I. Current Activities
Hello. I’m cur
rently a 3L at Columbia Law School, where I am the Senior Articles Editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law and a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.
In Columbia Law School’s Environmental Law course, I earned the distinction “Best in Class.” My student note, on Article III standing for procedural rights claims, was awarded the “Best Note Prize” by the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law. It appears in Vol. 37, Issue 1.
During my 2L summer, I worked as a Summer Associate at Sive, Paget and Riesel, a boutique Manhattan law firm focused on environmental and land use law. I will be joining Sive, Paget and Riesel as an Associate Attorney next fall.
For my 1L summer, I worked as a Summer Law Clerk at the Center for Biological Diversity’s San Francisco office, supported by a Public Service Fellowship from Columbia Law School.
II. Background
Prior to law school, I earned a B.A. and M.A. with first class honors in political science at McGill University in Montreal. I was awarded the Guy Drummond Fellowship in Political Science by McGill University and the Joseph Armand-Bombardier Master’s Scholarship by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. As part of the Guy Drummond Fellowship program, I spent a year as a graduate fellow at L’Institut d’études politiques de Paris in Paris, France (“Sciences Po Paris”).
During my studies at McGill, I served as policy director for Stand Canada, a national student advocacy organization dedicated to stopping human rights abuses in Darfur. I also served as a staff writer for the McGill Daily. During summers, I served as a Mayoral Fellow for the City of Providence, Rhode Island, worked as an English instructor and journalism intern in Beijing, China, and served as a research assistant to Professor Samantha Power at the Harvard Kennedy School.
I was born in New York City, grew up in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and am a dual citizen of the US and Canada. Outside work, my interests include computers, backpacking, and music.