YONG HO (ALLEN) SONG: My HLS experience
has been life-changing.
MARTINA TIKU: Life-changing.
EMILY MIGLIORE: Extraordinary.
OLIVIA BARKET: Enriching.
PRINCESS DAISY AKITA: Unforgettable.
ZAINAB HASHMI: Exhausting.
RADHE PATEL: Inspiring.
ARTHUR RODRIGUES DALMARCO: Inspiring.
ANDHIKA P. SUDARMAN: Inspirational.
HANNAH KANNEGIESTER: Challenging.
MICHAEL GUGGENHEIM: Challenging.
EDUARDO ESPINOSA DE LOS MONTEROS PEREDA: Resilience.
MADELINE SALINAS: Opportunity.
NIKU JAFARNIA: Opportunity.
DANIEL MOUBAYED: This place is empowering.
MARTINA TIKU: HLS has really encouraged me
and enabled me to see that we can make change,
and it's important to do so.
CAROLINE SHINKLE: To make a positive lasting impact
on the world.
J. JOSEPH MONTGOMERY: We obviously
have the foundation of the law.
But we also have the foundation of how to think about the law.
ANNA LUKINA: I definitely feel like I have so many new ideas
and so many new ways to frame them.
OPE ADEBANJO: It's really taught me
how much justice isn't an end goal, it's really a process.
NIKU JAFARNIA: I'm excited to take
what I've spent the last few years here learning and working
on and bringing it back to the communities I came here
to serve.
YONG HO (ALLEN) SONG: To serve the people that desperately
need our help and support.
EDUARDO ESPINOSA DE LOS MONTEROS PEREDA:
I want to bring the law to people and places that didn't
have access to it before.
AMADA BRADLEY: It is a privilege for us to be lawyers.
It is a privilege for us to be able to go into the court room
and advocate on behalf of clients.
DANIEL MOUBAYED: I'm most excited to see
all the good that my classmates and I do in the worlds.
J. JOSEPH MONTGOMERY: Where we go next
will almost certainly be to change the world,
and I'm just excited to see how.
YANG (BERTON) WANG: Harvard Law School opens a door for me
to embrace all the possibilities in life
and to do what I thought was impossible.
OLIVIA BARKET: I'm excited to do what I always
dreamed about doing, to be an advocate for others,
to have the tools and the power and the ability
to change people's lives.
Which is why I went to law school in the first place.
DANIEL EGEL-WEISS: I'm appreciative to Harvard Law
School for allowing me to understand the law much more
broadly.
But I always want to keep in mind
what it's like to not understand it,
so that I can help people who need the help.
ZAINAB HASHMI: Commencement is a highly cherished
milestone for me.
DANIEL EGEL-WEISS: Culmination of a lot of hard work,
not just on my part but on my family's part.
MADELINE SALINAS: Taking a moment
to share how grateful I am for all the incredible people who
have made the past three years so fantastic.
AMANDA BRADLEY: My family members, my mentors,
my past teachers.
ONYI IYIZOBA: Being alive and a young mom of two little girls.
This has been a huge sacrifice on their part,
and I am excited I am able to realize one of my life goals
and be an example for them.
ARTHUR RODRIGUES DALMARCO: Commencement
means the conclusion of a period marked by dedication and also
resilience.
CAROLINE SHINKLE: The beginning of a new and exciting
professional chapter.
AGA REGIEC: And it's definitely a beginning
of many future opportunities to collaborate together
and to share our experiences.
DANIEL EGEL-WEISS: My favorite memories
are sitting with my professors in office hours
and just getting to know them as people.
DANIEL MOUBAYED: I'll miss waking up every morning
and knowing I could go to the park and find my best friends.
AGA REGIEC: When I entered the Harvard Law School
library for the first time.
MICHAEL GUGGENHEIM: Bar trivia night
or randomly getting burgers at camp Kahan.
ANNA LUKINA: The first snow in Cambridge.
PRINCESS DAISY AKITA: My AIMS team
and I sitting in the exact same room for 36 hours in a row.
It wasn't a pretty sight.
HANNAH KANNEGIETER: The DC trip with the Women's Law
Association.
EMILY MIGLIORE: I think my favorite memory
would be when I was in HIRC, the immigration and refugee clinic.
Getting to tell the family, you know, like,
your son got asylum.
MARTINA TIKU: Defenders has been one of the highlights of my law
school experience.
I'm so grateful to have gotten to be a part of that community.
J. JOSEPH MONTGOMERY: One thing I'll miss for my time
here is the community.
MADELINE SALINAS: Community.
RADHE PATEL: The community.
ANNA LUKINA: The ability to discuss my ideas with so many
brilliant mentors and peers.
YANG (BERTON) WANG: I think it's the inclusive and diversified
culture.
PRINCESS DAISY AKITA: Rigor of classroom debate,
the discussions.
It's why I came to law school.
EMILY MIGLIORE: As impressive as, you know,
their intellect and your careers are going to be,
is the degree of empathy that they exhibit.
MICHAEL GUGGENHEIM: They are humble and they're generous
and they're kind.
MADELINE SALINAS: Whether it's studying for final
or asking for advice on something
personal or professional, I feel like I
found friends and mentors here who really have my back.
MARTINA TIKU: I definitely would have not
been able to get through this experience without them.
And I definitely will miss having them
in my life every single day.
RADHE PATEL: Everyone is so interested in, like,
so many fascinating topics.
OLIVIA BARKET: Anything you can really imagine,
there's somebody there who has done it and was most likely
the best at it.
ARTHUR RODRIGUES DALMARCO: To me, in the current times, what
community actually means is the union and the resilience
that we have shown.
MICHAEL GUGGENHEIM: Going remote so suddenly
was challenging because it felt like a sudden amputation
of our community.
AMADA BRADLEY: The past few months have not been
what we expected them to be.
YANG (BERTON) WANG: We supported each other
during this unprecedented time.
PRINCESS DAISY AKITA: Seeing faculty members
go out of their way to support students during this time.
MADELINE SALINAS: I appreciate the community and the people
that I found in HLS.
It's been incredible how much I've
been able to stay in touch with that, even in quarantine.
MARTINA TIKU: I think everyone's really
done an amazing job of checking in
on people, uplifting one another,
supporting each other virtually.
J. JOSEPH MONTGOMERY: I'm just so
thankful every day that we had the ability to use Zoom,
like we do.
That we had professors that were willing to change up
their lesson plans.
That we had students that were willing to change up
their styles of learning.
OPE ADEBANJO: And to see that they're doing OK,
that they're able to still come to class
and be as involved in discussion.
It's like, OK, if they can get through this,
I can get through this.
RADHE PATEL: It's just like a testament to our connectivity
and our resiliency, that we've still
found ways to come together.
DANIEL MOUBAYED: No challenge is insurmountable.
No dream or goal is unattainable.
AMADA BRADLEY: We've been able to thrive.
ZAINAB HASHMI: I'm confident we will
get through this difficult time and come out stronger.