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2020 Robert W. WoodruffScholarship Program2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship ProgramWho’s WhoStephanie DingleIn 1980, Emory University established the Robert W. Woodruff Scholarsand Fellows Program to recruit and reward students with exceptionalcharacter, scholastic abilities, and leadership qualities.Robert W. WoodruffJust 33 years oldwhen he tookcommand ofThe Coca-ColaCo. in 1923,Robert WinshipWoodruffshaped thefledgling softdrink enterpriseand its bottlerfranchise systeminto a corporategiant with theworld’s mostwidely knowntrademark.A man of enormous stature and personalmagnetism, Woodruff’s influence over the affairsof Coca-Cola was absolute until his death in1985.Meanwhile, Ernest Woodruff had invested alongwith many other Atlantans in The Coca-Cola Co.,which had been acquired and taken public by asyndicate led by the Trust Co. of Georgia. Afterthe acquisition, the company fell on lean times, soErnest persuaded Robert to return to Atlanta andbecome its president.Woodruff was born in Columbus, Georgia, in1889 and soon moved to Atlanta, where hisfather, Ernest, became president of the TrustCo. of Georgia. An indifferent student, youngWoodruff wasted no time in making his mark inbusiness. Beginning as a salesman for the WhiteMotor Co. in Cleveland, Ohio, Woodruff quicklybecame the company’s most successful salesmanand was soon promoted to vice president andgeneral sales manager.The gift was called the largest single benefactionin American history and increased Woodruff’sdonations to the university to more than 200million. Emory, with five million shares of stock,became one of the largest owners of Coca-Cola.During the next six decades, Woodruff establisheda remarkable record as a businessman andphilanthropist. He gave anonymously to manyinstitutions, a number of which owe theirvery existence to his generosity. Much of hisphilanthropy was directed through the TreborFoundation, established in 1937 (renamed theRobert W. Woodruff Foundation following hisdeath). Woodruff and his brother also presidedover the Emily and Ernest Woodruff Fund, aseparate charitable foundation whose assets ofapproximately 105 million were distributed in1979 to Emory University.Director of Student LifeStephanie Dingle has over ten years ofexperience in higher education with afocus in student development, diversityand inclusion, leadership development,and community development. In hercurrent role, she provides support tomore than 60 student organizations,advises the Student Bar Association,and coordinates orientation programming. She is passionateabout diversity efforts and wrote her dissertation onintegrating International Students within the campuscommunity. Prior to joining the Emory community, Dinglereceived her doctorate degree from Clark Atlanta Universityin educational leadership, a master’s degree in college studentaffairs from Rutgers University, and a bachelor’s degree inLanguage and Cultural Studies from Trinity WashingtonUniversity.Andrew (Drew) Stevens 14L,Woodruff FellowUniversity Historian, Emory UniversityDrew Stevens is an associate in theArnall Golden Gregory LLP Litigationand Intellectual Property practicegroups, where he focuses on complexcommercial litigation involvingintellectual property, health systems,and real property. Stevens has extensiveexperience prosecuting and defending claims of trademarkinfringement and unfair competition, and he regularlyrepresents brand owners in cancellation and oppositionproceedings before the United States Trademark Trial andAppeal Board. Drew also counsels and represents hospitalsand health systems on compliance and in litigation underTitle III of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Section 1557of the Affordable Care Act, and Title VI of the Civil RightsAct of 1964, and in civil rights investigations brought by theDepartment of Justice and the Office for Civil Rights at theDepartment of Health and Human Services.Mary Anne BobinskiDean and Asa Griggs CanderProfessor of LawBefore joining Emory Law, Mary AnneBobinski was a professor at the AllardSchool of Law, where she served as deanfrom 2003 to 2015. Previously she wasthe John and Rebecca Moores Professorof Law and director of the Health Lawand Policy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center.She is a past president