raised since graduating since communities there there communities Feldman encourages law students, law students, encourages Feldman Feldman credits the Root-Tilden- credits Feldman As a student, Sarbanes had spentAs a student, who can think critically and recognize and recognize think critically who can were destroying blocks. However, he However, blocks. destroying were from NYU School of Law. Sarbanes NYU School of Law. from law, Sarbanes convinced the city to pay the city to Sarbanes convinced law, his career choice possible: “Being possible: choice his career by the crack epidemic and prevalent epidemic and prevalent by the crack justice empowered me to dedicate mydedicate me to empowered justice to change that system. So many areas So many areas change that system. to equitable of improving the importance systemic are our nation, there throughout the infrastructure inequities built into intensely committed to equity and to committed intensely in a career consider to in education, the type of communities that could that could the type of communities tasks was to rebuild communities ravaged ravaged communities rebuild to was tasks in court would not be sufficient.” He not be sufficient.” would in court Kern scholarship program with making with program scholarship Kern Michael Sarbanes ’92 was bornMichael Sarbanes ’92 was practices in teaching. In every classroom, classroom, In every in teaching. practices that.” help dismantle to people part of a cadre of people who are who are people of part of a cadre that end.” to career professional with a background those particularly has been system public education recognized that litigation was not enough.that litigation was recognized Community Law Center. One of his first One of his first Community Law Center. designed to restrict access to large large to access restrict designed to need advocates and we of people, groups Michael Sarbanes district has tripled. district don’t do the organizing work, the lawyers the lawyers work, don’t do the organizing action. Sarbanes learned that “if you action. Sarbanes learned attention to the vacant housing lots that housing lots the vacant to attention Legal Aid. Rural a summer at Texas applied these lessons in Baltimore while in Baltimore applied these lessons students enrolled in AP classes in the in classes in AP enrolled students started with a Skadden Fellowship at the Fellowship a Skadden with started of public education are in need of people are of public education district and every school, every need many and we of public education education law and administration: “Our and administration: law education community organizing as a tool to build to as a tool organizing community and amplify the gains of legal effectuate open-air drug sales. Using nuisance Using nuisance open-air drug sales. The organization aggressively used aggressively The organization

“NYU Law School and the Root School and the Root “NYU Law where he helped teachers start a school- start he helped teachers where with principals within-a-school and works worry is that kids will be frustrated and is that kids will be frustrated worry with principals and teachers to open to with principals and teachers working first as an administrator in the as an administrator first working for African American and Latino students. and Latino students. American African for fail. But passage rates stayed the same.” the same.” stayed rates But passage fail. high school serving the city’s poorest poorest high school serving the city’s but unless they have spent time in the spent time have they but unless back into the world of public education, the world back into Without Bells: What We Can Learn from Can Learn from Without Bells: What We to create more culturally responsive and responsive culturally more create to the Union City, California, school district, California, the Union City, up access. We said, ’If you want to take take to want said, ’If you We up access. The them.’ take can you these classes, teacher, after law school Feldman dove dove law school Feldman after teacher, interested in an intellectual life at such life in an intellectual interested that the school’s rigorous curriculum is curriculum rigorous that the school’s Feldman spearheaded an effort to expand expand to an effort spearheaded Feldman Powerful Practice in Small Schools” in Small Schools” Practice Powerful New York City public schools and then City York New For Joe Feldman ’99, a desire to ’99, a desire Joe Feldman For In just the first year of the initiative, the of the initiative, year the first In just (Paradigm, 2010), Feldman currently currently 2010), Feldman (Paradigm, neighborhoods. The author of “Teaching neighborhoods. The author of “Teaching BHSEC’s campuses in New York City York in New campuses BHSEC’s number of African American and Latino American number of African process to an inclusive process,” Feldman Feldman process,” an inclusive to process moving to Washington, DC, to found the found DC, to Washington, to moving program gave me the skills to be a good me the skills to gave program most rewarding part of her job is knowing part rewarding most guided his studies at NYU School of Law. School of Law. at NYU guided his studies access to Advanced Placement classes Placement Advanced to access a young age is so critical, gratifying, age is so critical, a young and inspiring.” advocate and critical thinker, and the thinker, and critical advocate and beyond. “To see young people get people see young “To and beyond. and Newark, New Jersey. For Olson, the For Jersey. New and Newark, serves as director of K-12 Education in of K-12 Education as director serves said of the AP classes. “I worked closely closely “I worked said of the AP classes. says Olson. says setting up students for success in college in college success for setting up students says Olson. It’s those same skills that those same Olson. It’s says than 1200 more in the instill to she works in enrolled currently who are students equitable teaching practices. Recently, Recently, practices. teaching equitable effect change in the educational system system educational change in the effect classroom, they have really missed out,” out,” missed really have they classroom, credentials to open doors for others,” others,” for open doors to credentials A former high school English and history English and history high school A former Thurgood Marshall Academy, a charter Academy, Marshall Thurgood Joe Feldman “We changed the process from a restrictive a restrictive from changed the process “We Class Gordon A. Martin Jr. ’60 contains the complete Atlas Shrugged Judge Jim Exum joined Gordon Martin in Part I film and other original video a June presentation in Charlotte, North content from Reason Foundation. His Notes Carolina, about his book Count Them commentary about Rand is also available One by One: Black Mississippians Fighting