Current Scholars
Class of 2026
Charlotte LeBarron ’26 is passionate about financial regulation and securities law policy, particularly ESG disclosure, corporate compliance and transparency, and accounting industry reform. Prior to law school, Charlotte worked as a Certified Public Accountant at BDO’s Boston Audit Practice. Charlotte then migrated to the Institute for Corporate Governance and Finance at NYU School of Law where she researched corporate and securities and participated in public policymaking with Former SEC Commissioner and NYU Law Professor Robert J. Jackson, Jr. In 2022, Charlotte’s research assistance was named in Honisgberg, Hu, and Jackson’s Stanford Law Review paper on misconduct in the insurance industry,Regulatory Arbitrage and the Persistence of Financial Misconduct. Her policymaking work includes drafting a recommendation for the SEC’s Investor Advisory Committee calling for reform in accounting standard setting. She has also helped draft several public comments and SEC rule-making petitions on topics such as the SEC’s authority to mandate climate-related disclosure for public companies and the need for enhanced human capital accounting disclosure. When a number of these projects were later discussed in Congress, Charlotte traveled to Washington and prepared academic experts for testimony before the House and Senate.Charlotte graduated from the Boston College Carroll School of Management in 2019 with dual degrees in Accounting and Communication and grew up in the rural “Hilltown” region of Western Massachusetts.Charlotte spent her 1L summer interning in the SEC's Enforcement division in Washington, D.C.
Humphrey Shen '26 is passionate about health policy and antitrust law, especially as it relates to health care access, affordability, and equity. Prior to law school, he served as a Policy Lead at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) where he drafted CMS Innovation Center policies focused on value-based payment model design, health equity, and Medicare benefit enhancements. Prior to working at CMS, Humphrey was a policy research assistant at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy in DC, where he researched and co-authored several publications on health equity, federal and state health care payment reform, and artificial intelligence adoption in health systems. During his 1L summer, Humphrey was a summer law clerk at the Federal Trade Commission, Office of Chair Lina Khan. At NYU Law, Humphrey is also a staff editor for the Journal of Legislation and Public Policy and Co-President of the Health Law and Policy Society. Humphrey is originally from the Los Angeles area and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021 with a B.A. in Health and Societies.
Sam Ozer-Staton ‘26 is passionate about voting rights and pro-democracy reforms. He is also interested in housing policy, tenants’ rights, and urban law. Prior to law school, he worked for nearly four years as a writer and podcast producer at Vox Media, where he wrote a weekly legal newsletter and served as the editorial producer for former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara’s podcast, “Stay Tuned with Preet.” He also managed and edited a legal contributor program that featured constitutional scholar Melissa Murray and former U.S. Attorneys Joyce Vance and Barb McQuade. Before Vox, Sam worked as a field organizer on Democratic political campaigns, including Senator Jon Tester’s 2018 re-election race in Montana. Sam is currently a clinical extern at the Brennan Center, where his work is focused on election certification disputes. At NYU Law, he is also a Moelis Fellow for Urban Law & Public Affairs and a staff editor for the Review of Law & Social Change. Sam spent his 1L summer working on housing and land use issues at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office. He is from San Francisco and graduated from Lewis & Clark College in 2017 with a B.A. in Political Science.
Hart Ayoob ’26 is passionate about equitable social policy, civil rights, and democratic reform. At NYU, Hart is a research assistant for Professor Deborah Archer, a Competitions Executive Editor of the NYU Law Moot Court Board, and a client advocate with the Parole Advocacy Project. He is currently interning with the ACLU's Racial Justice Program, focused on challenges to anti-DEI policies enacted by the Trump Administration. Hart spent his 2L summer with the ACLU Voting Rights Project in New York and his 1L summer with the Mississippi Center for Justice's Economic Justice Campaign in Jackson, Mississippi. As a 2L, he completed internships with the Brennan Center for Justice’s Democracy Program and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. In May 2025, the American Constitution Society (ACS) named Hart a Next Generation Leader following his term as Co-President of NYU Law’s ACS chapter. Before law school, he worked as a Paralegal Advocate at Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS), where he served clients as their primary advocate in accessing COVID-era welfare benefits, lobbied for a permanent expansion of the federal Child Tax Credit, and worked with state and local leaders to implement targeted guaranteed income programs. While at GBLS, Hart was selected for a Racial Justice Institute Fellowship, spending a year working on racial equity policy through the Shriver Center on Poverty Law in Chicago. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Hart graduated from Boston College in 2020 with dual degrees in Social Policy/Community Advocacy and Faith, Peace, & Justice Studies.
Class of 2027
José Guillermo Gutiérrez ‘27 is interested in government accountability, surveillance technology, and civil rights and civil liberties issues in national security. In the summer after his first year, José interned at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University and was a research assistant for Professors Adam Cox and Samuel Issacharoff. He is co-president of the Latinx Law Students Association, an editor on Law Review, and a student advocate in the Regulatory Policy Clinic, and will be part of the Rule of Law Practice Lab in the spring. Before law school, José was a research and program associate in the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program, where he focused on law enforcement’s surveillance of social media to target constitutionally protected activity and marginalized communities, as well as efforts to reform the Department of Homeland Security. He also served on the negotiation and executive committees of the Brennan Center’s staff union. Before joining the Brennan Center, he was a research volunteer on the Biden-Harris presidential transition and a domestic policy intern on the Biden-Harris campaign. José was born and raised in Mexico City, and is a graduate of the University of Southern California.