and board member of the AmericanSociety of Law, Medicine and Ethics and a past member2 Woodruff Finalist Weekendas of 3.18.20of the Canadian Public Health Officer’s Ethics AdvisoryCommittee. She has served as a visiting scholar at the Petrie- Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, andBioethics at Harvard Law School; the University of SydneyLaw School; the Melbourne Law School; and the Facultyof Law at Oxford University, where she also held a PlumerVisiting Research Fellowship at St. Anne’s College. Bobinskirecently completed a new edition of Health Care Law &Ethics (Wolters Kluwer) with her co-authors and is workingon a research project focused on the contested nature of thephysician-patient relationship, with a particular focus onlegal responses to conflicting values or norms.Kay L. LevineAssociate Dean for Faculty, Professorof LawKay Levine joined the Emory faculty in2003. She graduated Phi BetaKappa from Duke University andreceived her JD from the Universityof California-Berkeley, Boalt HallSchool of Law, where she served asan editor on the Berkeley Women’sLaw Journal. She later earned both a master’s degree and aPhD in jurisprudence and social policy from UC Berkeley.Before joining Emory, Levine served as a law clerk for theHonorable David Alan Ezra, US District Court, District ofHawaii; as a deputy district attorney in Riverside County,California; as a criminal defense consultant; and as anadjunct faculty member of Boalt Hall. Since joining Emory,she has earned both the Most Outstanding Professor Awardand the Emory Williams Teaching Award.Ethan Rosenzweig 02L,Woodruff FellowAssociate Dean for EnrollmentManagement and Student ServicesAfter serving as Emory Law’s directorof alumni affairs, Ethan Rosenzweignow oversees Emory Law’s admission,financial aid, and career services. Hehas served as deputy director of the USDepartment of Education’s Office ofPolicy Briefing and Scheduling as a Presidential ManagementFellow. After law school, he clerked for the HonorableG. Ernest Tidwell of the US District Court of NorthernGeorgia and then practiced law with Nelson Mullins Riley& Scarborough in Charleston, South Carolina. A WoodruffFellow, Rosenzweig graduated Order of the Coif and servedas the executive notes and comments editor for the EmoryLaw Journal. He received his undergraduate and master’sdegrees in public policy from American University.Woodruff Finalist Weekend 3
2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship Program2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship ProgramWho’s Who (continued)Selection Committee (continued)Julie SeamanAssociate Dean for Academic Affairs,Associate Professor of LawJulie Seaman teaches courses andseminars in evidence, constitutional law,and freedom of speech. Her researchinterests include neuroscience andlaw, scientific evidence, hate speech,and sex discrimination. In particular, shefocuses on the implications of findingsin cognitive psychology, biology, and neuroscience to variouslegal theories and doctrines. Professor Seaman received herBA from the University of Pennsylvania (summa cum laude)and her JD from Harvard (magna cum laude), where she wasan editor of the Harvard Law Review. She currently serveson the board of the Georgia Innocence Project.Selection CommitteeJames B. Hughes Jr.Associate Professor of LawJames B. Hughes Jr. received hisundergraduate degree from theUniversity of Connecticut, where hegraduated with honors, and earned hislaw degree from Yale University.Before joining the Emory faculty in1992, he was a partner in the Atlantafirm of Trotter, Smith & Jacobs,where he practiced in commercial real estate finance anddevelopment and related areas of law. At Emory, he teachescourses in property, real estate sales and finance, andprofessional responsibility. Hughes served a two-year term asinterim dean from September 2017 through July 2019.Hughes has been selected as the Most Outstanding Professorby the Emory Student Bar Association (2002) and asProfessor of the Year by the Black Law Students Association(2005). In addition to serving as associate dean for academicaffairs at the school (2002-2006 and 2014-2017), Hughesserved as vice dean of Emory Law from 2006 through 2011.His extensive service to the Emory community includesserving in the University Senate, University Faculty Council,and numerous law school and