The Record: Tell us about your background?

I grew up in Norfolk, Massachusetts, and graduated from Georgetown University in 2017, where I studied political science and Spanish.

What made you want to go to law school?

I realized that I wanted to attend law school through several formative work experiences. First, when I interned for the Women’s Bureau in the US Department of Labor, I discovered the inadequacy of current laws designed to protect women in the workplace. Then, after interning in Congress, I went to CBS News’ investigative unit, where I worked on a nightly news story about rape kit backlogs across the country. It horrified me to find how many untested rape kits had collected dust for decades while survivors waited for justice.

From there I decided to work in politics because I wanted to help elect leaders who would address these issues. I spent the past few years as a political consultant, helping campaigns, organizations, and businesses meet their campaign and public policy goals. I worked with various attorney general campaigns and learned about their critical role in the justice system and how they can affect change. I wanted to be able to contribute to that change and advocate for underrepresented people, so I applied to law school.

Is there a particular area of law that you’re most interested in right now?

I’m interested in many fields of law, ranging from business litigation to employment law to family law. No matter which field I ultimately choose, I know that I want to devote at least part of my time to advocating for vulnerable women and survivors of abuse.

What made you want to attend BU Law?

BU’s financial aid, employment outcomes, and location were the biggest factors in my decision. I hope to practice in the Boston area, so I thought that BU would be a great place to form local connections.

Do you have any goals for your first year of law school?

I’d like to emerge from my first year with a good, foundational understanding of the various areas of law that I’ll be studying so I can decide on the path I want to pursue.

What do you do to relax?

I have a big sweet tooth, so I like to bake a lot. I once made mini oreo cheesecakes with homemade chocolate mousse. Before COVID-19, I enjoyed trying different restaurants. I am looking forward to trying more in Boston when it is safer!

The Record: Tell us about your background?

I grew up in a small town in the Poconos in Pennsylvania, although I was born in Minneapolis and we moved around a lot before settling down here. I went to UPenn for college and then stayed in Philadelphia to teach and do a master’s in education.

I spent four years in Philly public schools teaching high school science, specifically biology. I also coached mock trial and advised some science fair projects, and I really loved it. Then this past year, I moved to New York to work for a science education nonprofit organization while I was applying to law school.

What made you want to go to law school?

I’ve had an inkling that I’d like to be a lawyer since I was a kid. I’ve always really liked reading and English was always a favorite subject of mine. I like the way that you can use facts to build coherent arguments, and I like having discussions with people about their opinions and what they’re basing those opinions on. I think science ties in a lot of the reasoning skills that lawyers are so dependent on and use in everyday practice, and I like the fact that lawyering takes those scientific reasoning skills and applies them to humanities. I feel like law school was the logical next step, where I could take all of these things that I’ve done over the years and channel those skills and energies into a single thing.

What made you want to attend BU Law?

It’s funny, because I’m not in Boston now, but my brother lived in the city for a couple of years and every time I visited, I loved the food. Coming from Philly, which I love as a food city, I thought that Boston would be a fun food city to explore next.

Do you have any goals for your first year of law school, or is there a thing that you are most excited about?

I think just staying organized and trying to be proactive about asking clarifying questions. I tend to be a little bit more introverted, so finding ways to step outside my box is important to me. I’d also like to make some friends and find a study group that I can work with in my section.

What do you do to relax? Do you have any hobbies?

This summer, I’ve been vegetable gardening with my mom. We have some butternut squashes that are like the last of the things to come up, and we had tons of tomatoes and cucumbers. I also like hanging out with my cats. We have an adult cat named Mito—short for mitochondria, since she was so full of energy as a kitten. And then we just adopted two new kittens.

The Record: Tell us about your background?

I am a Boston-area native—I grew up in Cambridge and Arlington, Massachusetts. I went to Northeastern University and studied political science and business administration, concentrating in entrepreneurship, and minoring in international affairs.

After graduation, I worked for a year at the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC), helping administer grant programs in support of clean energy startups. After that, I worked for the US Peace Corps in Tanzania on a range of community projects focused on economic development, sustainable agriculture, and food security.

What made you want to go to law school?

I am extremely concerned about climate change. I had my first foray into environmental affairs as an undergraduate when I worked for a minister for environment in the UK Parliament while studying public policy as a Hansard Scholar at the London School of Economics. Since then, I’ve engaged with environmental issues at Northeastern, at MassCEC, and in the Peace Corps. I hope to use a law degree to work with clean energy startups—and businesses in general—that are trying to create a better, cleaner future.

What made you want to attend BU Law?

From the start, I was interested in returning to Boston. I’m drawn to Boston’s thriving entrepreneurship ecosystem. Also, the quality of BU’s faculty, clinics—like the Startup Law Clinic—and student body matched what I was looking for in a legal education. I felt that BU Law would challenge me intellectually.

Do you have any goals for your first year of law school, or is there a thing that you are most excited about?

