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About the Lead Contributor
The Lead Contributor is a native & proud New accepted one of her job offers.
Yorker. But sick of shoveling snow, she graduated The Lead Contributor, Randi, was enrolled in her
with a B.A. in Criminology, minoring in African law school’s 2-year Accelerated Honors Program and
American Studies from a school in Florida. Then she graduated May 2019. Randi’s reputation of
obtained an ABA-approved paralegal certificate and commitment to other law students was well-earned.
B.S. in paralegal studies, graduating early from both, When good-naturedly teased about her level of
summa cum laude and magna cum laude, involvement by her colleagues, Randi has been
respectively. Before attending law school, she known to laugh and state, “Law school’s hard enough
worked in an alternative sentencing court as a – I just want other law students to feel supported.”
researcher primarily in the court’s sex trafficking She served as her law school’s student representative
department and volunteered to teach job and of Equal Justice Works and her law school’s chapter
computer skills to low level former offenders while vice-president of a human rights organization. Most
simultaneously maintaining her job as a real estate notably, Randi was asked to serve on the national
agent. Subsequently, the Lead Contributor worked as stage in the National Black Law Students Association
a paralegal in mid-to-large sized law firms, primarily (NBLSA) as the National Parliamentarian, Chair of
in the area of litigation. the National Elections Committee, Chair of the
Committed to public interest work, the Lead National Constitution & Bylaws Committee,
Contributor has participated in her law school’s performed some national secretarial functions, and
Center for Public Interest Law, Civil Rights Clinic, filled in as interim acting National Chief-of-Staff all
and Legislative Advocacy Clinic with the state’s in the same year. Randi previously served NBLSA as
civil liberties union and volunteered as a student the Northeast Regional Designee to the National
representative in the Courtroom Advocates Program Elections Committee and earlier as local chapter
representing clients seeking to obtain orders of Parliamentarian, 1L Academic Coordinator, regional
protection from their abusers. Over her second and national convention delegate, and was
summer in law school, the Lead Contributor interned groomed/elected to the chapter’s executive board in
with an entity working with members of the several other chapter positions.
community living with HIV in the housing and
immigration departments. Upon (hopefully) passing Randi, Lead Contributor
the bar, she will be working in the area of civil rights
law. Through networking, she received and recently
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