university committees.Rebekah LeMon 07L, WoodruffFellowExecutive Pastor, First PresbyterianChurch of AtlantaRev. Rebekah Close LeMon is executivepastor of the First Presbyterian Churchof Atlanta, Georgia. She grew up inSpartanburg, South Carolina, andis a graduate of the University ofNorth Carolina-Chapel Hill (AB InEnglish), Columbia Theological Seminary (MDiv), and4 Woodruff Finalist WeekendEmory University School of Law (JD). She practiced lawas a commercial litigator with a large Atlanta firm beforejoining the staff of First Presbyterian in 2011. She regularlyrepresented juvenile defendants as well as immigrantsseeking asylum in the United States. Her work at FirstPresbyterian ranges from advocacy for Atlanta’s homelesscommunity to pursuing global mission partnerships torunning a social entrepreneurship incubator to overseeingchurch operations and functioning as the church’s generalcounsel.She is married to Joel LeMon, associate professor of OldTestament at Emory University and the Candler School ofTheology. They are the proud parents of two wonderfulchildren: James, age twelve, and Caroline, age nine.Jeffrey (Steve) Ferketic 13L,Woodruff FellowAssistant United States Attorney,US Attorney’s Office for the District ofNew JerseySteve Ferketic is a federal prosecutorin Newark, New Jersey. Ferketicpreviously was an associate in theSecurities Litigation Group at Weil,Gotshal & Manges, a fellow at NYULaw’s Center on the Administration of Criminal Law, and alaw clerk for Judge Patty Shwartz of the United States Courtof Appeals for the Third Circuit and Judge Anne Thompsonof the United States District Court for the District of NewJersey. While at Emory Law, Ferketic was a Woodruff Fellow,editor-in-chief of the Emory Bankruptcy DevelopmentsJournal, and a member of the TI:GER Program. Beforeattending law school, Ferketic taught high school science inRoma, Texas, as a member of Teach For America. Ferketicis a graduate of the University of Connecticut where he wasa University Scholar and studied biological sciences andpolitical science.Silas Allard 11L 11TSenior Fellow at the Center for the Studyof Law and Religion, Managing Editorof the Journal of Law and ReligionSilas W. Allard is managing director andHarold J. Berman Fellow in Law andReligion at the Center for the Study ofLaw and Religion at Emory University.He is managing editor of the Journal ofLaw and Religion, published as a jointventure between CSLR and Cambridge University Press.His work has appeared in Refuge and Political Theology.A scholar of law and religious ethics, Allard’s work focuseson issues of migration and human rights. In addition tohis scholarly work, Allard serves in leadership roles for ElRefugio, a ministry of hospitality for the families of detainedimmigrants, and the Georgia Immigration Working Group.Allard joined CSLR, his alma mater, in 2013, following atwo-year clerkship with Chief Judge Donald C. Pogue at theUnited States Court of International Trade.A 2011 joint law and theology degree graduate, Allardserved as editor-in-chief of the Emory International LawReview, and received the university’s highest student honor,the Marion Luther Brittain award. In addition to his jurisdoctor and master of theological studies from Emory,he holds a bachelor of arts in religious studies from theUniversity of Missouri.Joanna M. ShepherdThomas Simmons Professor of LawBefore joining Emory, Joanna Shepherdwas an assistant professor of Economicsat Clemson University and worked atthe Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.In addition to her position at thelaw school, she currently serves asan adjunct professor in the EmoryDepartment of Economics.numerous courts, and she has testified about her empiricalwork before several legislative committees. Shepherd hasalso been invited to present her scholarly work by facultiesat leading universities around the country.Shepherd has considerable experience as an economicand statistical expert. She has authored numerous expertreports, testified at deposition and at trial in both federal andadministrative courts, and provided public policy researchand white papers for many clients. Her expert work hasexamined issues relating to market power and competition,economic impact analyses of proposed regulations,enforcement actions by federal agencies, and damagecomputations.Kamina A. PinderAssistant