on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ for the Right to Vote. The July issue of watch?v=srB5fI2pBp4. Gerald E. Matzke ’55 ChOICE magazine says “Martin’s gift as a Although I had my 80th birthday this storyteller invites readers to understand Richard J. Cummins ’64 past March, I continue to practice law the heroes and villains and why they acted Richard J. Cummins has completed 16 full-time as the senior partner of my as they did.” years of teaching international subjects firm, which specializes in oil and gas (especially comparative law) at The law, and as a lifelong Republican, work Manny Klausner, ’62 George Washington University Law for the reelection of U.S. Senator Ben School, and recently he was honored Nelson, who was the Democrat governor by his alma mater, Iona College, with a of Nebraska who appointed me to the lifetime achievement award (the Loftus Nebraska legislature more than a Award) for law practice and teaching. decade ago. His son, Paul, who co-heads In my spare time, I wonder about the lobbying firm Northbridge the multitude of crimes, frauds, scams, Communications, and his wife, Kelly, swindles, graft and chicanery perpetrated have given Richard and his wife, Diane, by the financial institutions of Wall Street Manny Klausner and his wife, Willette, (married 47 years) two grandsons, Grant and the largest of our nation’s banks and enjoyed a dazzling 50-course end-of-era Alwin and Henry Rudyard. I ask: WHERE WERE THE LAWYERS? menu in July, during El Bulli’s closing Newsweek magazine featured an week. (Both pictured above with the James Edwin Kee ’69 article on June 22, 2009, that quoted Elihu legendary Catalan chef, Ferran Adrià, in James Edwin (Jed) Kee and his spouse, Root, who said, “About half the practice of his kitchen) Suzanne Erlon, are in the process of a decent lawyer consists in telling would- During the spring, he participated retiring to Tucson, Arizona. Jed is a be clients that they are damned fools and in a three-state speaking tour of the professor of public policy and public should stop.” Pacific Northwest, and spoke at various management at George Washington University in DC and previously served “About half the practice of a stints as department chair and dean decent lawyer consists in telling of the School of Business and Public Management. He writes frequently on would-be clients that they are topics of public finance, leadership, and damned fools and should stop.” public-private partnerships and recently published Transforming Public and Elihu Root, quoted in Newsweek magazine Nonprofit Organizations: Stewardship for on June 22, 2009 Leading Change. Jed will conclude his Obviously, the attorneys for major law schools and to other organizations 28th year as a full-time faculty and looks financial institutions and banks did a on a variety of subjects, including forward to doing some nonacademic less than adequate professional service libertarianism, the war on drugs, and the writing and to pursuing his duplicate in hundreds of instances, causing more constitutionality of Obama’s health care bridge hobby. Suzanne has retired as damage to our capitalist system than all legislation. artistic director of Metropolitan Ballet the efforts of Communism over the He continues to be active as a Theatre in Maryland and is now a board past 50 years. trustee of Reason Foundation and lead member of the Tucson Ballet Company. Why has legal education in the U.S. Reason’s activities in submitting briefs They have bought a home in Academy failed to provide our nation with more amicus curiae in significant cases. He Village in Tucson, a 55+ community of Elihu Roots? also continues to serve as outside continuous learners, and enjoy the weekly general counsel to the Individual Rights concerts and lectures. Their son, James J. Foundation, the legal arm of the David Kee, is an opera singer and currently the Horowitz Freedom Center. principal baritone with the Rostock Opera His commentary on Ayn Rand and her Company in Germany. threat to sue Reason Magazine is featured in a special Collector’s Edition DVD that RTK News Fall 2011 17

LaF Like all kids, hers are growing up far up far growing are all kids, hers Like when they should. (She is certain that the (She is certain should. when they where she is the arts editor for The for editor arts she is the where from whistleblowing (http://www.osc.gov/ whistleblowing from you.) Most patients are simply no match for for no match simply are patients Most you.) became the legal director of the Center for for of the Center director the legal became lightweight). Laura is a sophomore at the is a sophomore Laura lightweight). and dance loves high school (and local Washington, DC, employment law firm DC, employment Washington, University and Jewish Theological Theological and Jewish University U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC). The of Special U.S. Office the joint B.A. program of Columbia the joint B.A. program to the position of special counsel in the the position of special counsel to insurance companies for not paying claims paying not for companies insurance the actuarial departments, which designthe actuarial departments, at Lafayette a sophomore Julia is fast. too Heller, Huron, Chertkof, Lerner, Simon & Lerner, Chertkof, Huron, Heller, Barbara is still a partner at Wilentz a partner is still Barbara In April the Senate confirmed President President confirmed In April the Senate at the a partner Ms. Lerner, Intro.htm). prosecutorial agency that protects federal federal agency that protects prosecutorial Carolyn Lerner ’89 Carolyn more time in NYC again when visiting her again time in NYC more On September 1, 2011, Baher AzmyOn September York. in New Rights Constitutional OSC is an independent investigative and OSC is an independent investigative Obama’s nomination of Carolyn Lerner nomination of Carolyn Obama’s Goldman & Spitzer in Woodbridge, New in Woodbridge, & Spitzer Goldman news that insurers routinely avoid paying avoid routinely that insurers news Seminary. Younger daughter Emma Starr daughter Younger Seminary. Salzman, will join OSC for a five-year term. a five-year Salzman, will join OSC for new ways to skimp on paying benefits. on paying skimp to ways new women’s playing and loves newspaper though she is 5’2” and rugby (even theater). musical Baher Azmy ’96 Barbara Quackenbos ’88 Quackenbos Barbara College in nearby Easton, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, in nearby Easton, College daughter Gabrielle Starr, who is attending Starr, Gabrielle daughter attends Maimonides High School.attends employees and applicants from reprisals reprisals from and applicants employees claims comes as no surprise to many of as no surprise to claims comes Jennifer Gallop ’91 Gallop Jennifer Jennifer is excited to be able to spend to be able to is excited Jennifer Jersey. She continues to sue health to She continues Jersey.

