2021-2022 Leadership Board

Samantha Altschuler, Co-President

Samantha is a third-year student at Harvard Law School from New Jersey. She served as a Legal Intern for Uniswap Labs during her 2L year and spent her 2L summer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she will be returning after graduation. She spent her 1L summer as a Legal Intern for the rideshare software company, Via. She is currently an advisor for the Blockchain Chain for Social Impact Coalition. She is passionate about the intersection of law and technology, and participated in the Cyberlaw Clinic as well as the Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project. She has been a Research Assistant for the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society. Samantha graduated from Brown University where she majored in Political Science. After graduating, she worked for a machine learning insurtech start-up in Tel Aviv before starting law school.

Maude Wilson, Co-President

Maude is a third-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School. She is from Southampton, New York and graduated from Hamilton College in 2017. She spent her 2L summer at Davis Polk & Wardwell. She spent her 1L summer in the Civil Division of the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York. She is currently an advisor for the Blockchain Chain for Social Impact Coalition.

Gadi Winter, Co-Vice President of Research

Gadi is an LL.M. student at Harvard Law School. He graduated from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) with an M.A. in Law and is admitted to the bar in Switzerland. Prior to attendingHLS, Gadi worked as an associate with a leading Swiss law firm where he primarily advised clients in the FinTech & Blockchain space.

Jacek Czarnecki, Co-Vice President of Research

Jacek is an LLM student at Harvard Law School. He graduated from the University of Oxford (MSc in Law and Finance) and University of Warsaw (Master of Law). Jacek has spent his professional career in the fintech and blockchain space, most recently as Global Legal Counsel at the Maker Foundation, a key entity behind a large Decentralized Finance (DeFi) project MakerDAO. He has been involved in many other business and academic projects and industry organizations around the globe and spoke at multiple crypto and blockchain conferences and events.

Christian Lansang, Director of Business Development

Christian is a second-year J.D. student at Harvard Law School from Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in Science, Technology, and Society. Christian has worked as an operator at a variety of apparel and fintech startups, and during the pandemic, founded a clothing brand that donates a portion of its proceeds to organizations dedicated to stopping violence towards Asian Americans. He worked at Cooley’s Santa Monica office during his 2L summer, and he spent his 1L summer at Morgan Stanley in New York.

HK Yuh, Vice President of Professional Relations

HK is a JD/PhD candidate at Harvard Law School and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is from Scarsdale, NY and graduated from Princeton University in 2014. HK spent her 1L summer at the International Finance Corporation and split her 2L summer between the New York and London offices of Kirkland & Ellis.

Madeleine Matsui, Vice President of Communications

Madeleine is a second-year student at Harvard Law School from Hong Kong. She graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in International Relations and Urban Studies. She spent her 1L summer at the New York University Center for Human Rights and Global Justice.