Professor of PracticeIn 2016 Kamina Pinder joined theEmory faculty, where she teaches firstyear legal writing and contracts. Shehas taught at several law schools inthe areas of legal writing, contracts,professional responsibility, remedies,case settlement negotiation, bar prep,and externship. Pinder is also a bar review lecturer in thesubject of professional responsibility. Her scholarship hasbeen published in the Stanford Journal of Civil Rightsand Civil Liberties, Amsterdam Law Forum, Journal ofLaw and Education, and the Georgetown Journal of Lawand Education. Pinder was a clinical teaching fellow atGeorgetown University Law Center. She previously practicedin the Office of the General Counsel for the United StatesDepartment of Education where she served as legal counselto a number of federal grant programs. Pinder received anLLM from Georgetown University Law Center, a JD fromthe New York University School of Law, and a BA fromSmith College.Much of Shepherd’s research focuses on topics in law andeconomics, especially on empirical analyses of legal changesand legal institutions. Her recent research has empiricallyexamined issues related to the healthcare industry, tortreform, employment law, litigation practice, and judicialbehavior. She has published broadly in law reviews, legaljournals and economics journals. In addition to publishingdozens of academic articles, Shepherd is the author oftwo textbooks: The Economic Analysis of Law and TheEconomics of Industrial Organization.Shepherd has been featured on several TV and radioprograms and has been interviewed about her research innumerous newspapers. 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2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship Program2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship ProgramCurrent FellowsCurrent Fellows (continued)CLASS OF 2020Frederick (Eric) JohnsonUniversity of Georgia 2012, BAmagna cum laude in political science;MPA in public affairs, services, andadministrationCaptain Frederick Johnson of the USAir Force (USAF) was commissioned in2012 and completed USAF intelligenceofficer training, followed by assignmentin the United Kingdom as flightcommander and executive officer for the 488th IntelligenceSquadron. As an aircrew instructor and evaluator, heexecuted missions supporting four named military operationsand was awarded the Air Medal, three Aerial AchievementMedals, and the Air Force Commendation Medal for hisservice. Additionally, he was named Squadron CompanyGrade Officer of the Year in 2015 and Officer Instructor ofthe Year in 2016. Prior to his distinguished military service,Johnson graduated magna cum laude from the University ofGeorgia with a BA in political science and an MPA in publicaffairs, services, and administration. His goal is to completehis legal education at Emory Law and return to his militaryservice as an attorney in the Air Force Judge AdvocateGeneral’s Corps.Samin MossaviFurman University 2017,BA summa cum laude in politics andinternational affairs, minor in MiddleEast and Islamic studiesSamin Mossavi, an Iranian American,was young when her family immigratedto the United States from Sweden.Post-9/11, she found that her diversebackground provided a foundationto help her dispel stereotypes, speak out against socialinjustices, and ultimately find her calling into the law.Her areas of interest include corporate and securities law.While at Furman, she completed internships at Jones Dayin Atlanta, Georgia, and at McGuireWoods Consultingin Richmond, Virginia. She was vice president of thePanhellenic Executive Council, captain of Mock Trial, andtreasurer of the Pre-Law Society. While at Emory, Mossaviexterned for Presiding Justice Nahmias of the GeorgiaSupreme Court, served as a caseworker for the InternationalRefugee Assistance Project, and worked as a summerassociate for Alston & Bird and King & Spalding in Atlanta.She is the vice president of the Middle Eastern Law StudentsAssociation and serves as the executive online editor of theEmory Law Journal. Upon graduation, Mossavi will serveas law clerk to Judge Traxler of the US Court of Appeals forthe Fourth Circuit, and in 2021 will join Weil, Gotshal &Manges’ (NYC) Securities Litigation practice.6 Woodruff Finalist WeekendCory MullVanderbilt University 2007, BE summacum laude in mechanical engineering,minor in management of