Sarah Wheaton ’27 is interested in the intersection of administrative law and economic policy, particularly as it relates to helping low-income families and communities. Before coming to NYU, she worked in economic policy for the U.S. Department of Commerce and the White House Council of Economic Advisers. As an Economist at the Department of Commerce’s Office of the Undersecretary for Economic Affairs, she contributed economic analysis to the department’s regulatory work, assisted with implementation of place-based initiatives in the CHIPS and Science Act, and helped brief the Secretary on the state of the economy. Prior to that, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Council of Economic Advisers, where she covered a wide range of topics including labor, the social safety net, macroeconomics, health, and climate change. Sarah spent her 1L summer doing research on distributional cost-benefit analysis for Professor Ricky Revesz and on tax expenditures for Professor Lily Batchelder. At NYU, she is a staff editor on the Law Review, a board member of the Law and Government Society, and an extern for New York State Senator Andrew Gounardes. Sarah graduated from Swarthmore College in 2021 with High Honors in Economics and Political Science and grew up in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Mary Lewis ‘27 is interested in tax, clean energy, and climate policy. She is particularly passionate about tax credit design, energy regulation, electricity market design, and voter protection and election law. Prior to law school, she served as a Climate Policy Advisor at the Department of the Treasury where she worked to implement the Inflation Reduction Act clean energy tax credits. She also worked for nearly four years in the energy storage and clean energy industry where she led the Americas policy and market strategy for Fluence Energy, a leading U.S. energy storage company. She managed the state and federal policy outlook for the company, and developed the digital growth strategy as part of the company’s successful 2021 IPO. Additionally, she worked as a management consultant for two years in San Francisco. Mary has also worked as a Voter Protection Data Analyst on the Biden for President 2020 campaign and as an Analytics Lead at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee during the 2022 midterms. She was a Bay Area Fellow in 2022 for the Clean Energy Leadership Institute. At law school, in addition to being an FPP Scholar, she is an editor for the Tax Law Review and an extern with the State Legislative Externship. She worked as a Research Assistant for the Institute for Policy Integrity during her 1L summer. Mary graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with an Economics degree from Vanderbilt University and is from Charlotte, NC.
Tresa Joseph ’27 is interested in consumer protection and antitrust law, particularly as they relate to issues of economic mobility. Prior to law school, she worked at the White House National Economic Council as a Senior Policy Advisor, where she helped advance efforts to reduce hidden consumer fees, expand access to capital for underserved entrepreneurs, and launch the federal government’s first-ever free tax filing service. Before joining the NEC, she worked at the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, focused on pre-trial case processing and pre-arraignment diversion programs. At NYU, Tresa is a staff editor for the Journal of Legislation and Public Policy and serves on the board of the Antitrust and Competition Law Society. She spent her 1L summer at the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office where she worked on regulatory policy and consumer protection matters. Tresa graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in Political Science and was born and raised in New Jersey.
MaryAnn Placheril ’27 is interested in racial and economic justice, particularly in housing, tech, and consumer protection. Before NYU, she worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. At the CFPB MaryAnn primarily worked on data science and strategy for racial bias enforcement cases and supervision exams. She led the Bureau’s data analysis for novel appraisal bias cases and developed less discriminatory alternatives to credit models as a part of machine learning/AI exams. She also worked on various policy and regulatory efforts including the Overdraft Rule. She has worked previously at Brookings Metro, the Eviction Lab, at Senator Bill Nelson’s (D-FL) office. At NYU Law, MaryAnn is a staff editor for the Review of Law and Social Change, an advocate with Parole Advocates, and a Scholarship Co-chair of Law and Political Economy. She spent her 1L summer in her home state of Florida at the Broward County Public Defender’s Office and as a research assistant to Lily Batchelder and Noah Rosenblum. MaryAnn graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Public and International Affairs and minors in African American Studies and Statistics and Machine Learning.
Class of 2028
Quentin Dupouy '28 is committed to advancing economic justice and equitable social policy. Before law school, he worked for two progressive Members of Congress on issues including tax justice, social welfare, health care, and civil rights. Most recently, as Senior Policy Advisor to Representative Jared Huffman, he advanced legislation to increase affordable housing, improve access to education, and enhance consumer protections. He also founded the Stop Project 2025 Task Force to coordinate a legal, legislative, and political strategy to counteract the regressive Project 2025 policy agenda. In his previous roles, he crafted legislation to advance President Biden’s Billionaire Minimum Income Tax, protect disability rights, and expand access to food and health care in low-income communities. Before working on Capitol Hill, he received a Fulbright Grant to live and work in Benin. Quentin graduated Phi Beta Kappa and with honors from the University of Chicago. He is a lifelong New Yorker.