Web site. Web Prior to joining the New York State York joining the New Prior to where she worked since 1985. She since she worked where for a man who would not live through the through not live a man who would for him to perform an emergency wedding an emergency perform him to find can You partner of 38 years. his life he performed as a judge. In the piece, he as a judge. In the piece, he performed has three primary components—pro primary components—pro has three diversity service, bono and community New York York New on the piece the heartwarming in the Modern Love column of the Fashion of the Fashion column Love in the Modern including the growing number of programs number of programs including the growing with team and staff in which attorneys bono and other on pro in-house counsel works Ms. Schachter worldwide. initiatives the firm. The firm’s Global CSR Program CSR Program Global the firm. The firm’s Eric Schneiderman named Janet Sabel deputy attorney executive State’s York New night and whose final wish was to marry to wish was night and whose final Baker & McKenzie named partner & McKenzie Baker Director Global as its Schachter Madeleine previously served as a staff attorney in the attorney as a staff served previously recounts and reflects on the night when and reflects recounts Civil Division’s Brooklyn Neighborhood Brooklyn Civil Division’s in the Civil attorney and staff Office Award. Public Service County Lawyers new position which coordinates and drives and drives position which coordinates new On December 22, Attorney General-elect General-elect 22, Attorney On December New York York New 20, 2011, the On October Schachter, who is based in the firm’s New who is based in the firm’s Schachter, Madeleine Schachter ’82 Schachter Madeleine immerman ’78 immerman Z Lloyd general counsel for the Legal Aid Society, the Legal Aid Society, for counsel general general for Social Justice. Social Justice. for general a hospice worker telephoned him to beg him to telephoned worker a hospice and in 2002, she received the New York York the New and in 2002, she received a Judgment on Love” by Lloyd Zimmerman by Lloyd on Love” a Judgment and inclusion, and sustainability. Ms. and inclusion, and sustainability. in these areas, strategies and future with an emphasis bono practice pro active she received the New York State Bar State York the New she received exclusively on CSR matters, including in an on CSR matters, exclusively rights, humanitarian on international issues. and civil rights law, constitutional of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), a Responsibility Social of Corporate across social responsibility corporate York office, will help implement current current will help implement office, York Appeals and Law Reform Unit. In 1997, Appeals and Law Reform Law Award, Public Interest Association Attorney General’s office, Sabel was office, General’s Attorney & Style section about a deathbed wedding & Style Times published a piece entitled “Making entitled a piece Times published Janet Sabel ’84 In addition to being a school board being a school board In addition to A Master Board Member and four-time Board A Master works for the federal Department of the federal for works from the New York City Bar Association. City Bar York the New from litigation partner at Wachtell Lipton Rosen Rosen Lipton at Wachtell litigation partner further represented Ohio at the national level the national Ohio at further represented the Ohio School Boards Association. Here Here Association. the Ohio School Boards that the release of the press is an excerpt he has served on countless committees and committees he has served on countless the National School Boards Association on Association Schoolthe National Boards Network Pre- and its Relations the Federal Minnesota. Education in Washington and Geoff is in Washington Education Labor Law, Civil Procedure, and Legal Civil Procedure, Labor Law, the of Negotiations. He also chair-elect Narcotics Prosecutor. Narcotics Medal for Outstanding District Attorney Attorney District Outstanding Medal for Luncheon at the Pierre, the Police Athletic Police the at the Pierre, Luncheon a B. Pedowitz, Lawrence League honored political director of an independent PAC in an independent PAC of director political (Richard) and Yale (Geoff). Richard now (Geoff). Richard and Yale (Richard) member, Charlie remains a law professor professor a law Charlie remains member, Charlie Wilson ’76 Connie Fernandez ’75 Connie Fernandez Ohio School Boards Association sent out: Association Ohio School Boards On August 27, Charlie was unanimously unanimously 27, Charlie was On August Connie was awarded the Thomas E. Dewey the Thomas E. Dewey awarded Connie was Lawrence Pedowitz ’72 Pedowitz Lawrence are recent graduates of Amherst College of Amherst graduates recent are at Ohio State University Moritz College Moritz College University at Ohio State Kindergarten Committee. Kindergarten and in the Office of the City’s Special of the City’s and in the Office Charlie is now servingCharlie is now in his fifth year on the recipient of OSBA’s Award of Achievement, of Award OSBA’s of recipient as well, with sharing his time and expertise as liaison to numerous organizations. He has organizations. numerous as liaison to Worthington City Board of Education where where Education of City Board Worthington selected to be the 2012 president-elect of be the 2012 president-elect to selected of Law, where he teaches Education Law, Law, Education he teaches where of Law, outstanding assistant district attorney in attorney district assistant outstanding offices Attorney’s District each of the City’s Athletic