technologyIn 2007, Cory Mull, a Marietta,Georgia, native, graduated summacum laude with a BE in mechanicalengineering from Vanderbilt University.As an undergraduate, he received theMechanical Engineering Program Award, was inducted intothe Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, and was theSigma Alpha Epsilon Scholarship chair. After graduation,he began an eight-year career with Chevron Corporation,starting as a subsea pipeline engineer and rising throughthe ranks to site lead, managing a team of over 20 peopleacross four worksites on the Congo River Crossing RecoveryProject. In search of more stability, Mull became a registeredpatent agent in 2015 and took a position with Taylor EnglishDuma LLP in Atlanta, Georgia, in early 2016. Followinggraduation from Emory University School of Law, he intendsto combine his technical expertise and law education tobetter serve clients as a patent attorney.CLASS OF 2021Matthew BelitsosWestern Michigan University 2016BS summa cum laude in studentintegrated curriculum withconcentrations in computer science,mathematics, and EnglishMatthew Belitsos is a passionatecommunity advocate. He co-foundedthe Asheville Small Home AdvocacyCommittee, where he collaborateswith business leaders, concerned citizens, and governmentagencies to increase the availability of affordable housing.Previously, Belitsos specialized in the technology industry,managing engineering solutions at Internet Security Systemsand overseeing security services infrastructure at IBMCorporation, where he directed a team of senior engineerssupporting a division with more than 400 million in annualrevenue. He is a lifelong musician who is proficient inpercussion and guitar performance.Margaret (Maggie) ClarkLinden WaitUniversity of North Carolina – ChapelHill 2014, BA with highest distinctionin political science and global studies,minor in Arabic languageLinden Wait is originally from themountains of North Carolina andgraduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in2014 with a BA in political scienceand global studies. Before law school,she taught English at an Islamic Senior High School inIndonesia and worked with the International Associationof Women Judges on equal justice initiatives in the MiddleEast and North Africa. She is passionate about advocatingfor refugee and immigrant communities. She currently servesas president of Emory’s chapter of the International RefugeeAssistance Project and is a founding member of the EmoryImmigrant Legal Assistance Clinic. While in law school,she has interned with the Tahirih Justice Center, ProjectSouth, Atlanta Legal Aid, and Access to Law Foundation.Wait is currently interning with the Atlanta City PublicDefender’s new Immigration Defense Unit and plans topursue a career in immigration and criminal defense. Aftergraduating, she will work as a judicial law clerk at the NewYork Immigration Court through the Department of JusticeHonors Program.University of Georgia 2018BA magna cum laude in internationalaffairs and ecologyMaggie Clark is a model academic.During her time in the honors programat UGA, she conducted extensiveecological and international affairsresearch on topics such as climatechange on vulnerable populations and environmentallyendangered cultures as well as a comparative case study ofthe risk of Zika contraction based on societal gender normswith a focus on sexual violence. In addition, she served theUGA community as a student ambassador and representativeon the Undergraduate Program Committee for the OdumSchool of Ecology, secretary to the Pi Sigma Alpha PoliticalScience Honor Society, and a mini-grant participant inLeadership UGA. Clark also fulfills her passion for the artsby acting in numerous stage performances, singing with hera cappella choir, and overseeing several theater productionsin the Athens arts community.Laura FlintEmory University 2016, BA summa cumlaude in political science with a minor ineconomicsAfter graduating from Emory Universitysumma cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa,Laura Flint returned home to theWashington, DC, area and worked forthe Federalist Society for two years.As assistant director and then deputydirector, she helped to coordinate the programming activitiesof the society’s fifteen practice groups. At Emory Law, Flintis the president of the Emory Federalist Society and a staffmember