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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