Council at Ohio State. His sons Council at Ohio State. Athletic At its 13th Annual legal Professional Professional 13th Annual legal At its & Katz. The medal is presented annually to an to annually The medal is presented Miriam Aukerman ’00 Philippines. RTK alumni Nicolas King ’05, Ani Mason ’07 Miriam opened up the first American Civil his wife, Dawn, and son, Ellison; Mina Ani has worked as a Skadden Fellow Liberties Union office in West Michigan Kim ’05 and her husband, Kevin; and and staff attorney for Legal Services this past December. Located in Grand Alina Das ’05 and her fiancé, Nafees, NYC for the last three years, litigating Rapids, the office works on a wide range danced the night away with the new complex divorces in the Family Law of issues and will allow the ACLU to be married couple. Units of Queens and South Brooklyn more accessible to the community. While the Bay Area may not be home Legal Services. Through her experience to as many RTK scholars as NYC, three as a litigator, and through her ongoing Michele Benedetto Neitz ’01 Roots serve on the Executive Board of the training with the Center for Mediation Michele and her husband, Jeff, welcomed American Constitution Society’s Bay Area in Law, Ani has become a passionate a baby boy in December 2010. Michele Lawyer Chapter. Yohance Edwards ’03 is advocate for the role of mediation in was granted tenure this spring at Golden chair. Christine Van Aken ’02 is former helping people work through conflict. Gate University School of Law in San Outreach co-chair, and Susan as the Inspired by mediation’s ability to engage Francisco. Vice-chair and Outreach co-chair. All and empower low-income families, three would love to have more RTK she designed and created the Family Liyah Brown ’04 alumni involved! & Divorce Mediation Project, the first Liyah and her nine-year-old (!) daughter, legal services-run mediation program spent the summer in Kathmandu, Nepal. Annie Lai ’06 in New York State. To Ani’s (and Queens Liyah worked with Susan Lee ’06 at the Annie left the ACLU of Arizona to become Legal Services’s) delight, the Skadden International Legal Fellowship, helping the Robert M. Cover Clinical Teaching Fellowship Foundation recently awarded to train Nepali lawyers in client-centered Fellow at . a Flom Incubator Grant to support the indigent defense and trial advocacy. In innovative work of the Family & Divorce September, she returned to work at Susan Lee ’06 Mediation Project. Public Defender Service of Washington, Namaste! As Susan previously reported, D.C. she moved to Kathmandu, Nepal, in Shanti Hubbard ’09 January 2011 as the International Shanti’s two years at Georgetown’s E. Alina Das ’05 Program director for the International Barrett Prettyman Fellowship recently Legal Foundation, Nepal. She is now came to an end and she moved back to the acting country director and is part New York to work at the Bronx Defenders, of the only public defender office in the where she is a criminal defense attorney. country, dedicated to providing high- quality criminal defense representation to Sally Newman ’09 poor persons in all judicial proceedings Sally moved to Charleston, South from the time of arrest. In the three years Carolina, this spring to start a new job as that they have been in Nepal, through an Associate Attorney with the Southern Alina joined the faculty at NYU School of the representation of over 1,300 clients, Environmental Law Center. Her first case Law as an Assistant Professor of Clinical they have been instrumental in setting is suing Carnival Cruise Lines, which has Law, effective May 16, 2011. important legal precedents protecting been very controversial and exciting. She the rights of vulnerable people. Their also organized her high school’s 10-year Angelica Jongco ’05 approach includes providing lawyers with anniversary this summer, and officiated Since 2008, Angelica Jongco has been sustained mentorship and training from Kara Werner’s (another Root!) wedding to working at Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker international trial lawyers with expertise Morgan Janssen. & Jackson, P.C., an Oakland-based in public defense, who are selected for plaintiffs’ side civil rights and employment three-month tenures in their office on a Danielle (Rock) Thomas ’10 firm. In September 2010, she married volunteer basis. Susan was also thrilled Danielle was featured in an article in Daniel Hutchinson, also a plaintiffs’ side to offer such a fellowship to fellow Root the Huffington Post about her work at lawyer, whom she met in 2006 as a alumnus Liyah K. Brown ’04 for the Legal Services of Alabama (http://www. Law Fellow at Public Advocates in San summer of 2011. Liyah conducted several huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/15/gulf-oil- Francisco. They tied the knot in the Bay trainings for the lawyers, sharing her spill-some-workers-lost_n_849538.html). Area surrounded by family and friends extensive knowledge of forensic science. who traveled from as far as the

