Omeed Alerasool
President
Omeed is a 3L at Harvard Law School from Princeton, New Jersey. Throughout law school, he has worked for the National Redistricting Foundation, Campaign Legal Center, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, Perkins Coie’s Political Law Group, and the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Before law school, Omeed was a Consulting Associate at Charles River Associates, an economic and litigation consulting firm. His commentary has been published in HuffPost, among other media outlets. Omeed is also the Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal.
Sarah Armstrong
Chief of Staff
Sarah is a 2L at Harvard Law School from Ambler, Pennsylvania. She is also an Executive Editor of Online Content for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and a member of the HLS Armed Forces Association. Before law school, Sarah worked in Washington, DC at Protect Democracy, a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to preserving and strengthening our democratic institutions. Sarah is a proud Navy veteran, where she worked as an intelligence officer. She spent her 1L summer working with the James Byrd Jr. Center to Stop Hate at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Her writing has been featured in the Washington Post and USA Today, among others.
Grant Fergusson
Director of Policy
Grant is a 3L at Harvard Law School from Atlanta, Georgia. He’s spent his summers working at the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning and Senator Ed Markey’s office, and at HLS, he also serves as the Vice President of Management for the Board of Student Advisers, as an editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, and as a member of Lambda. Before law school, he completed an MPhil in Public Policy from the University of Cambridge, worked as a paralegal at Kostelanetz & Fink, LLP, and spent a year traveling with the Yale Whiffenpoofs, an a cappella group. Grant has published research on partisanship and voter cognition in Self & Identity.
Christina Coleburn
Director of Communications
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stina is a 2L at Harvard Law School from New Jersey. After graduating from NYU, Christina spent nearly two years in New York City as a paralegal. At HLS, Christina serves as the Community Director and a Senior Editor for the National Security Journal and the Director for Membership and Engagement for the American Constitution Society. She also is a Senior Articles Editor for the Harvard Law and Policy Review. Christina spent her 1L summer at the U.S. Department of Justice as a legal intern for its Criminal Division Appellate Section.
Catherine Walker-Jacks
Director of Civic Engagement
Catherine is a 2L from Concord, Massachusetts. After graduating from Brown University in 2017, she spent two years at Deloitte in Washington, DC, working as a consultant for federal agencies. At HLS, Catherine is the Executive Online Editor for the Harvard Law and Policy Review and the Campaigns Co-chair for HLS Democrats. Catherine spent her 1L summer interning with the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, snowboarding, and spending time with her family’s yellow lab.
Delaney King
Director of Finance
Delaney is a 2L at Harvard Law School from Hillsborough, NC. At HLS, Delaney is a member of the Environmental Law Society and volunteers with the Mississippi Delta Project. Delaney served as a AmeriCorps fellow in local government and worked in nonprofit consulting before coming to HLS (figuratively, because the schoolyear was entirely virtual).
Carina McMillin
Director of Membership
Carina is a 2L at Harvard Law School from Sacramento, California. Before law school, Carina worked as a paralegal for a solo practitioner and taught English in South Korea. At HLS, she is involved with the Journal on Legislation, the International Law Journal, and the West Coast Club. In her spare time, Carina enjoys running and board games.
Dana Abelson
Director of Events
Dana is a 1L at Harvard Law School from Highland Park, IL. After graduating from Washington University in St. Louis in 2020, she worked at Common Cause in Washington D.C. doing voting rights advocacy and structural democracy reform work. At HLS, Dana is involved with the Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Women’s Law Association, and Lambda.