Co-Presidents
Ali Gentry ’23
Ali is a 3L from Dallas. She is a graduate of UT Austin and a big fan of the Texas Longhorns. During her 1L summer, Ali worked at the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program. She split her 2L summer between Locke Lord LLP and Disability Rights Texas. She plans to return to Locke Lord upon graduation. Ali also is the chair of the policy and advocacy committee at The Arc of Texas. In her free time, she enjoys reading and spending time with her dog, Hope.
Marty Strauss ’23
Marty Strauss is a 3L from Washington, D.C. As a neurodivergent person himself, he hopes to engage in a transformative legal career to better the lives of people with disabilities and represent them with compassion and empathy. Elsewhere in HLS, he is passionate about his work with the Prison Legal Assistance Project, the Harvard Law Record, the Bell Collective for Critical Race Theory, and the National Lawyers Guild. After law school, he will work as a public defender in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Treasurer
Hannah Wallach ’23
Hannah (she/her) is a 3L from New Jersey. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis. Before law school, Hannah worked at a New Jersey-based disability rights legal aid organization. During her 1L summer, she interned with the New York Civil Liberties Union, and during her 2L summer, she interned with the Educational Opportunities Section of the Civil Rights Division of the USDOJ. She was also a student attorney in the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic and is an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Hannah will be clerking after graduation. During her free time, she likes to read, work on puzzles, and pet her dog.
Dean of Students Liaison
Hannah Chi ’24
Hannah is a 2L from Hollywood, Maryland and California, Maryland. She graduated from the University of Maryland and spent four years working in global health prior to coming to HLS. She spent her 1L summer in San Diego and will be returning to the sunny city for her 2L summer at Latham & Watkins. At HLS, Hannah is also the Health & Wellness Chair on Student Government and a Sponsorship Chair on the West Coast Club.
Advocacy Chair
Josh Alpert ’24
Josh Alpert is a second year J.D. Candidate at Harvard Law School. Prior to coming to Harvard Law School, he received an A.A. in History and an A.A. in Sociology from Moorpark College before transferring to U.C. Berkeley where he received a B.A. in History. While at Berkeley, he was part of the national champion parliamentary debate team there, and was personally a national semifinalist. When not working as Advocacy Chair for DLSA, he spends his time as a member of the Harvard Law Board of Student Advisers, Assistant Managing Editor for the Harvard Human Rights Journal, Executive Managing Editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Student Attorney at Harvard Defenders, and a Research Assistant for Professor Crystal Yang. Josh plans to pursue a career in civil rights litigation and over this past summer as part of that journey, he worked as a summer law clerk for the Disability Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. This upcoming summer he will be working as a litigation intern for the NAACP LDF in Washington, D.C.
Event Coordinator
Becca Human ’23
Becca is a 3L from Omaha, Nebraska. She graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2019 prior to coming to HLS. She spent her 1L summer at Nebraska Appleseed, a non-profit in Omaha, before taking a year-long leave of absence during the pandemic, and spent an additional summer at Baird Holm in Omaha. During her 2L summer, she was a summer associate at Perkins Coie in Seattle, where she will return after graduation. Outside of class, Becca loves reading, creative writing, and watching movies.
Board Members At-Large
Kate Strickland ’23
Kate Strickland is a 3L from Cypress, Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019. After a cycling accident in her first year of undergrad left her paralyzed, Kate focused on the experiences of students with disabilities in higher education for her senior thesis. Kate is passionate about disability rights and ensuring any disabled individual has access to education and a fulfilling career. At HLS, Kate is involved in the Harvard Mediation Program which provides free mediation services in local courts. She spent her 1L summer at the Department of Justice working in the Disability Rights Section and will split her upcoming summer between WilmerHale in Washington, D.C. and Gibbs & Bruns in Houston, Texas.
Syed Rizvi ’24
Syed Rizvi is a blind 2L from Longmeadow, Massachusetts. He graduated from UT Austin in 2020 and has been working with the National Federation of the Blind for the better part of a decade on expanding access to employment. He spent his 1L summer at Vinson & Elkins LLP in Houston Texas and will be returning there in his 2L summer. Syed is the founding vice president of the Together Achieving Dreams foundation, an organization focused on lowering the 75% blind unemployment rate by partnering with private sector employers, such as big law, private equity, investment banking, and management consulting firms.
1L Representatives
Clyde Engle ’25
1L from Maui, Hawaii and Chicago, Illinois. Clyde has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and Leadership Studies from Williams College. During college, Clyde interned for Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. Before law school, Clyde lived in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Denver. He worked as a management consultant for Deloitte and a political staffer on Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, and tutored students and volunteered in homeless advocacy. At HLS, Clyde is a 1L rep for DLSA, and active in several other affinity groups. He has an autoimmune condition and is passionate about disability rights for people with non-biomarker illnesses. He is studying disability rights law under Professor Stein in spring 2023. In his spare time, Clyde enjoys politics, Chicago and Los Angeles sports (especially the Cubs and Dodgers), theatre, listening to Adele and Elton John, hanging out with his partner and miniature Bernedoodle puppy, Charlie, and searching for the world’s best chocolate lava cakes.
Jason Lee ’25
Jason is a 1L from Toronto, Canada and a graduate of the University of Waterloo. He has previously worked with the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association, where he worked on raising awareness of hearing loss issues among young people. He has also worked with the Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer of the Government of Canada on accommodation-related matters.
Angela Li ’25
Angela is a long-awaited 1L from sunny San Diego, California. Admitted through Harvard’s Junior Deferral Program, Angela spent her pre-law days as a Computer Science major at Caltech and a software engineer at Facebook (“”Meta””). Angela’s passions include advocacy for underrepresented minorities, wondering what her dog is thinking (likely nothing), telling embellished Silicon Valley stories, and doing outdoor workouts.