Impact Scholarship
Impact Scholarship
The Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship annually awards one merit-based scholarship to a rising 3L law student or an incoming LLM student with a demonstrated interest and/or achievement in using the law to create innovative solutions in emerging markets through social entrepreneurship, impact investing, and/or sustainable development. This scholarship provides $10,000 in partial tuition support for the full-time JD or master’s degree programs.
2025-26 Impact Scholar
María Salomé Perea LLM '26
María Salomé Perea is an LLM Candidate in Corporation Law at NYU School of Law, and a recipient of both the Dean’s Graduate Scholar and Impact Scholarship awards. Her focus is the intersection of corporate law, finance, and sustainability. At NYU, she serves as a graduate editor for the Journal of Law & Business and a research assistant for the Securities Enforcement Empirical Database (SEED) of the NYU Pollack Center. Before her LLM, María spent four years as an Associate in the Corporate and M&A practice at Cuatrecasas in Colombia, advising on cross-border M&A and private equity transactions across various sectors, with a concentration in infrastructure, renewable energy, and environmental services sectors. She was also an active member of the Cuatrecasas' Pro Bono team. María earned her LLB from Universidad de los Andes, graduating in the top 5% of her class. During her undergraduate studies, she was involved in human rights research and was a member of the Environmental Legal Clinic.
Previous Impact Scholars
- Laura Salazar Alvarez LLM ’25
- Odunugaoluwa (Tumi) Odunuga LLM ’24
- Natalia Paola Guillen LLM ’22
- Abiodun M. Rufai LLM ’21
- Viola Echebima LLM ’20