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Talk to a Current Student

A group of current BU Law students, known as the Student Admissions Ambassadors, volunteer each year to serve as an information resource for prospective students. Our Ambassadors have a wide variety of interests and are engaged in many activities here at BU Law. Prospective students can email the Ambassadors if they have specific questions or just want to learn about life at BU Law from a student perspective.

If you have questions related to admissions or the application process, then please contact the BU Law Admissions Office at bulawadm@bu.edu or 617.353.3100.

Student Admissions Ambassadors

Name: E. Peter Alvarez
Year: Class of 2014
Email:  alvareel@gmail.com
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Boston College / 2006 / English
Hometown: Dorchester, MA
BU Law Activities: Black Law Students Association (External Vice President); Latin American Law Students Association; 2L Representative for Student Government Association

Name: Brian Balduzzi
Year: Class of 2013
Email:  bbalduzz@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: SUNY Geneseo / 2009 / English & Secondary Education, Theatre minor
Hometown: Oswego, NY
BU Law Activities: Public Interest Project (Co-President 2012-2013); Boston University Public Interest Law Journal; Research Assistant; Civil Litigation Clinic; Moot Court; OutLaw; Family Law Association (Treasurer 2012-2013); American Constitutional Society (Executive Member 2012 - 2013); Client Counseling Competition; Transactional Negotiation Competition; Negotiation Competition; Student Affairs (Affinity Orientation - Co-Director, Student Advisor Program); Latin American Law Students Association; Pro Bono Project; Tax LLM program

Name: Amy Baral
Year: Class of 2014
Email:  ajbaral@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Boston University / 2011 / BA and MA in Political Science
Hometown: West Hartford, CT
BU Law Activities: Boston University Law Review; Education Law Association (Co-President); Public Interest Project (2L CDO/Alumni Liaison, 1L Representative); Student Advisor; Roosevelt Institute Education Policy Fellow (2011-2012); Pro Bono Spring Break - Detroit (Spring 2012); Rappaport Fellowship in Law & Public Policy (Summer 2012); Government Lawyering Externship - U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (Fall 2012); Judicial Externship Program - U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts (Spring 2013).

Name: Nichole Alcántara Beiner
Year: Class of 2015
Email:  nabeiner@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Williams College / 2009 / English and Latino/a Studies
Hometown: Hopewell Junction, NY and Brooklyn, NY
BU Law Activities: Black Law Students Association (Co-President); Latin American Law Students Association; Public Interest Scholar; Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial

Name: Diva Bole
Year: Class of 2014
Email:  diva@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: George Washington University / 2011 / International Politics and Political Science
Hometown: Elkton, MD / Newark, DE
BU Law Activities: Boston University Law Review (Senior Note Development Editor); Middle Eastern / South Asian Law Students Organization (1st Year Section Rep and Secretary); Be Yourself Volunteer; Legislative Clinic

Name: Corbin Carter
Year: Class of 2015
Email: carterjc@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: University of Oklahoma / 2012 / Political Science and History
Hometown: Edmond, OK
BU Law Activities: BU Law Orientation Welcomer (Co-Director); Public Interest Project (Community Service Chair); OutLaw (Treasurer); American Constitution Society (Secretary); BU Law Government Lawyering Externship Program (Fall 2013); Pro Bono Spring Break Volunteer

Name: Amber Charles
Year: Class of 2013
Email: amberc10@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: University of Georgia - Athens / 2006 / Political Science
Hometown: Chapel Hill, NC
BU Law Activities: Public Interest Scholar; Boston University Law Review (Article Editor); Faculty Selection Committee; Public Interest Project (Auction co-Chair); Law School Tour Guide; Judicial Externship Program - First Circuit Court of Appeals; Wrongful Convictions Clinic; Student Advisor; Stone Moot Court

Name: Byron Conway
Year: Class of 2013
Email:  blconway@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: University of Michigan / 2010 / Political Science and Afro-American Studies
Hometown: Detroit, MI
BU Law Activities: Black Law student Association (President); Outlaw; BU Criminal Law Clinic

Name: Gaspard Curioni
Year: Class of 2013
Email: gcurioni@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Sciences Po Paris / 2005 / International Relations
Hometown: Aix-en-Provence, France / Bethesda, MD
BU Law Activities: Boston University Law Review; OutLaw; Middle Eastern / South Asian Law Student Association

Name: Juliaana DiGesu
Year: Class of 2015
Email: jdigesu@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: University of Rochester / 2012 / International Relations
Hometown: Stratham, New Hampshire
BU Law Activities: Women's Law Association, International Law Society, Student Advisor (Co-Director), Student Welcomer, Research Assistant, International Human Rights Clinic, Tour Guide

Name: Josh Fairchild
Year: Class of 2013
Email: joshuaf@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Oklahoma State University / 2005 / Political Science
Hometown: Oklahoma City, OK
BU Law Activities: President of OWLS (Older Wiser Law Students); Native American Law Student Association (Vice President);· Student rep on the Faculty Council JD Committee; 2010 Negotiation Competition (finalist); 2011 Client Counseling Competition (finalist); represented BU in the American Constitution Society Moot Court Competition; pro bono work for Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice; working part time for an in-house corporate legal department.