My goals are probably typical of a first-year law student. I want to meet my classmates and make friends. I want to work hard and do well in classes. I want to learn to “think like a lawyer.” I also hope to land a summer position supporting innovation in Boston.

What do you do to relax? Do you have any hobbies?

Exercise is important to me. I love hiking, when I can get the time. Sometimes I go out to the Blue Hills, and this summer I hiked Mount Katahdin in Maine. With lots of legal cases to read, I might have less time now for hiking, but I’ve been taking bike rides along the Charles River, and that helps me unwind.

The Record: Tell us about your background?

I’m from Methuen, Massachusetts, originally, and I went to the US Military Academy at West Point for undergrad, where I was a comparative politics major.

Prior to law school, I spent eight years as an Apache helicopter pilot. I’ve been stationed all over the US and have had a few overseas deployments as well.

What made you want to go to law school?

I think some people know their whole lives that they want to be lawyers, but I don’t fit into that category. The intellectual rigor of the law interested me. I also think there’s a lot of good that you can accomplish as a lawyer.

It’s the same idea of service that attracted me to the military. My last deployment to the Middle East was in a place where the rule of law doesn’t exist. And I saw, firsthand, the repercussions that has on the civilian population. I won’t say that our system of justice in the US is perfect by any means, but we are fortunate to have some sort of structure and checks and balances. I want to ensure that the freedoms that we have here and the strength of our justice system are things that future generations can enjoy as well.

What made you want to attend BU Law?

I’m from the Boston area, so I love this city. On top of that, it was important to me to attend a law school where diversity was integral to the learning experience. BU takes pride in bringing together a diverse and talented group of learners who challenge each other for the benefit of the collective good. I’ve already experienced the benefits of this community during my short time at the law school.

Do you have any goals for your first year of law school, or is there a thing that you are most excited about?

I’d like to survive! But I’m probably most excited for the moot court competition in spring, because of my interest in litigation.

What do you do to relax? Do you have any hobbies?

I enjoy running a lot, and Boston is a great city run in. BU Law has a running club where people meet up in the mornings and run together. So, I started doing that with some of my classmates, which has been a great way to get to know people. It isn’t really a hobby, but I’m still serving as an Army reservist by teaching ROTC at MIT. It’s rewarding to work with the cadets, even though it can be strange to be in class as a student and then have to go and teach a class right afterwards.

The Record: Tell us about your background?

I was born and raised in London in the UK, and I spent a lot of time in between there and Los Angeles. For undergrad, I went to NYU. My major was history and my minors were Africana studies and Spanish.

After that I worked for an environmental law organization called Earthjustice. My core responsibilities involved helping attorneys with filings, but I was also able to get out in the field and advocate for folks, which is what I really enjoyed.

What made you want to go to law school?

My grandfather owned a home in London, and during the Margaret Thatcher era the local government raised the cost of property taxes where he lived. Most people on our street were African or Caribbean immigrants and it was just a way to move that community and make the street look more like how the government wanted it to look. But since my grandfather was an attorney, he was able to sue and keep his house.

And I’ve always found the story really inspiring. It shows how you can use the law to protect the people you love. But it’s sad and unfair that those other families who happened not to have a family member who was an attorney lost their homes. So from a really young age I knew I wanted to use my degree to help as many people as I can and to challenge injustice wherever I see it.

What made you want to attend BU Law?

It’s funny because I actually had not heard of BU until I started doing research and looking into law schools. One of my interests is international law, and I saw that BU has a study abroad program with the University of Oxford in the UK, so that was very interesting to me.

I also saw that the dean of the law school, Dean Onwuachi-Willig, is a Black woman, which is a very big deal, because law schools are historically very white spaces. And just hearing from people in BLSA—which is an amazing organization and such a force to be reckoned with—it felt like a good fit.

Do you have any goals for your first year of law school, or is there a thing that you are most excited about?

My goal is just to try my best and apply myself. I’m really enjoying networking and meeting people, especially as someone who’s doing this remotely and hasn’t actually been to the campus yet.

What do you do to relax? Do you have any hobbies?

I really love painting—I think it’s a great way to unwind. I bought a pink guitar on an impulse over the summer and named it Aretha. I can only play a few songs, but it’s nice to have.

I also do yoga and meditate. I have a playlist on YouTube with lots of guided meditations centered around Black female identity and how important it is for us to be in that space, and that’s helped me to be calm and mindful.

The Record: Tell us about your background?

I grew up in El Monte, California, near Los Angeles, and I went to Boston College and studied psychology. After that, I worked for the Red Sox as the visiting clubhouse assistant. Among my many responsibilities, I was also the official visiting team bat boy, which included running on the field to pick up bats, gloves, and balls whenever someone was done hitting.

Then for the past year and a half I worked in human resources for WGBH. I started out managing calendars for my team of 13 or 14 people and doing executive assistant work for the vice president of human resources. I also processed invoices, looked at contracts, and did some work with the finance team.

I’m a first-generation college student, so I didn’t really know what it meant to work professionally or what kind of jobs were  out there after college. It was a really good experience to go from the Red Sox to WGBH and see the different avenues that my life could have taken.

