Category: Alumni Spotlight

Alumni Updates from HIRCP

It’s been a while since we’ve focused on alumni pursuits, so we’re excited to highlight a few Program graduates who are working in immigration law or related fields.   Shuting Chen ’09 A graduate of the clinic in 2009, Shuting Chen was appointed as an Immigration Judge for the San Francisco Immigration Court in October…
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Congrats recent graduates, and good luck on the bar!

With the upcoming bar examination, we wanted to shed light on what some of our graduates have been up to since graduation. Since graduating in May, our alumni are off to start some exciting adventures. From fellowships, to clerkships, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical program (HIRC) and Harvard Immigration Project (HIP) graduates are taking on…
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Alumni Interview with Fatma Marouf

Fatma Marouf received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2002. She now teaches immigration law and international human rights law at the William S. Boyd School of Law and is Co-Director of the school’s Immigration Clinic. Marouf attended Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program’s 30th Anniversary Conference in June, and is one of the alumni we interviewed. Why…
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Post Grad Profiles: Sarah Wheaton

Sarah Wheaton is a recent Harvard Law School grad who spent time at HIRC. Next year, she will be traveling to Egypt to work at a refugee resettlement legal aid center! We asked her about her time at the Clinic and how that influenced her plans after law school. Here is what she told us:…
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Recent Grad Spotlight: Q & A with Marina Basseas

Marina Basseas is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, and like Ryan Kurtz, she also spent time at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. In continuing with our recent profiling of this year’s HLS graduates, we asked her a few questions about her time at the clinic. She also shared her plans for next year! Here…
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Recent Grad Spotlight: Meet Ryan Kurtz!

Ryan Kurtz is one of the recent Harvard Law School grads who spent time at our clinic. Next year, he will be joining the Hudson County office of the New Jersey Public Defenders. We wanted to hear a little bit more about these plans, and about his time at HIRC, so we asked him a…
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And Our First Featured Graduate is … Tanika Vigil!

As promised, here is our first profile of a recent HLS graduate of the Class of 2014: Tanika Vigil chose to attend law school after working as a legal assistant at a small immigration law firm in her hometown of Boulder, Colorado. Once she was at Harvard Law, she spent much time working with the Harvard Immigration Project…
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Law School Graduates: What’s Next?

Every year, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic(HIRC) and Harvard Immigration Project(HIP) students graduate with many accomplishments and exciting plans, ready to take on new projects and begin their careers. But what are these exciting plans that each graduate intends on pursuing?  Harvard Law Commencement 2014 via Harvard Law Today  Throughout the upcoming weeks, we will be posting…
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