Assistant Director

Education

Hofstra University School of Law

Hempstead, NY

Juris Doctor- May 2010

Honors: Academic Scholarship and Public Justice Foundation Fellowship

Bar Admission - Passed New York State Bar Examination.

Activities: Moot Court Board Senior Staff Member; Amnesty International

Vice-President; Graduate Research Assistant

Colorado State University

Denver, CO

Bachelor of Arts - May 2005 - International Relations, European

Concentration, History and English Minors

Honors: Magna cum Laude; Sachs Scholarship Recipient 2001-2005

Employment

August 2010 - November 2010 Craig Johnson for State Senate (SD

7) Nassau County, NY

Regional Field Organizer/Staging

Director for GOTV

. Supervised 3% audit of new voting machines to ensure that integrity of

the democratic process.

. Helped research in preparation for a motion for hand count of SD 7

region to determine control of New York State majority.

. Coordinated with community groups to successfully maximize outreach in

three targeted democratic bases.

. Engaged local leaders to organize volunteers and events to increase

voter turn-out.

. Recruited, trained and supervised a team of seventy-five volunteers to

identify supportive democratic voters through phone banking and

canvassing.

o Resulted in 300 shifts filled and the identification of 15, 000

potential voters.

. Organized two large rallies that garnered media coverage to engage

minorities in the political process.

. Provided daily qualitative reports to Field Director concerning

regional campaign goals.

. Managed GOTV and Election Day operations for top democratic base.

Jan. 2010 - May 2010 Valli Kane & Vagnini LLP

Garden City, NY

Legal Intern

. Drafted motions compelling discovery; discovery demands, responses;

affidavits; settlement letters and initial disclosures.

. Administered client intake; filed court documents and logged billable

hours for an employment discrimination and civil rights law boutique.

August 2009 - Dec. 2009 Hofstra University School of Law

Political Asylum Clinic Hempstead, NY

Legal Advocate

. Drafted and filed an appeal with the Board of Immigration Appeals.

. Developed case theory for a domestic abuse asylum case from Nepal.

. Conducted the direct examination of a special immigrant juvenile for

an adjustment hearing.

. Represented a client in a Master Calendar Hearing.

. Conducted client interviews to develop case theory and effectively

represent facts in affidavits,

. Drafted memoranda, affidavits and assembled country conditions.

. Filed motions in Immigration Court.

May 2009 - August 2009 Fink & Platz

Garden City, NY

Law Clerk

. Drafted pleadings and motions.

. Prepared legal memoranda on various personal injury, medical

malpractice and labor issues.

. Performed client intake, attended settlement conferences and filed

motions.

June 2008 - August 2008 Lawyers Without Borders, Inc.

Hartford, CT

Legal Intern

. Drafted memorandum on customary marriage and the prevalence of marital

rape in Kenya that was implemented into a program to train prosecutors

in Nairobi.

. Researched German, Polish and Czech electoral law in preparation for

grant proposals.

. Drafted grant proposals.

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