Our 2024-2025 Team
HLSBFI is a student-run community at Harvard Law School focused on the legal, economic, and policy frontiers of blockchain and financial innovation. In 2024-2025, our Board’s Conference Co-Chairs successfully organized HLS BFI’s Fourth Annual Conference, convening regulators, practitioners, and industry leaders to explore the evolving legal and policy landscape for digital assets and financial innovations, deepening HLS BFI’s industry relationships and institutional reach.
HLSBFI 2024–2025 Executive Board
Eileen Jeong
Eileen is a JD Candidate of Class of 2025. She graduated from Dartmouth College, where she majored in Economics and minored in Government. She spent her 2L summer at Skadden in New York, where she will be returning as an associate after graduation. Eileen is interested in all developments related to financial markets, technology, and regulation.
Michaelle Yeo
Michaelle is a 3L. Prior to law school, she worked for about seven years at several law firms, both on not-for-profit formations and exemptions, and in the emerging companies space, supporting financings, IPOs, M&A, and day-to-day corporate governance. She also spent time at Coinbase, where she worked on executive equity compensation, and on strategy and compliance for the Coinbase GiveCrypto Foundation. Michaelle will join Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP's Restructuring practice following graduation.
Jessie He
Jessie is a JD Candidate of Class of 2025 from Beijing, China. Before coming to HLS, she studied Sociology, Applied Math and Statistics, and International Studies at John Hopkins University. Jessie spent her 1L summer interning at the Central District of California and her 2L summer at Paul, Weiss.
Ayesha Bashir
Driven by a passion for the evolving intersections of law, technology, and finance, Ayesha is an LLM candidate at Harvard Law School. With a diverse international background and contributions to publications on tech law and transnational financial law, she brings both hands-on experience and global insight to the field. Committed to making technology accessible and fostering a deeper understanding of digital finance, Ayesha aims to create engaging opportunities for the HLS community to explore the rapidly changing landscape of blockchain and finance.
Akiva Stern
Akiva is a Harvard Law School student (Class of 2027) interested in business law and the future of FinTech. Before HLS, he earned a Talmudic degree from Yeshivas Novominsk and studied Jewish law abroad. He also worked as a paralegal at a business arbitration firm and has lectured internationally on various aspects of Jewish law. Akiva enjoys traveling and spending time with family.