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PRACTICE AREAS: Litigation; tribal sovereignty and self-determination; historical data management

ADMISSIONS: Bar of the State of New York; Bar of the District of Columbia

ASSOCIATIONS: New York State Bar Association, Native American Bar Association of the District of Columbia

EDUCATION: Harvard Law School, J.D. (cum laude, 1997); University of Chicago, A.M. (1994); Columbia University, School of General Studies, B.A. Hons. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1992)

POSTS OF HONOR: American Bar Association, Graduate Visiting Fellow, 2004-2005; Law & Society Association, Graduate Workshop Participant, 2005; University of Chicago Human Rights Fellowship, 2004; Everett Public Service Internship Fellow, 2004; Newberry Library D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, Graduate Fellow, 2004; National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship, 2003; Research Assistant to Professor Lindsay G. Robertson, University of Oklahoma College of Law, 2000; Associate Editor, Harvard International Law Journal (1995-96); Researcher & Co-Editor, Research Report to the Assistant Secretary-General in Response to the Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and the Environment (1996)

PREVIOUS LEGAL EXPERIENCE: Clerk, Native American Rights Fund, Washington, DC (2004); Consultant to the General Council of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, 2001-2002; Assistant to the Attorney General and Special Counsel of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, 2000-2002; Election Observer, Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (Bosnia 1996, 1999; Kosovo 2000); Pro Bono Attorney, Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights, Asylum Project (1997-2000); Litigation Associate, Robinson Silverman Pearce Aronsohn & Berman LLP, New York (1997-1999); Clerk, Nauta Dutilh, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (1995)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Co-Instructor, "Federal Indian Law" (with Prof. A.T. Straus), University of Chicago, 2005; Guest lecturer, "Topics on Native America" (Profs. A.T. Straus & R. Fogelson), University of Chicago, 2003, 2004