What made you want to go to law school?

Growing up, I always wanted to be an FBI agent or police officer, and a lot of that was because of the dramatization of being an officer that you see on TV. When a friend of mine went to law school and was telling me about it, I realized that I really liked the law behind those TV shows.

What made you want to attend BU Law?

As a BC grad, I could have never dreamed of going to a rival school, but BU Law has such a great reputation. I decided to tour BU and I absolutely fell in love with it. Plus, I’m interested in IP law and BU Law has a great IP program, so it was a really easy decision.

Do you have any goals for your first year of law school, or is there a thing that you are most excited about?

I want to learn how to write like a lawyer. I think it’s especially important in law school and to practicing law, so I really look forward to honing that skill.

I think I’m most excited about the networking, because I’m an extrovert. I feel like as an undergrad I didn’t really get that experience, so I’m excited about branching out into different areas of the law and exploring them, not just in class, but through people that are actually in the field.

What do you do to relax? Do you have any hobbies?

I like to watch sports, especially now because all of the sports from the spring and summer were pushed back. As the semester was starting, the NBA playoffs were going on, hockey playoffs were going on, there was baseball and then football. So, I’m just inundated with all these sports that I need to figure out how to keep up.

The Record: Tell us about your background?

I was born in Pennsylvania and grew up in Central Florida, in Kissimmee. I went to Florida State University, and I graduated in May with a BA in Italian and a BS in international affairs. I took the summer to relax a little, and my sister just had a baby—it’s so fun to help her.

What made you want to go to law school?

I think I decided to go to law school in fourth grade, but it wasn’t until later that I realized what that meant and that I do really want to be a lawyer. I took a course on prison abolition, and my professor became a good friend. We’re actually about to publish some of the research from our abolition work. I have experience with the carceral system through various family members, but I didn’t realize the impact that it had, and that there are transformative approaches to addressing those impacts. I started looking into this type of legal work and was fortunate enough to participate in the Movement Law Lab, about social-justice lawyering. It’s been really motivating.

What made you want to attend BU Law?

I wanted to be somewhere in the Northeast, and I limited myself to states that accepted the Uniform Bar Exam because I’m not sure where I want to practice yet.

It seemed like BU Law had an amazing course list and all of these opportunities, which I liked, because who knows if I take a class that I never thought I’d be interested in and then think, oh my gosh, maritime law is now the thing that I want to do!

Do you have any goals for your first year of law school, or is there a thing that you are most excited about?

I’m definitely excited to get into the classes. I want to do as well as I can and put myself in as good as a position as I can for a great summer job. I really want to push my networking, and I think it’ll be interesting to see how creative I can get during this time, especially because I’m not in Boston. I’m eager to see what happens.

What do you do to relax? Do you have any hobbies?

I love to play music. I play the ukulele and I’ve been playing flute for 11 or 12 years now. I’m learning to play the guitar and I dabble in harmonica. My boyfriend is a guitarist and has a little studio, so it’s a nice space to unwind.

I also love to read, but now I read so much for classes that I might have to wait for vacations to pick up my next book.

The Record: Tell us about your background?

I’m from New Jersey, originally, and I went to school at George Washington University. I spent a lot of time at GW researching the Affordable Care Act, and that got me interested in America’s healthcare system and how to improve it. After college I worked for Deloitte, a consulting company, and I focused on the healthcare space. I was consulting with the Kentucky cabinet for Health and Family Services, the National Institutes of Health, and the Food and Drug Administration.

What made you want to go to law school?

I’m very interested in how we can improve the healthcare system. There is a lot of intersection between health and law, because our laws govern what access people have to healthcare and affect the type of healthcare system that we have.

What made you want to attend BU Law?

The first thing is that BU has a very good health law program, so I was really excited to see the variety of health law classes that I can choose in my second year and get exposure to the healthcare industry and learn about the different issues that are facing it from a legal perspective.

The second reason actually came up as I was applying. The pandemic happened as I was trying to decide what law school to attend, and I was really happy with BU’s response. I feel very safe as a BU student because we’re tested so frequently and we have the option to attend remotely.

And the third thing is that my brothers also attended BU Law. My brother, Trevor, was Class of 2010 and my brother, Terence, was Class of 2006. They have shown me how close knit the BU community is. It has such a vast alumni network all over the country. I really wanted to take advantage of the connections and the opportunities that BU Law has to offer.

Do you have any goals for your first year of law school, or is there a thing that you are most excited about?

I want to make sure that I’m learning the foundational skills of law so that I can kind of propel myself into the second and third years. I also want to be involved in student organizations and make sure that I’m contributing to the BU Law community, even in a small way.

What do you do to relax? Do you have any hobbies?

I enjoy working out. I go to the gym as frequently as possible, and I have joined the BU running club, which has been a great way to connect with fellow students. Other than that, I took piano lessons for a long time and I have a keyboard in my room, so I try to keep up with that.