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2011 – 2012 Steering Committee
Stevie Glaberson, Co-Chair sg2621@nyu.edu
Stevie is a native of Scarsdale, New York. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006 with a degree in Psychology, and spent the next four years in Seattle. During that time, Stevie spent two years at a PR agency working to get out the messages of the agency’s non-profit clients, and two years at a non-profit organization working to restructure Washington’s foster care system. Stevie returned to New York for law school in 2010, and then spent her 1L summer in Córdoba, Argentina, working for the Centro de Derechos Humanos y Ambiente, an environmental and human rights NGO. Stevie is also the co-chair of LawOm and a staff editor on the NYU Law Review. She loves hiking, biking, National Parks, and getting lost in the city.
Leah Trzcinski, Co-Chair leah.trzcinski@law.nyu.edu
Leah was born and raised in Michigan. She got her first degree in finance and accounting from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in 2004. After graduation she worked in investment banking at Bank of America for four years in New York and in London. As the economy crumbled, Leah left the working world for the safe haven of graduate school earning a Masters in International Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. She concentrated in Human Rights with a regional focus in Africa and spent her summer breaks interning with various NGOs in Ghana, Sierra Leone and Cameroon. Leah started NYU Law in 2010 and is excited to continue to work on international human rights issues with LSHR and various other student groups.
Liz Jordan, Education Chair and CHRGJ Liaison ebj219@nyu.edu
Liz was raised in Indianapolis, Indiana. She graduated from Yale in 2006 with degrees in political science and Latin American studies. Prior to starting at NYU, she worked in New York for Human Rights First for three years and spent a year in Spain researching universal jurisdiction and domestic human rights litigation. She wants to be a public defender.
Heather Webb, Symposium Chair hjw256@nyu.edu
Heather Webb is currently pursuing her LL.M. in International Legal Studies. Heather received her B.A in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and her J.D. from New York Law School. Following graduation, Heather worked as a corporate attorney at Cadwalader, Wickerhsam & Taft LLP in New York. Currently, Heather serves as an intern with Human Rights Watch doing disability rights work, and is also involved with one of LSHR's advocacy projects focusing on women's rights with MADRE. Heather is originally from northern California and loves hiking, reading, and going to the beach.
Abbey Augus, 1L Representative afa269@nyu.edu
Augus grew up in Oakland, California. She graduated from UC Davis with a degree in Community Development. She spent time in India, Bangladesh, Mexico and Guatemala working in health clinics and evaluating microfinance programs. After college Abbey became a Humanity in Action fellow at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland where she ran an after-school program for high-school students and assisted in immigration and housing clinics. Most recently, Abbey worked for the European Parliament in Brussels where she represented member of parliament Karin Kadenbach on South Asia Delegation and conducted research relevant to Kadenbach’s work on the biodiversity crisis. Simultaneously, Abbey worked for African Rights Monitor researching human rights violations in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia and writing reports for CAT, CEDAW and CCPR, which she presented to the UN in Geneva. Abbey likes to dance, travel, and be outdoors.
Meagan Froemming, 1L Representative mlf413@nyu.edu
Meagan was born and raised in central California, and graduated from Wellesley College in 2008 with a degree in history and Jewish studies. In 2010, she received her Master's in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University where she focused on humanitarian anthropology and post-conflict reconciliation. She took last year off from all the school stuff and spent it as a humanitarian aid worker in Afghanistan, working on projects running in Kabul City's IDP camps and in rural villages on the Northern and Eastern borders of the country. Meagan loves to travel, cook, run, and watch really terrible/amazing reality tv.
Wendy Liu, 1L Representative WL816@nyu.edu
Wendy grew up in Scarsdale, New York. She graduated from Princeton University in 2009 with a degree in political philosophy. After she graduated, she taught English and American Government at Zhejiang University of Technology in Hangzhou, China. She then returned to the U.S. to work at a boutique litigation firm in Manhattan. Wendy loves hiking and traveling abroad.
Will Henrich, Outreach Chair william.henrich@law.nyu.edu
Will is an Institute for International Law and Justice Scholar pursuing his interest in human rights. He graduated from Connecticut College in 2008 with a major in Philosophy and a minor in Linguistics. He wrote an honors thesis on the philosophy of Wittgenstein, and the School for International Training's Tibetan and Himalayan Studies Program let him study in India and Bhutan for one semester. After graduating, Will taught English at an elementary school in southern Thailand. In 2010, he returned to the United States to teach art at a center for adults with mental disabilities. This summer, he’ll work for Burmese migrants’ rights in Thailand with the Migrant Justice Programme.