The Dean’s Awards for Community Leadership recognize a number of graduating students who contribute time and energy to making the Harvard Law School community a better place through involvement in student organizations and journals, community service groups, clinics, and through individual efforts. Nominations are made to the Dean of Students each spring and are reviewed by a committee.

The following students have been recognized for their notable participation in and contributions to the HLS community during the 2022–2023 academic year.


Mussab Ali

Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review, Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project, Harvard Law Student Government, Harvard Muslim Law Students Association, HLS Democrats

Samantha S. Camy

Board of Student Advisers, Harvard Black Law Students Association, Harvard Student Wellbeing Council, HLS Student Well-Being Working Group

Robb Dehney

Harvard Law Flag Football, HU Graduate Intramural Sports Committee 

Malia C. Gesuale

Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Education Law Clinic, Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic, Native American Law Students Association, The Reciprocity Effect

Christie H. Gibbons

Harvard Business Law Review, HLS Willem C. Vis Moot Team, Harvard Law Student Government, HLS American Constitution Society for Law and Policy, Section 8 Co-President

Ethan Harper

Harvard Catholic Law Students Association, Harvard Federalist Society, Harvard Law Midwest Club, Harvard Law Students for Life, Journal of Law and Public Policy

Joan Josiah

First Class Law Students Association, Harvard African Law Association, Harvard International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law Student Government, 
Women’s Law Association 

Nitika Khaitan

Co-Founder, LL.M. Discussion Series

Apoorva Krishnan

Criminal Justice Institute, Crimmigration Clinic, Harvard Defenders, 
Institute to End Mass Incarceration Clinic

Stefanie Leclerc

First Class Law Students Association, Harvard Association for Law and Business, Harvard Business Law Review, In Vino Veritas, Women’s Law Association

Arlene Altagracia Lopez

Harvard Law Student Government, Harvard Law School Animal Law Society, HLS Negotiators  

Sara Loughlin

Harvard Law Student Government, Women’s Law Association

Pablo Arturo Lozano

Crimmigration Clinic, Harvard Human Rights and Business Students Association, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Harvard Law School Armed Forces Association, Harvard Law Student Government, Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Clinic

Azucena Marquez

Belinda Sutton Memorial Quad Working Group, Board of Student Advisers, First Class Law Students Association, Harvard Latin American Law Review, Harvard Law School Immigration Project, La Alianza, Women’s Law Association

Ennely Medina

First Class Law Students Association, Harvard Human Rights Journal, Harvard International Law Journal, La Alianza

Uzma Nazir Chaudhry

Harvard Law Student Government

Rehan Staton

Harvard Black Law Students Association, The Reciprocity Effect, Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative 

Virginia D. Thomas

Belinda Sutton Memorial Quad Working Group, Harvard Black Law Students Association, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, La Alianza, Women’s Law Association 

Giovanna Traiman Coji

Harvard Association for Law and Business, Harvard Law Entrepreneurship Project, Jewish Law Students Association, La Alianza, Women’s Law Association 

Sara Tsai

Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, Harvard Negotiation Law Review, HLS Drama Society (Parody), Women’s Law Association 

Rosa C. Vargas

Harvard Catholic Law Students Association, Harvard Latin American Law Review, Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Clinic, La Alianza, Harvard University Presidential Search Student Advisory Committee

Noam Weiss

Co-Founder, LL.M. Discussion Series

Madeleine Campbell Wettach

Election Law Clinic, Harvard Law And Policy Review, HLS Drama Society (Parody), Women’s Law Association 


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