When Reda Taleb (McLean Class, 2015) talks about “giving back,” she isn’t just reciting a slogan — she’s living by example. The daughter of immigrants from Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, Taleb’s parents, along with her six older siblings, laid roots in Dearborn’s south end, an area known for its pollution-emitting factory smoke stacks and community of Arab Americans seeking the “American Dream.”
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One thing Cooley Law School Dean’s Fellow Troy Conti learned about himself working as a sheriff’s deputy after college was that he enjoyed being in the courtroom more than he liked patrolling the streets.
At an early age Maria Pierre had two responses when somebody asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up. She said she either wanted to be an attorney or a probation officer. She really didn’t know where probation officer came from, but after she graduated from college that was the first path she followed.
Krystle Cacci spent her whole life in government. Her mother was a judge, afterall. It was a natural progression to go into service. In college, she forged ahead in government policy by getting two master’s degrees focusing on public administration.
Ever since high school, Gabriella Logiudice imagined her fighting the good fight as a police officer. Not because she had a family in law enforcement, but because she had a desire to achieve justice and protect those most vulnerable, especially children.
The first thing Kristina Williams learned in college was that nursing wasn’t the career for her. The second thing she realized was that she didn’t really have another path pointing her in the right direction.
Kara Rosengren was born and raised in Michigan and spent most of her formative years in the small village of Holly. It was also where she fell in love with dance. She vividly recalls her very first dance class at six years old; she knew then and there that she was born to be a dancer. Her passion for dance followed her to Western Michigan University where she got her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Dance and then pursued what many would say was an illustrious dance career.
Cooley Dean’s Fellow Colby Weron has been thinking about law school ever since he was a freshman in high school. He was debating between going into law enforcement, like his mother, or becoming the first attorney in his family. Seeing his mother’s struggles with his father as a young boy tipped the scales on the side of a legal career.
Once Cooley Dean’s Fellow Francesca Camacho participated in her high school’s mock trial team, she realized the law was calling her.
Carter Lewis loved math and science growing up, so despite his father, John Lewis, being a lawyer, and his two siblings, Marco, and Camille, in law school, he decided he wanted to go in a different direction.
