J.D. CO-CHAI R S
Allison Houston Frank Williams
Graduating Class Gift Each year at commencement, members of Columbia Law School’s graduating class present a class gift to the Law School as they transition from students to alumni— a tradition since the late 1990s to support the students who will follow in their footsteps. Class gift co-chairs and committee members work diligently throughout the spring to engage all of their classmates in this effort, which consistently results in a tremendous annual class participation rate. This year, as the co-chairs began forming committees for this time-honored effort, they, along with their classmates, teachers, families, neighbors, and friends across the globe, faced the onset of a life-altering pandemic. Acknowledging the graduates’ fortitude, flexibility, ingenuity, and compassion, especially during their challenging final semester, Columbia Law School alumnus Li Lu ’95—one of the principal organizers of the Tiananmen Square protests in China and the first student to earn simultaneous degrees from the Law School, Columbia College, and Columbia Business School—made a gift “in honor of every member of the Columbia Law School Class of 2020.” This gift will help alleviate the unanticipated financial needs of Columbia Law students that have been brought on by this global crisis.
LL.M. CO-CHAI R S
Alice Gardoll Stephen Owusu
J.D. COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Jenny Ange Katy Berk Chenyu Hao Samantha Hawkins-Bromberg Vendarryl Jenkins Alexander Kim Jay Pak Malina Welman
LL.M. COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Bamisope Adeyanju Lucas Brandão Borges Caiado Frank Shihong Hong Yusuf Kumtepe Felix Oketch Teresa Pastore Theresa Scharff Keun-Chul Song Anna Silvia Tinelli
CLASS OF 2020
Gabriela Assis Abdalla Fajnzylber, LL.M. Meredith Diana Elion Abrams Maria Stephanie Acosta 56 ANNUAL REPORT 2019
