From Muslim to Arab and South Asian groups, to New York and that “state up north,” Amna Akbar has put her lawyering skills to use in many communities. And this fall she’ll be bringing them to students at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law as a visiting clinical professor of law. After providing legal services to immigrant battered women and then representing men held by the United States in the extraordinary rendition and secret detention program, Akbar saw U.S. national security policies were encroaching on the rights of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian communities not just abroad, but at home as well. It was then that Akbar decided to combine her commitment in community legal services with her interest in critically examining national security policies. ››

While a score of her classmates are probably settled at law firms, Briana Seagriff Mascaro ’10 opted to work somewhere that has more flying carpets and mice than an ordinary office. Mascaro,a labor relations manager for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. located in Lake Bueno Vista, Fla., joked of “The Most Magical Place on Earth,” “I drank the kool-aid long ago” because she worked for the company even before law school. As an undergrad at Cornell University, Mascaro landed a six-month internship with Disney’s employee relations department, which introduced her to in-house equal employment opportunity investigations. “This is what led me to law school and is directly related to how I landed my current job,” she said. ››