By Haley Duschinski
Director of the Center for Law, Justice & Culture
We are very proud to recognize and celebrate the achievements of OHIO students graduating with the Center for Law, Justice & Culture’s Certificate in Law, Justice & Culture:
Gabrielle Bacha graduated with a major in Political Science. She was Student Senate President in 2015-16. Her senior honors thesis, Individual and Community Rights Within University Conduct Systems, focused on student conduct systems and the rights of individuals going through that system as well as the rights of the community in that system. She will attend the M.A. program in Higher Education at Loyola University in Chicago in fall 2016.
- Eric Boomershine graduated with majors in Political Science Pre-Law and Sociology – Criminology and with a minor in Psychology.
- Katie Conlon graduated with a major in History (HTC), a minor in Political Science, and a certificate in War and Peace Studies. She received the annual Leadership Award from the Honors Tutorial College. Her thesis, “Neither Men nor Completely Women”: The 1980 Armagh Dirty Protest and Republican Resistance in Northern Ireland Prisons, examined collective tactics of resistance among republican women prisoners of Armagh Gaol and their 1980 No-Wash Protest in the context of the Troubles. She will attend the M.A. program at the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice, Queens University in Belfast, Northern Ireland in fall 2016. She has received the Rotary Peace Fellowship to fund her graduate studies.
- Caleb Covert graduated with a major in Sociology Pre-Law.
- Alexander Davis graduated with a major in Political Science Pre-Law and a minor in Psychology. He was Associate Director of Students Defending Students and Learning Community Leader of the Law, Justice & Culture Pre-Law Learning Community in fall 2015. He will attend New York Law School in fall 2016.
- Destiny Fordham graduated with a major in Sociology – Criminology.
- Luke Kubacki graduated with majors in Political Science and Global Studies – Africa and a minor in English. He is moving to New York City in fall 2016.
- Phalen Kuckuck graduated with a major in Sociology – Criminology and a minor in Political Science. He will be Campaign Manager for the campaign of Riley Moore for West Virginia.
- Philip Moncla graduated with a major in Political Science. He carried out an internship with Southeast Ohio Legal Services in summer 2015. He will attend the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in fall 2016.
- Angelina Moore graduated with a major in Business Administration (HTC). Her thesis, Attorney-Client Privilege and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, looks at the complications associated with in-house counsel SOX whistleblower cases. Angelina served on the Center for Student Legal Services Board of Directors, the Ohio Women in Business Executive Board, among others. She will attend the University of Chicago Law School in fall 2016.
- Madeline “Maddie” Rettig graduated with majors in Anthropology and Political Science Pre-Law. She received the Anthropology Outstanding Graduating Senior Award, and she carried out an internship with Marion Correctional Institution in 2014-15. She is working for Marion’s re-entry program, Healing Broken Circles, as an Outside Event Coordinator this summer. She will attend law school at the Moritz College of Law at The Ohio State University with a full-tuition Michael E. Moritz Merit Scholarship in Law in fall 2016.
- Juliana Scheiderer graduated with majors in Spanish and Journalism News and Information. She was a member of the OHIO Mock Trial Team. She is an Account Coordinator at Weirick Communications Inc. in Columbus.
- Lydia Weiant graduated with a major in Anthropology (HTC) and a minor in Political Science. Her undergraduate honors thesis, When Law Falls Short: Informal Justice in West Belfast, focused on how local actors claim authority over crime, conflict, and crisis as they work to provide access to justice outside the parameters of the formal legal system in West Belfast, Northern Ireland. She is moving to Asheville, NC, for a gap year working for a backpacking organization based out of Clayton, GA, before attending law school in the fall of 2017.
- Sarah Welch graduated with a major in Music (piano), minors in Mathematics and Physics, and a certificate in Italian Studies. A member of the OHIO Mock Trial Team, she received the Best Attorney Award at the opening round competition as well as the regional competition of the American Mock Trial Association.
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