We are very pleased to announce that Sarah Mazzochi and Randa Zakhour will be joining us this summer as fellows. Their biographies are as follows:

Sarah Mazzochi
Sarah Mazzochi graduated from Brown University with a degree in History in 2006. She currently attends Roger Williams University School of Law and will graduate in May, 2010. As an undergrad, she was a Transfer Student Counselor and Orientation Leader as well as Vice President of her sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta.

While in law school, Sarah serves as the current President of Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Vice President of the American Civil Liberties Union and is a board member for the American Constitution Society. During the Spring semester alone, the ACLU has started work on a prisoner’s rights handbook, brought a debate on the Second Amendment to campus, sponsored a “movie night” with the law school deans on civil liberty issues, brought a state representative to address probation reform in Rhode Island and had an immigration law attorney speak to the student body. She also recently competed in the school wide 1L Moot Court Competition where she was a semifinalist. While taking a year off between undergrad and law school, Sarah was a Reference Librarian in south Florida.

Randa Zakhour
Randa Zakhour is currently a law student at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia. Randa graduated from the University of South Carolina in 2007, where she received her bachelor degree in Advertising with a minor in Business Administration. In college, she was involved with the Student Advertising Federation, where she served as secretary and trip coordinator, and the Golden Key International Honor Society, where she was public relations chair person. Randa also was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society.

Randa receives her love for learning from her parents, who are both educators. The daughter of an Italian-American mother and a Syrian father, Randa has been able to experience diversity within her own family. Randa thrives on diversity and enjoys learning about other people’s view points on matters.

In law school Randa is involved in the International Law Society, Alternative Dispute Resolution Board, and the Student Intellectual Property Law Association. She is currently the events co-chair of the Student Intellectual Property Law Association. She also plans to pursue a career in Intellectual Property upon graduation.