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honored Valerie Bogart ’82 on November November Bogart ’82 on Valerie honored New York Lawyers for the Public Interest the Public Interest for Lawyers York New her work for Advocacy Extraordinary Selfhelp Community Program, Resources Services, Inc. Services, as director of the Evelyn Frank Legal Frank of the Evelyn as director Valerie Bogart ’82 Bogart Valerie 17 with the Felix A. Fishman Award for for Award A. Fishman Felix 17 with the In an interview with an NYU alumni publication in 2008, Judge Michael reflected that in 2008, Judge Michael reflected alumni publication with an NYU In an interview the years. over program NYU and the RTK to significantly Judge Michael contributed thought who of people of the hundreds The thoughts missed. Judge Michael is sorely day. every and friend, who I miss mentor an extraordinary Michael was “Judge Judge Michael grew up on a farm in West in West up on a farm Judge Michael grew bring the DNC to Charlotte, meeting with meeting Charlotte, bring the DNC to President Obama as many as five times. as many as five Obama President Politico.com profiled Anthony Foxx ’96, the ’96, Foxx Anthony profiled Politico.com (http://www.politico. National Convention piece notes that Foxx lobbied hard to hard lobbied that Foxx notes piece mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina. His Carolina. North Charlotte, of mayor com/news/stories/0211/49115.html). The com/news/stories/0211/49115.html). city was chosen to host the Democratic host chosen to city was where he was student body president—and after NYU Law worked first in Manhattan first NYU Law worked after body president—and student he was where law in a practiced and later Office and at the U.S. Attorney’s & Cromwell at Sullivan in involved Michael became Virginia, West to his return After town. Virginia small West when Rockefeller to as special counselor years four serving for politics, Democratic U.S. Senator and the late Rockefeller for and managing campaigns governor, he was C. Byrd. Robert I thought that boy and as a young been a lawyer, had ever of farmers “no one in my family be very It turned out to job imaginable. exciting be the most would being a trial lawyer moments.” satisfying and rewarding although I had many work, hard He was mentor. as a terrific known NYU and was from many of his law clerks He hired the for 2009. Each spring in October Madison Lecture the prestigious deliver to selected and to students admitted speak on panels for to York New to he travelled 16 years, past he was and grace, tie, humility, bow panel. With his characteristic selection chair an RTK NYU. for recruiter and effective an enthusiastic and one Virginia, West also from ’07, RTK summed up by Jen Wagner are of him as family him: to as a law clerk served the Law School who later to “recruits” of Judge Michael’s in all that he did, and made and thoughtfulness kindness profound He demonstrated by Judge Michael led in his life. place had a special and important we like feel everyone on the and an eye detail, to attention a tremendous humor, gentleness, with example, me the technical taught not only of any decision he made. He implications long-term of the law, think about the complexities to writing, but also how concise skills of clear, society.” just a more toward day every strive and to lawyering, On March 25, 2011, the Root-Tilden-Kern community community Root-Tilden-Kern the 2011, 25, March On alumnus when Judge M. Blane Michael a beloved lost the Fourth ’68, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for He with cancer. a battle after away passed Circuit, summed is well legacy 68. Judge Michael’s was in his “Unvarnished Rockefeller, Jay up by Senator in in his humor and unequaled uncanny honesty, on presence a formidable Blane was his humility, and intellectual bench, with a moral the federal justice.” for hard set compass University— Virginia West from graduated Virginia, Judge M. Blane Michael ’68 Blane Michael Judge M. Remembered Anthony Foxx ’96 Foxx Anthony

Schwartz has 25 years of senior 25 years has Schwartz Alexander was previously the 45th previously was Alexander was the school’s first practitioner-in- first the school’s was for many years as a visiting lecturer as a visiting lecturer many years for for Population, Refugees, and Migration in and Migration Refugees, Population, for from Tennessee and conference chair and conference Tennessee from inspires a parkway inspires is named dean atis named U.S. Secretary of Education from 1991 from of Education U.S. Secretary the U.S. Department of State, was named was of State, the U.S. Department to 1993 under President George H. W. George 1993 under President to Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School and Woodrow Princeton’s Department, the National SecurityDepartment, the National Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He School of Public Affairs. Humphrey Eric Schwartz ’85, an assistant secretary secretary ’85, an assistant Eric Schwartz Bush, and candidate for the Republican the Republican for Bush, and candidate residence. public service experience at the State experience public service presidential nomination in 1996 and 2000. nomination in 1996 and presidential Council, the United Nations, and the U.S. Nations, and the Council, the United as in the foundation as well Congress, Lamar Alexander ’65 Lamar Alexander Eric P. Schwartz ’85Eric P. Schwartz of Minnesota University governor of Tennessee from 1979 to 1987, to 1979 from of Tennessee governor and NGO communities. Schwartz served Schwartz communities. and NGO a dean of the University of Minnesota a dean of the University a portion of Route 321 the Lamar a portion of Route started the new job in October. job in October. the new started of public and international affairs at affairs of public and international of the Republican Party, by renaming by renaming Party, of the Republican Alexander Parkway. Alexander Alexander ’65, the senior U.S. senator ’65, Alexander