Name: Margot Gendreau
Year: Class of 2013
Email: gendreau@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Indiana University, Bloomington / 2007 / History and Musical Theatre, minor in French
Hometown: NYC
BU Law Activities: American Journal of Law and Medicine (Managing Editor); Criminal Clinic; OutLaw; Stone Moot Court Competition; Tour Guide; 1L Student Advisor; Public Interest Project; American Constitutional Society

Name: Peter Grupp
Year: Class of 2015
Email: pagrupp@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: SUNY Buffalo / 2012 / Political Science and Environmental Studies, minor in Geography
Hometown: Buffalo, NY
BU Law Activities: Energy and Environmental Law Society (Secretary); Public Interest Project Grant Recipient; Affordable Housing Externship

Name: Alexandria Gutierrez
Year: Class of 2013
Email: agutie@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Northwestern University / 2008 / Political Science & Legal Studies
Hometown: Ann Arbor, MI
BU Law Activities: Public Interest Scholar; Women's Law Association (President); Latin American Law Students Association; Jewish Law Students Association; Public Interest Law Journal (Submissions Editor); Semester-in-Practice Participant; Faculty Selection Committee; Research Assistant

Name: Chelsea Johnson
Year: Class of 2013
Email:  camjohns@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: University of Chicago / 2010 / African-American Studies
Hometown: Normal, IL
BU Law Activities: Black Law Students Association (Secretary); Student Advisor; BU Law Food and Wine Club (Secretary); Civil Litigation Clinic, Housing, Employment, Family and Disability; NEBLSA Mock Trial Director

Name: Meera Kamath
Year: Class of 2013
Email:  mkamath@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Washington University in St. Louis / 2008 / Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology
Hometown: Boca Raton, FL
BU Law Activities: Middle Eastern / South Asian Law Student Association (President, 2011-12); Moot Court (Edward C. Stone Competition, Homer Albers Prize Competition, and J. Newton Esdaile Appellate Moot Court Director); Intellectual Property Law Society; Legal Externship Program

Name: Brian Lin
Year: Class of 2013
Email: bclin@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Georgetown University / 2010 / Biology and History
Hometown: Hockessin, Delaware
BU Law Activities: Stone Moot Court; Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (Treasurer)

Name: Sam Maurer
Year: Class of 2015
Email:  samaurer@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: SUNY Geneseo / 2012 / History
Hometown: Bardonia, NY
BU Law Activities: Public Interest Project; Women's Law Association; Writing Fellow

Name: Frank Ren
Year: Class of 2014
Email: fren@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Boston University / 2011 / Economics and Political Science
Hometown: Lexington, MA
BU Law Activities: Asian-Pacific American Law Students Association; Student Welcomer; Moot Court; Boston University Law Review

Name: Matthew Saldana
Year: Class of 2013
Email: msaldana@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / 2006 / Latin American Studies
Hometown: LaGrange Park, IL
BU Law Activities: Review of Banking & Financial Law (Editor-in-Chief); 2011 Client Counseling Competition (regional delegate); Competitions Program (co-director, client counseling and negotiation); Latin American Law Students Association; BU Law Pro Bono trip to New Orleans; Writing Fellow; 1L Student Advisor; Research Assistant

Name: Yareni Sanchez
Year: Class of 2015
Email: ysanchez@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Columbia University / 2009 / History and Hispanic Studies
Hometown: New York, NY
BU Law Activities: Latin American Law Students Association (External Vice President, 1L Section Representative); Black Law Students Association (Regional Representative, 1L Section Representative); Public Interest Project

Name: Jared Shwartz
Year: Class of 2014
Email:  jshwartz@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Emory University / 2008 / Middle East Studies and Political Science
Hometown: Peabody, MA
BU Law Activities: Student Government Association (Treasurer, 1L Representative); Student Life Committee; Student Interviewer - Faculty Appointments Committee; Health Law Externship Program; Jewish Law Students Association (Treasurer)

Name: Peter Sumners
Year: Class of 2014
Email: psumners@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Drury University / 2011 / History & Political Science
Hometown: Springfield, MO
BU Law Activities: American Constitution Society; Student Animal Legal Defense Fund; Law Democrats; Public Interest Project

Name: Laila Tafreshi
Year: Class of 2014
Email: tafreshi@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: University of San Diego / 2009 / Business Administration
Hometown: Calabasas, CA (near Los Angeles)
BU Law Activities: Public Interest Law Journal (Note Editor); Education and Law Association; 1L Student Advisor; Judicial Externship Program (District Court of Massachusetts); 2L Moot Court (Stone and Albers Competitions); Gibbons National Criminal Procedure Moot Court Competition (3L year)

Name: Greg Whitten
Year: Class of 2014
Email: gwhitten@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Emory University / 2009 / Political Science
Hometown: Cherry Hill, NJ
BU Law Activities: Journal of Science and Technology Law; Student Welcomer (Co-Director); Education Law Association (Treasurer, 1L Representative); Pro Bono Spring Break participant; Constitution in the Classroom; Civil Litigation Housing, Employment, Family and Disability Clinic at Greater Boston Legal Services

Name: Cong Yao
Year: Class of 2014
Email: congyao@bu.edu
Undergraduate School / Year / Major: Tsinghua University / 2005 / Biology
Hometown: Xi'an, China
BU Law Activities: American Journal of Law and Medicine; Research Assistant; IP Law Society; China Law Society