BIRNBAUM WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP NETWORK

Alicia Berenyi and Nonny Onyekweli: “Women in Hypermasculine Worlds”

This podcast was recorded in February 2017.

Alicia Berenyi ’16 earned her JD from NYU Law. During law school she worked for the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr. Prior to law school, she spent three years as a paralegal in the criminal enforcement program of the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. She graduated from Columbia University with a BA in urban studies and economics in 2009. 

 

 

Nonny Onyekweli ’16 is an associate in the complex litigation and trials department at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. She served as a 2016-17 fellow with the Policing Project, where she served as the program manager for the Project’s work with the Cleveland Police Monitoring Team. She graduated with a JD from NYU Law, where she was part of the inaugural class of Policing Project externs. While in law school, she worked for McDermott Will & Emery and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Additionally, she interned in the Immigration Law Unit of the Legal Aid Society and for the Ashoka Youth Venture Program. Onyekweli received her BA in Psychology from the University of Maryland in 2012. Prior to law school, she assisted detained immigrants through the Capitol Area Immigrants Rights Coalition.