Tennessee residents honored Lamar honored residents Tennessee Honors Program Contributions Class of 1965 Class of 1970 Total Class Donors: 7 Total Class Donors: 7 Total Class Size: 17 Total Class Size: 22 Root-Tilden-Kern Total Giving: $57,000 Total Giving: $17,650 Participation Rate of Giving: 41% Participation Rate of Giving: 32% Thomas E. Colleton Jr. Francis J. Blanchfield ’70 Honor Roll of Donors Dean Richard Edstrom ’65 (LL.M.’74) (LL.M.’66) Anthony Castanares John J. McGraw Bruce J. Lurie to New York University David G. Miller Michael D. Martin Abraham D. Sofaer Frederick A. Richman Paul J. Tagliabue Michael Trucano School of Law Matthew S. Watson Frederick M. Van Hecke

We would like to thank the alumni and friends listed Class of 1966 Class of 1971 Total Class Donors: 10 Total Class Donors: 8 below who gave this year to NYU School of Law. Total Class Size: 24 Total Class Size: 17 Total Giving: $77,300 Total Giving: $31,465 Participation Rate of Giving: 42% Participation Rate of Giving: 47% Class of 1954 Class of 1958 Arthur W. Rashap ’61 (LL.M.’62) Frank R. Ciesla Jr. Robert E. Shields Total Class Donors: 6 Total Class Donors: 5 Gerald K. Smith Robert B. Cordle Mark S. Geston Total Class Size: 8 Total Class Size: 13 Michael H. Testa ’61 (LL.M.’67) Roger S. Fine Kazimierz J. Herchold Total Giving: $79,478 Total Giving: $6,950 William J. Williams Jr. William H. Goebel Jeffrey L. Kestler Participation Rate of Giving: 75% Participation Rate of Giving: 38% Thomas C. Morrison Nolan C. Leake Robert V. Abendroth Edward W. Beglin Jr. Class of 1962 Robert D. Nelson Douglas D. McFarland Jr. L. Stewart Bohan John L. Hargrove Total Class Donors: 9 Lee T. Quaintance Jeffrey T. Pero Benjamin F. Crane Donal Aengus Kinney Total Class Size: 17 Ron L. Quigley Albert A. Riederer Howard L. Greenberger Harlan W. Murray Total Giving: $9,440 Gary L. Wood Irving Novick Thomas S. Schrock Participation Rate of Giving: 53% Harry A. Woods Jr. Class of 1972 Herbert M. Wachtell Robert B. Barnhouse Total Class Donors: 7 Class of 1959 Charles Clifford Brown Class of 1967 Total Class Size: 26 Class of 1955 Total Class Donors: 6 William E. Donovan Total Class Donors: 6 Total Giving: $23,600 Total Class Donors: 9 Total Class Size: 15 Solomon “Sonny” Kamm Total Class Size: 17 Participation Rate of Giving: 27% Total Class Size: 12 Total Giving: $36,542 Manuel S. Klausner ’62 Total Giving: $45,200 Charles A. Citrin Total Giving: $118,750 Participation Rate of Giving: 40% (LL.M.’63) Participation Rate of Giving: 35% Edward B. Cloues, II Participation Rate of Giving: 75% Murray H. Bring Charles Delos Putz Jr. Thomas R. Brome Dennis A. Estis Robert R. Eidsmoe Wesley E. Forte ’59 (LL.M.’65) Reginald Stanton Jerome L. Getz John D. Grad Donald H. Gillis Joe B. Munk Vernon E. Vig ’62 (LL.M.’63) John G. Hoeschler Michael W. Grainey Anthony J. Iannarone ’55 Robert A. Small Richard C. Warmer Irvin A. Leonard Erica Steinberger McLean (LL.M.’66) William C. Sterling Jr. Griffith B. Price Jr. Lawrence B. Pedowitz B. Thomas Leahy J. Ronald Wolfe Class of 1963 Robert E. Shields Martin Lipton Total Class Donors: 8 Class of 1973 Gerald E. Matzke Class of 1960 Total Class Size: 16 Class of 1968 Total Class Donors: 10 John Campbell Richardson Total Class Donors: 12 Total Giving: $12,650 Total Class Donors: 12 Total Class Size: 22 David T. Washburn Total Class Size: 22 Participation Rate of Giving: 50% Total Class Size: 18 Total Giving: $26,500 Kimon S. Zachos Total Giving: $108,850 Anthony C. Gooch ’63 (LL.M.’64) Total Giving: $61,700 Participation Rate of Giving: 45% Participation Rate of Giving: 55% Charles D. Gray, III Participation Rate of Giving: 67% Richard H. Blaker ’73 (LL.M.’82) Class of 1956 John E. Blyth John M. Greaney Frank M. Aiello Eugene S. Boggia Total Class Donors: 8 Thomas Buergenthal The Honorable Burt S. Pines Thomas L. Brejcha Jr. James P. Clark Total Class Size: 9 James Gooden Exum Jr. Richard H. Robinson Jr. Frank E. Catalina Arthur B. Culvahouse Jr. Total Giving: $59,090 Floyd F. Feeney Roger W. Thomas ’63 (LL.M.’64) Roy C. Cobb Jr. Joseph A. Dickinson Participation Rate of Giving: 89% Dawnald R. Henderson Dennis P. Thompson Charles T.C. Compton Steven L. Edwards Steve Charles Dune Robert A. Jacobs ’60 (LL.M.’63) Edward J. Wynne Jr. Terrence R. Connelly G. Howden Fraser Donald T. Fox Jerome H. Kern Robert L. Henn Janet C. Hall Bernard G. Heinzen Edward N. Lange Class of 1964 John W. Luhtala John G. Lientz Herbert D. Kelleher Gordon Albert Martin Jr. Total Class Donors: 10 M. Blane Michael David R. Schaefer Stephen Frank Lichtenstein Richard H. Pierce Total Class Size: 19 Daniel R. Paladino R. Philip Steinberg N. Gregory Taylor Total Giving: $39,500 John P. Scotellaro Class of 1974 J. Kenneth Townsend Jr. Benjamin Vinar Participation Rate of Giving: 53% John P. Warnock Total Class Donors: 11 Paul A. Wescott Croil J. Anderson Total Class Size: 23 Class of 1961 Edward J. Costello Jr. Class of 1969 Total Giving: $9,450 Class of 1957 Total Class Donors: 12 Richard John Cummins ’64 Total Class Donors: 7 Participation Rate of Giving: 48% Total Class Donors: 6 Total Class Size: 16 (LL.M.’66) Total Class Size: 19 Holly Hartstone Total Class Size: 11 Total Giving: $305,018 John F. Dealy Total Giving: $30,029 Lynette Labinger Total Giving: $27,400 Participation Rate of Giving: 75% Peter Dix Devers Participation Rate of Giving: 37% Beth J. Lief Participation Rate of Giving: 55% Burck Bailey Douglas S. Liebhafsky Ronald J. Bettauer Charles R. Lucy David M. Clark Donald W. Brodie Ray A. Mantle David O. Bickart Janet M. Meiburger ’74 (LL.M.’77) Donald H. Elliott Allan Gunn Robert L. Podvey Jerome L. Coben Richard E. O’Connell ’74 Wayne R. Hannah Jr. Roland L. Hjorth Robert Edgar Rose Michael Fitzpatrick (LL.M.’82) John W. McWhirter Jr. Edward J. McAniff Edwin D. Williamson F. Patrick Hubbard Edward J. Pluimer Stewart Glasson Pollock John B. Power James E. Kee Dennis P. Riordan Willard I. Zucker John R. Price C. Jeffrey Thompson Edward N. Robinson John E. Raper Jr. Stephen T. Rodd Jeffrey M. Weissman RTK News Fall 2011 21