on the Emory Law Journal. She plans to clerk forUS Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Elizabeth Branch 94L(Eleventh Circuit)after graduation.Suman MalempatiDuke University 1990, BA cum laude inhistory; Washington University Schoolof Medicine 1996, MDSuman Malempati came to EmoryLaw to pursue a career in civilrights. Prior to law school, he wasan accomplished physician, medicalresearcher, and educator. Malempatiwas associate professor of pediatricsat Oregon Health & Science University in the Divisionof Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, where he served onseveral institutional, regional, and national committees andpublished more than thirty peer-reviewed articles and bookchapters. At Emory, Malempati’s interest in civil rights andsocial justice has flourished. He is active in many EmoryLaw student organizations, including the Emory PublicInterest Committee and the Emory Law School SupremeCourt Advocacy Program, and he is executive online editorof the Emory Law Journal. Malempati worked as a summerintern for the Honorable Amy Totenberg, US District Courtfor the Northern District of Georgia, after his first year andwill intern with the Southern Environmental Law Center thissummer.Woodruff Finalist Weekend 7
2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship Program2020 Robert W. Woodruff Scholarship ProgramFellowship Finalists (continued)Current Fellows (continued)CLASS OF 2022Nick BarkerGeorgia Institute of Technology 2015, BSin international affairsNick Barker graduated with highesthonors from the Georgia Institute ofTechnology, where he earned a bachelor’sdegree in International Affairs. Barkerstudied Arabic in Jordan until hereturned to Atlanta, where he served forseveral years as a refugee resettlementcase manager at Lutheran Services of Georgia. Currentlyin his first year at Emory Law, Barker enjoys his classesand works as Professor Morgan Cloud’s research assistant.He is the 1L Representative for Emory’s chapter of theInternational Refugee Assistance Project, which will soonopen a legal clinic to assist local refugees. Barker is exploringvarious practice areas, but he has a particular interest inimpact litigation. In his free time, Barker enjoys listening toNPR podcasts, taking walks around Emory’s campus, andspending quality time with his friends and family in Atlanta.Shannon MitchellUniversity of Texas at Austin 2019, BAin international relations and globalstudiesShannon Mitchell is passionate aboutthe study of political and humanitarianissues in the Middle East, especiallythe refugee crisis. She has an advancedproficiency in Arabic. At the Universityof Texas at Austin, she participated inthe Arabic Flagship Program sponsored by the Departmentof the Defense to achieve fluency in Arabic. She also attendedan intensive Arabic language program at the ModernArabic Language International Center in Jordan. Beyondthe classroom, Mitchell participated in a refugee mentorshipprogram, where she tutored refugee children from Arabicspeaking countries. She worked as a research intern at ClarkCenter for Australian and New Zealand Studies.Daniel Zozaya BrownThe George Washington University 2011,BA in political scienceUniversity of Missouri 2017, MA inpublic affairsDaniel Zozaya Brown is passionateabout the importance of corporatesocial responsibility and public service.Upon graduating from the GeorgeWashington University, Zozaya Brownjoined the Peace Corps and served in Ecuador assistingin the implementation of new educational policies. Inaddition, Zozaya Brown has also worked as a Peace Corpsrecruiter, government translator, and has taught high schoolliterature and composition in Mexico, his birthplace.After obtaining a master’s degree in public affairs from theUniversity of Missouri, he worked in economic developmentfor two years developing sustainable business initiativesand providing resources to low-income immigrant familiesand aspiring entrepreneurs to help them achieve economicindependence and prosperity. Zozaya Brown is also fluent inSpanish, served as a member of the Quad Cities Chamber ofCommerce’s business advisory committee, and is a constantvolunteer with organizations such as the Boys and GirlsClubs, SCORE, Habitat for Humanity, and the AtlantaVolunteer Lawyers Foundation.Fellowship FinalistsJonathan ArnoldSouthern Methodist University 2020(anticipated), BS