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Below is contact information for the current JD\/MPP students. Feel free to reach out if you are interested in the program!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosa Baum
Class Year: 2021
E-mail: rbaum@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Boulder, CO
Interests: Rosa is pursuing a career in the public sector in order to to help shape compassionate policies and amplify the voices that we all too often ignore. Using the masters as an anchoring framework to ground policy in history, data, and strategic opportunity\u2014and using the law as a powerful tool for change\u2014she hopes to be an effective advocate for the most vulnerable among us. Specifically, she aspires to address the inequalities and vulnerabilities that borders create.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Bloomer
Class Year: 2019
E-mail: lbloomer@jd19.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Sugarland, TX
Interests: Laura\u2019s background is in campaigns and education. During law school, she\u2019s primarily worked on environmental regulations at the federal level. She plans to pursue a career in environmental law\/policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cayla Calderwood
Class Year: 2020
E-mail: ccalderwood@jd19.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Whidbey Island, WA
Interests: Environmental law with a specific focus on marine management\/fisheries. Also some interest in energy law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liz Coffin-Karlin
Class Year: 2020
E-mail: ekarlin@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Sarasota, FL
Interests: Liz is interested in cross border issues involving rights and boundaries, with a focus on movement of peoples and ideologies across borders. She spent this past summer working at the US\/ Mexico border to get asylum seekers out of immigration detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cici Coquillette
Class Year: 2019
E-mail: ccoquillette@jd19.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Winnetka, IL
Interests: Cici is a fourth-year joint degree student specializing in reproductive rights and gender equality. In her time at HLS\/HKS, she has worked closely with the Women and Public Policy Program and has interned with the ACLU, Center for Reproductive Rights, and Rise Up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chloe Cotton
Class Year: 2020
E-mail: ccotton@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Anchorage, AK
Interests: Chloe is interested in working on voting rights and election law. She has interned with the Campaign Legal Center and the Center for Secure and Modern Elections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Juan P. Farah
Class Year: 2022
E-mail: jfarahyacoub@jd21.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Caracas, Venezuela
Interests: Juan is interested in sovereign debt, restructuring, international public law, international financial law. He is in the JD\/MPA-ID program and was an economist in pre-law life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imani Franklin
Class Year: 2019
E-mail: ifranklin@jd19.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Interests: Imani\u2019s focus in the past has been on human rights violations in the Middle East\/North Africa \u2013 particularly issues of youth and women\u2019s empowerment. Her interest is now shifting toward human rights abuses in the United States, particularly in the areas of immigrant rights and racial justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam Gilman
Class Year: 2021
E-mail: sgilman@jd21.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Interests: Prior to school, I worked in politics, as a management consultant, and education technology. These experiences have focused me on social and economic justice issues, and I am particularly interested in issues around the future of work, emerging technologies, consumer finance, and the political economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drew Heckman
Class Year: 2020
E-mail: drew.t.heckman@gmail.com
Hometown: Omaha, NE
Interests: Drew\u2019s previous work experience has focused on LGBTQ equality, and he is excited to be getting more involved in efforts for racial and immigrant justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sam Horan
Class Year: 2021
Hometown: Medfield, MA
Interests: Sam is interested in civil rights law. In particular, he\u2019s focused on education and voting rights issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niku Jafarnia
Class Year: 2020
E-mail: njafarnia@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Fremont, CA
Interests: I\u2019ve spent the last several years working with refugee communities across the world. Our current system of refugee advocacy strips refugees of their agency, and I hope leverage my privileges and my education in law and policy to empower refugees to have greater autonomy in the rebuilding of their lives and their communities. Broadly speaking, I\u2019m interested in understanding how policies\u2014from housing to health\u2014have codified inequity, and learning how to adapt those policies to better serve traditionally disenfranchised groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Demarquin Johnson
Class Year: 2020
E-mail: djohnson@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Interests: Demarquin is interested in issues of democratic participation among underserved and underrepresented communities. He focuses his efforts on electoral reform, reentry programs, and direct voter engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will Lindsey
Class Year: 2021
E-mail: wlindsey@jd21.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Durham, North Carolina
Interests: State Government, Opioid Crisis Response, Workforce Development, Redistricting, Voter Access<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles Orta
Class Year: 2021
E-mail: corta@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Miami, FL
Interests: On the policy side, Charles is fascinated by national security and foreign policy issues. On the law side, he is interested in international, public interest, and human rights law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Pollack
Class Year: 2020
E-mail: jpollack@jd19.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: San Francisco Bay Area, CA
Interests: Before his JD\/MPP, James spent two years working on Capitol Hill for a Member of the House of Representatives. Long term, he hopes to advise elected officials in a fast-paced public policy role, such as a Chief of Staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sean Quirk
Class Year: 2021
E-mail: squirk@jd21.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Palo Alto, CA
Interests: After serving in the Navy, Sean joined the JD\/MPP program to better understand lawmaking, U.S. foreign policy, and international law. Sean hopes to have a career in policymaking after graduation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jillian Rafferty
Class Year: 2020
E-mail: jrafferty@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Dedham, MA
Interests: Jillian is interested in the intersection of human rights and international security. In grad school, that has meant a lot of classes on human rights law and international humanitarian law \u2014 and research and work on topics like human rights protections in prosecutions of terrorists, or domestic and international legal duties for militaries to protect civilians from harm during conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zachary Smith
Class Year: 2021
Hometown: Toronto, ON
Interests: Cities and the Canadian north<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabelle Sun
Class Year: 2019
E-mail: isun@jd18.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Rockville, MD
Interests: Isabelle is interested in the intersection of law and policy to address issues of poverty, inequality, and economic opportunity. She hopes to apply her education towards using law and policy as forces for positive social change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parker White
Class Year: 2020
E-mail: pwhite@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Montgomery, AL
Interests: Parker is interested in the intersection of international humanitarian law and U.S. foreign policy. Specifically, he has interests in conflict resolution and policy regarding displaced populations in the regions of the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. More broadly, he is interested in the processes of diplomacy, negotiation, and intercultural exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Basil Williams
Class Year: 2019
E-mail: bwilliams@jd19.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: White Lake, MI
Interests: Environmental law and policy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lena Yoon
Class Year: 2020
E-mail: hyoon@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Hometown: Seoul, Korea
Interests:Lena\u2019s interests include foreign policy, international development, and legal work with international dimensions<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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