Satterthwaite Satterthwaite Participation Rate of Giving: 7% Rate Participation Participation Rate of Giving: 40% Rate Participation Neitz Benedetto Michele Michael D. Sant’Ambrogio of Giving: 8% Rate Participation Participation Rate of Giving: 16% Rate Participation L. Grosz Maya Lockwood Margaret of Giving: 11% Rate Participation Light Lynn Michelle Participation Rate of Giving: 25% Rate Participation Dionne R. Gonder Stanley Risa E. Kaufman iving: 56% of G Rate Participation Chen Davina T. Epin H. Christensen Sabrina G. Comizzoli Philip G. Gallagher Nina R. Morrison Masiel Rodriquez-Vars Class of 2003 Class Class of 2001 Class of 2002 Class Class of 1999 Class of 2000 Class Class of 1997 Class of 1998 Class Perez Ivan C. Lenore Anderson C. Lenore Aken Van Christine Avi J. Lipman Avi Arlo M. Chase Arlo Anne R.K. Reader Total Class Donors: 1 Donors: Class Total Size: 14 Class Total Giving: $20 Total Total Class Donors: 6 Donors: Class Total Size: 15 Class Total Giving: $960 Total Gardner Tiffany Adams Ragone Tara 1 Donors: Class Total Size: 12 Class Total Giving: $300 Total Total Class Donors: 4 Donors: Class Total Size: 25 Class Total Giving: $2,250 Total 2 Donors: Class Total Size: 19 Class Total Giving: $1,250 Total Total Class Donors: 3 Donors: Class Total Size: 12 Class Total Giving: $450 Total Burton A. Cisneros Teresa 10 Donors: Class Total Size: 18 Class Total Giving: $6,160 Total A. Maroney Terry arcus Marcus Ellen Jessica Jennifer Rachel Simon Rachel Jennifer cAllister-Nevins McAllister-Nevins Jennifer Jonathan D. Springer Widney Brown Brown Widney Participation Rate of Giving: 27% Rate Participation M. Wade Kimberly of Giving: 64% Rate Participation Baher A. Azmy J. Dupuis Laurence Katherine M. Menendez Steinglass David Ehrenfest Participation Rate of Giving: 10% Rate Participation C. Collins Kathleen of Giving: 62% Rate Participation David Brian Cruz Mary Haviland David M. Levin M. Malveaux Suzette Participation Rate of Giving: 58% Rate Participation Daniel N. Abrahamson Betty Bales Lori L. Shellenberger iving: 43% of G Rate Participation Megan R. Golden Mark A. Izeman Rosemarie Hidalgo-McCabe Michael A. Sarbanes Class of 1995 Class of 1996 Class Class of 1993 Class of 1994 Class Class of 1991 Class of 1992 Class Christopher J. Meade Christopher Virgil O. Wiebe Virgil Arthur A. Krantz Nadine C. Abrahams Abigail Trillin Abigail Trillin Anthony R. Foxx Alma M. Gomez SchuchmanAbraham Total Class Donors: 3 Donors: Class Total Size: 11 Class Total Giving: $350 Total 7 Donors: Class Total Size: 11 Class Total Giving: $14,550 Total Total Class Donors: 1 Donors: Class Total Size: 10 Class Total Giving: $110 Total 8 Donors: Class Total Size: 13 Class Total Giving: $6,125 Total E. Coke Tanya Edelman Eric Todd Total Class Donors: 7 Donors: Class Total Size: 12 Class Total Giving: $7,370 Total Lin Tana 6 Donors: Class Total Size: 14 Class Total Giving: $1,236 Total Jenny R. Yang Jenny R. Yang allop Gallop Jennifer Joseph Z. Scantlebury William W. Carter William W. Participation Rate of Giving: 20% Rate Participation Barbur T. Peter Ronald B. McGuire of Giving: 25% Rate Participation CooperElizabeth Barbara Wise GoodmanStephen Anne Leidholdt Dorchen of Giving: 31% Rate Participation J. Shields Eileen of Giving: 38% Rate Participation Lisa M. Colautti Hewitt Patricia D. Brian King Participation Rate of Giving: 18% Rate Participation Susan Cary Cockfield Participation Rate of Giving: 47% Rate Participation Eisner Weinstein Laurel Eric S. Koenig A. Silver Edward iving: 22% of G Rate Participation Lisa E. Davis Class of 1987 Class of 1988 Class of 1989 Class of 1990 Class Class of 1986 Class Class of 1984 Class of 1985 Class reen LaCheen Green Caroline N. Lerner Carolyn R. Levine Craig Constance Lamay Rice Lamay Rice Constance Cinthia H. Schuman

Allan P. Haber Allan P. Total Class Donors: 3 Donors: Class Total Size: 15 Class Total Giving: $15,350 Total Timothy R. Lyman 4 Donors: Class Total Size: 16 Class Total Giving: $1,100 Total 4 Donors: Class Total Size: 13 Class Total Giving: $650 Total A. Amato Theresa 5 Donors: Class Total Size: 13 Class Total Giving: $15,325 Total Total Class Donors: 2 Donors: Class Total Size: 11 Class Total Giving: $12,500 Total Total Class Donors: 7 Donors: Class Total Size: 15 Class Total Giving: $7,500 Total 4 Donors: Class Total Size: 18 Class Total Giving: $900 Total Jeremy D. Ben-Ami Jeremy James E. Hough albanJohn Joseph G Janet E. Sabel Julie Simone Brill James G. Steiker Wendy Gerber Wendy William S. Bernstein William S. Bernstein Peter M. Koneazny Peter Participation Rate of Giving: 45% Rate Participation Participation Rate of Giving: 29% Rate Participation Blair G. Brown DeBuono Laureen Ronald A. Eisenberg Nancy B. Morawetz L. Pace Paula R. Pitegoff Peter Participation Rate of Giving: 22% Rate Participation A. Davis Florence Kenneth L. Henderson D. Hendrickson Kathleen iving: 36% of G Rate Participation Collins Michael W. Elaine E. Fink J. Freedman Karen Groudine V. Beverly Heidi Jo Noun Martha J. Olson Harry G. Prince David L. Sugerman Participation Rate of Giving: 31% Rate Participation CandeeHamilton Diana Louise DeGette A. EllisDeborah Robert R. Henak G. Koenigsberg Roberta Leary Shawn P. J. Schachter Madeleine Susan J. Sutherland Class of 1982 Class Class of 1981 Class Class of 1979 Class of 1980 Class Class of 1983 Class cAliley Chris Marie McAliley Charles W. Leer Jr. Jr. Leer W. Charles Christopher E. Austin Christopher Vicki L. Been Valerie J. Bogart Valerie Total Class Donors: 9 Donors: Class Total Size: 20 Class Total Giving: $28,400 Total Total Class Donors: 6 