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Over the past two summers, Miami native STEPHANIE SILK has served as an intern for Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida and as a summer associate in White & Case’s Miami office. She is currently an Executive Editor of the University of Miami Law Review and is working with first-year students as a Dean’s Fellow for Professor Anthony V. Alfieri. She has participated in Miami Law’s Death Penalty Clinic and volunteered with Books & Buddies, which connects law students with elementary school students. Silk is also a member of Phi Delta Phi and Miami Law Women. A Duke University graduate, she majored in political science and French. When CHRISTINE JOB first walked onto the Bricks in 2010, she never imagined that she would one day serve as president of Miami Law’s Student Bar Association, but that’s just what happened last April. A native of Suwanee, Ga., Job earned a business degree from the University of Georgia before coming to the University of Miami to pursue a J.D./M.M., a joint degree in law and music business. Job, a James Weldon Johnson/Robert H. Waters Fellow, served as a first-year senator and became president of the SBA’s Inter-Club Council. Now, as President of the SBA, she wants to strengthen the bonds between students and alumni and cultivate “a culture of leadership and service within the Miami Law community.” Job said students sometimes forget that the law is, above all, a service-based profession. “It’s great that we are nationally known for our public interest programs, and now we have to maximize that image,” she said. “We have a lot to give.” MICHAEL J. GROSS has a B.A. in History from UM and is a Dean’s Merit Scholar at Miami Law. A student ambassador, his interests are litigation, sports entertainment, and public interest law. He has interned for Judge Jorge E. Cueto in the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida and in the Homicide Counseling Unit at the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office. Gross is President of Students with Heart Foundation, providing scholarships to graduate and undergraduate students with heart disease. Gross created the organization after his own struggles navigating the hurdles of higher education while dealing with his heart condition. He is a member of HOPE Public Interest Resource Center.
L. CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS interned for federal Judge Donald L. Graham in the Southern District of Florida, and worked for both the University of Miami’s Office of the General Counsel and the Hallandale Beach City Attorney. Saunders has a Master’s in Administration of Higher Education Administration from Suffolk University. At Miami Law, he has served as Community Relations Director of the Black Law Students Association and Articles Editor of the Race & Social Justice Law Review, and is a fellow for STREET LAW. CAROLINE LAPORTE’s family belongs to the Seven Original Clans (Makwa, or Bear Clan) of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. After attending Baylor University in Texas, LaPorte became a Miami Teaching Fellow in Little Haiti and Liberty City. She came to Miami Law because of its unique position near the Seminole and Miccosukee Reservations and the school’s commitment to cultural diversity and pro bono work. LaPorte interned last summer at the U.S. Department of Justice, in the Office of Tribal Justice. This fall at the law school, she worked with the Children and Youth Law Clinic, and hopes to start a chapter of the National Native American Law Students. LOGAN HAINE-ROBERTS, a political science major from St. Mary’s College of Maryland, taught literacy to children in Washington D.C. before moving to Japan, where he became an integral part of a remote mountain village for two years. Returning to the U.S., Haine-Roberts worked as a paralegal at Jackson & Campbell, a 50-attorney firm in Washington D.C. As a law student, he is committed to exploring domestic and international access to justice. Last summer, Haine-Roberts was an intern for Magistrate Judge Alan Kay in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where he prepared memoranda for the judge and his clerks on criminal cases, administrative appeals and other matters.
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