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Kamilah Moore ’19 is chair of California’s Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans.

Whether founding a company that designs and manufactures innovative soccer gear or launching new businesses in the sports apparel and digital worlds, Storelli says his Columbia Law education has helped make him a versatile, astute, and judicious CEO. 

The deputy for the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York always knew she would serve her country. The only question was how.

Temi Adeniji ’12 is managing director of Warner Music South Africa and senior vice president for strategy, sub-Saharan Africa.

Gert Jan van den Bergh ’91 LL.M. seeks justice for artworks and their owners. 

Oscar Lopez is the interim director of the Education Advocacy Clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center in Berkeley, California.

Jin Hee Lee ’00 is the senior deputy director of litigation and director of strategic initiatives for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) in New York City.

Chanler Langham ’04 is a Houston-based trial lawyer handling complex commercial litigation. He is a partner at the litigation boutique firm Susman Godfrey.

Long before intersectionality became a watchword, Florynce Kennedy ’51 identified the confluence of race and gender discrimination, bringing to second-wave feminism a Black voice that was impossible not to hear. But first, she took on Columbia Law School.

The aviation disaster litigator won justice from Libya for the bombing of Pan Am 103 and wants the same for 9/11 families.