Donors: Class Total Size: 21 Class Total Giving: $6,300 Total Total Class Donors: 4 Donors: Class Total Size: 18 Class Total Giving: $17,400 Total 10 Donors: Class Total Size: 28 Class Total Giving: $30,248 Total Timothy J. Lindon Thomas L. Riesenberg Total Class Donors: 8 Donors: Class Total Size: 26 Class Total Giving: $31,150 Total aleon Janet L. Zaleon itchell-Edwards A. Mitchell-Edwards Jacquelyn Barry A. Weprin Barry A. Weprin B. Zimmerman Lloyd Barbara Allan ShickichBarbara ichel P. Florio Florio Michel P. Fung Margaret Michael B. Gerrard Rodd A. Hamman Ellen M. Barry Ellen Participation Rate of Giving: 55% Rate Participation D. Scott Wise D. Scott Participation Rate of Giving: 45% Rate Participation David G. Adams Neil B. Cohen G. Green Lawrence Kozlov Herbert F. . Raisler Kenneth M. Raisler Shtasel Sana Flanders ’76 (LL.M.’77) M. Univer Scott Ron M. Neumann Ralph A. Peeples iving: 59% of G Rate Participation Eager Carter Mary Claire David N. Hofstein Robert G. Johnson Johnson Hanneken Sandra Participation Rate of Giving: 38% Rate Participation Bernard P. Richard Philip L. Douglas Ronald Louis Ellis G. Emerson Steven Susan M. Freeman II ’75 (LL. M.’79) G. Kepple, Lloyd Karl K. Kindig David L. Knudson Class of 1978 Class Class of 1977 Class Class of 1976 Class Class of 1975 Class Carolyn Licata Simpson Licata Carolyn Claire M. Lipschultz Claire Armond D. Budish erhardstein Alphonse A. Gerhardstein Thomas P. Battistoni Battistoni Thomas P. Total Class Donors: 12 Donors: Class Total Size: 22 Class Total Giving: $12,235 Total Timothy G. O’Connor Total Class Donors: 9 Donors: Class Total Size: 20 Class Total Giving: $92,850 Total Twila L. Perry Twila Total Class Donors: 13 Donors: Class Total Size: 22 Class Total Giving: $291,300 Total Total Class Donors: 8 Donors: Class Total Size: 21 Class Total Giving: $13,300 Total Joseph E. Shickich Jr. Joseph E. Shickich Jr. Judith LaBelle Judith LaBelle Jake Arbes Jake John J. Regan James C. McMillin Class of 2004 Class of 2009 Total Class Donors: 5 Total Class Donors: 6 Non Root-Tilden-Kern Total Class Size: 12 Total Class Size: 17 Total Giving: $1,420 Total Giving: $250 Participation Rate of Giving: 42% Participation Rate of Giving: 35% Alumni and Friends Giving Liyah K. Brown Russell Curtiss Crane Alexander M. Fong Katherine L. Evans September 2010–August 2011 Kati L. Griffith Sara L. Johnson Gina Schachter Anderson ’80 Hobson Charitable Lead Richard L. Revesz Kathleen Guneratne Ian Marcus Amelkin Paul J. Appelbaum ’98 Annuity Trust Cynthea L. Riesenberg ’81 Anika Singh Lemar Katherine M. Mastman Maite Aquino ’94 Sarah B. Holladay ’05 Emilia Rodriguez ’84 Margarita K. O’Donnell Bernadette Armand ’03 Paul Michael Holland ’91 Daniel P. Rogan ’96 Class of 2005 Hanora A. Bellucco ’97 Matthew Howard ’04 Alice M. Sandler Total Class Donors: 7 Class of 2010 Sean O. Burton ’97 Kil Huh Ellen Schall ’72 Total Class Size: 15 Total Class Donors: 9 Jeffrey J. Chapman ’98 Carol Gottuso Jaenicke ’72 Heidi J. Segal ’93 Total Giving: $690 Total Class Size: 19 Scott Hu Christensen ’97 Andrew E. Kantra ’86 Penny Shane ’88 Participation Rate of Giving: 47% Total Giving: $3,516 Gail E. Cornwall ’05 Peter Kaplan ’67 Steven E. Shiffman ’91 Ivan E. Espinoza-Madrigal Participation Rate of Giving: 47% Kimberly M. Doley ’08 Steven Kelban Alan J. Sinsheimer ’81 Matthew J. Ginsburg Joanna N. Edwards Robert C. Eager Phyllis J. Kessler ’72 Alden B. Smith Miranda B. Johnson Angela M. Gius Deborah L. Evangelakos ’85 Nancy L. Kiefer ’92 Miriam R. Spiro ’95 Angelica K. Jongco Carmen G. Iguina John Evangelakos ’85 Eric M. Krautheimer (LL.M. ’94) David A. Stagliano ’80 Mina A. Kim Keren G. Raz Nina P. Freedman Barbara C. Kullen Melissa Kaftarian Strecker ’97 Nicolas M. King Julia W. Sheketoff Heather E. Fuentes ’07 Bradford S. Lander Paul Strecker ’97 Sonja Shield Rebecca S. Talbott Seth R. Gassman ’03 JooYeon Lee ’07 Hendrik J. ter Kuile (LL.M. ’10) Kara J. Werner Narendra K. Ghosh ’05 Charles J. Macellaro ’59 Roger E. Weisberg Class of 2006 Nathan F. Wessler Michele Lew Gibbons ’98 John P. Mead ’77 Frederick W. Wertheim ’87 Total Class Donors: 3 Sara Anne Zier Eric A. Goldstein (LL.M. ’80) David Mehretu ’06 Kim-Pok Wong ’82 Total Class Size: 12 Adrienne L. Halpern ’80 Ronald Millet ’90 Karen M. Yost ’74 (LL.M. ’82) Total Giving: $5,850 Class of 2011 Brian E. Hamilton ’98 Peter G. Neiman ’91 Jane Zimmy Participation Rate of Giving: 25% Total Class Donors: 13 Katherine H. Hanson Robert Booth Opatrny ’81 Adam J. Heintz Total Class Size: 18 David B. Harms ’84 Kevin Osowski ’10 Anne M. Lai Total Giving: $753 Amber L. Haywood ’08 Richard A. Pollack ’88 Susan S. Lee Participation Rate of Giving: 72% Elizabeth O. Ashamu Class of 2007 Matthew R. Baca Total Class Donors: 3 Betty B. Baez-Melo Total Class Size: 12 Noam K. Biale Total Giving: $3,100 Elizabeth Happel Participation Rate of Giving: 25% Stephen B. Kang Rose A. Cahn Marne L. Lenox Invest in future Marcia DelRios Ruben Loyo Carlos L. Siso Linnea L. Nelson Erin A. Scharff Class of 2008 Emerson J. Sykes RTK Scholars. Total Class Donors: 7 Kosha S. Tucker Total Class Size: 16 Mark A. Weiner Continue the cycle of giving. Total Giving: $1,650 Participation Rate of Giving: 44% Grand Total: 411 Donate online at: www.law.nyu.edu/giving Mitra Ebadolahi or send a check made payable Susan Carrie Johnson Randi H. Levine to NYU School of Law, Sonia R. Lin Holly G. McIntush Root-Tilden-Kern Annual Fund to: A. Tafadzwa Pasipanodya New York University School of Law Diana S. Reddy Office of Development 110 West Third Street, Second Floor New York, NY 10012-1003 ! o NYU o t g i ve RTK News Fall 2011 23

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