in philosophy withSpanish and cognitive science minorsJonathan Arnold is an exceptionalstudent and was inducted into PhiBeta Kappa as a junior, though thehonor is typically reserved for seniorstudents. Arnold served as summerintern for US Congressman Cedric L. Richmond, chairmanof the Congressional Black Caucus from 2017 to 2019. Asan undergraduate he won the Ehlin Hoskins OutstandingPhilosophy Essay Award in 2019 and has been elected as theSMU Philosophy Club president for four consecutive terms.Passionate about physical health, Jonathan became a certifiedpersonal trainer and works at the SMU campus fitness facilitytraining students and faculty.8 Woodruff Finalist WeekendHannah FinnieEmory University 2015, BA inmathematics with an additional major inpolitical scienceHannah Finnie has a passion foreconomic justice. She was a ScholarlyInquiry and Research Fellow and aCenter for the Study of Law, Politics,and Economics Fellow. A recipient ofthe Boozer-Noether Scholarship, she worked at the Centerfor American Progress, focusing on economic justice forAmerican youth and LGBTQ equality. Finnie works at theNational Women’s Law Center (NWLC), where she managesadvocacy work concerning income security and childcare,campaigns regarding the administration’s regulatory actions,lawsuits filed by the NWLC, traditional media strategy, andsocial media content. At Emory, Finnie was invited to join PiSigma Alpha, the national political science honor society.Spencer FureyDartmouth College 2017, BA summacum laude in history with a minor inEnglish; Cambridge University 2018,MPhil American historySpencer Furey is a consummate scholarathlete. A member of the United StatesNational Rowing Team, he is trainingfor the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo,Japan. He graduated with honors while also competingas a four-year member of the Dartmouth College RowingTeam. Furey is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a RufusChoate Scholar, and a James O. Freedman PresidentialScholar. Furey received Class of 1948 Scholar-AthleteAward and James B. Reynolds Scholarship for ForeignStudy. He is a case assistant at Paul Hastings LLP in SanFrancisco, California, where he works in the EmploymentLaw group focusing on wage and hour disputes, employmentdiscrimination, arbitration, and complex litigation.Melissa GerdtsDuke University 2019, BA internationalcomparative studies; Medieval andRenaissance studies with a French minorMelissa Gerdts is a student and teacher.She works as an English teachingassistant with the Fulbright US StudentProgram. She handles multiple Englishclasses, focusing on US culture andintegrating Speak Truth to Power, a human rightseducation program, to children between three and eighteenyears old for a program at Fundación Secretariado Gitano,a nonprofit organization that works with the Romacommunity in Spain. During her time at Duke University,Gerdts was a student associate with the Center for LatinAmerican and Caribbean Studies, interned with the SmallArms Survey in Geneva, Switzerland, and volunteeredwith DukeEngage India. She received the Dean’s SummerResearch Fellowship and the First Year of the Year Award.Ethan GordonUniversity of North CarolinaGreensboro 2016, BS in economics;2017 MA in applied economics; 2019MA in philosophy (anticipated)Ethan Gordon is a lifelong learner.While completing his master’s degreein philosophy, Gordon is a graduateteaching assistant for Virginia Tech’sPhilosophy, Politics, and EconomicsProgram. While earning previous degrees, he was a teachingassistant for introductory philosophy courses and research/graduate assistant in macroeconomics. He spent a semesterabroad at National Taiwan University. He was inducted toPhi Beta Kappa and is proficient in Mandarin Chinese.Sloan HodgesGeorgia Institute of Technology2020 (anticipated), BS in businessadministration with a minor ininternational affairsSloan Hodges is a former JuniorOlympian competing in water polo andan accomplished student. A recipientof the Zell Miller Schola
affairs at the school (2002-2006 and 2014-2017), Hughes served as vice dean of Emory Law from 2006 through 2011. His extensive service to the Emory community includes serving in the University Senate, University Faculty Council, and numerous law school and university committees. Rebekah LeMon 07L, Woodruff Fellow Executive Pastor, First .
