{"id":199158,"date":"2023-05-14T18:57:09","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T22:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=199158"},"modified":"2023-05-22T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-22T16:01:24","slug":"meet-some-of-the-uconn-law-2023-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2023\/05\/meet-some-of-the-uconn-law-2023-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Some of the UConn Law 2023 Graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get to know eight of this year’s graduates:<\/p>\n

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Stevie Della-Giustina<\/a> believes the legal profession offers a unique opportunity to be of service to others and to help bring justice for those who might not expect it.<\/p>\n

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Mumina Egal<\/a> found that reaching out to upper-level students, professors, and alumni gave her invaluable knowledge and enriched her experience.<\/p>\n

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Madara Me\u013c\u0146ika<\/a>‘s LLM from UConn School of Law is her third law degree. She has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in law from the University of Latvia.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Messina<\/a>\u00a0 enrolled in law school after 15 years of working at a non-profit, motivated in part by her young daughter.<\/p>\n

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Joe Miller<\/a> is acutely aware of how the law can shape students\u2019 lives, after working at a magnet high school in Hartford that came out of the\u00a0Sheff v. O\u2019Neill<\/em> school desegregation lawsuit.<\/p>\n

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Juli\u00e1n Qui\u00f1ones Reyes<\/a>\u00a0 has worked as a paralegal in the public sector for nearly a decade and wanted to advance his career and contribute more to the public interest field.<\/p>\n

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Zain Sarmad<\/a> will bring memories of following the UConn men’s basketball national championship back to the University of Nottingham in the U.K.<\/p>\n

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Bryce Simmons<\/a> appreciated how quickly she was able to get to know people and feel part of the community on UConn Law’s close-knit campus.<\/p>\n

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Photos: 100th UConn Law Commencement<\/a><\/p>\n

Video: 2023 UConn Law Commencement<\/a><\/p>\n

Class of 2023 Celebrated at School of Law\u2019s 100th Commencement<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The UConn School of Law celebrated 218 graduates on May 14, including 156 who received JD and 62 awarded LLMs. Those graduates came from across both the United States and the world, bringing a diversity of experiences to UConn Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":199368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1857],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2418],"class_list":["post-199158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 08:07:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199158"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229262,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199158\/revisions\/229262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/199368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199158"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=199158"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=199158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}