Summary
Graduate of William & Mary Law School with a focus on Federal Indian and Tribal Law.
Experience includes legal research and drafting for an Indigenous practice group,
supervised clinical practice under a third-year practice certificate, and criminal
defense motion practice. Sat for the California Bar Examination in July 2026.
Experience
Legal Extern · Cultural Heritage Partners, LLC, Richmond, Virginia
Summer 2025 to Fall 2025
- Conducted legal research and drafted memoranda for the Indigenous Practice Group on the history of ISDEAA and Tribal healthcare, cultural and natural resource provisions in Tribal legal codes, and the calculation of damages in ARPA cases.
- Compiled indexed inventories of HEARTH Act leases and Tribal code provisions for attorney reference.
- Drafted and cite-checked a client-facing Tribal healthcare legal toolkit for a national grant project.
- Researched and designed presentation materials for a state bar CLE on Tribal Law and Data Centers and a firm webinar on Tribal cultural protections with nearly 200 registrants.
Student Attorney · William & Mary Law School Community Law Clinic
Fall 2025
- Managed a divorce case on behalf of a low-income client under a Virginia State Bar third-year practice certificate.
- Planned and advertised a public eviction expungement event to expand access to legal aid for low-income residents of Hampton Roads.
Research Assistant · William & Mary Law School, Williamsburg, Virginia
June 2024 to January 2025
- Conducted legal research on the religious freedom articles of antebellum state constitutions, international post-WWI debt agreements, and disorderly persons statutes in Justice of the Peace Manuals from 1500–1850.
- Completed full Bluebook citations for obscure, complex, and historical sources.
- Drafted and presented weekly memoranda to Rita Anne Rollins Professor of Law Nathan Oman.
Summer Associate · Welch & Wright, PLLC, Norfolk, Virginia
May 2024 to July 2024
- Drafted motions for discovery, return of seized property, exclusion of evidence, and dismissal.
- Routinely completed bills of particulars for misdemeanor cases, firearms restoration petitions, and FOIA requests.
- Conducted legal research on the constitutional and statutory right to a speedy trial.
- Drafted an Opening Brief to assist supervising attorneys with appellate strategy for a felony case in the Court of Appeals.
Senior Research Assistant · Mind, Brain & Body Lab, UCLA Department of Psychology
October 2021 to June 2022
- Recruited over 150 parents and their biological or adopted children for longitudinal studies on the socioeconomic effects of adverse childhood experiences.
- Proctored data collection sessions and trained other research assistants in data entry.
- Prepared experiment database audits alongside Lab Directors for the Department of Psychology oversight committee.
Education
William & Mary Law School · Williamsburg, Virginia
May 2026
J.D.
- Activities
- Articles Editor, William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice; Founder and Secretary, Future Lawyers Against Gun Violence; 1L Representative and Event Chair, Plaintiff’s Law Society; 1L Representative and Event Chair, OUTLaw (LGBTQ+ Law Student Society)
University of California, Los Angeles · Los Angeles, California
June 2022
B.A. summa cum laude, History; B.A. cum laude, Psychology · G.P.A. 3.85
- Honors
- Dean’s Honors List for eight of twelve quarters; College Honors Program; Capstone Project on Cognitive Therapy’s effect on Honors Students
- Activities
- Honors Fellow mentoring students on capstones and major requirements; Executive Director, History Honors Society
- Study Abroad
- UCLA Travel Study, Paris, France, Summer 2019, Study of Medieval France