Jann Dudley<\/strong>, Associate Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology <\/strong><\/p>\n She is a long-time member of the Legal Marketing Association (LMA), a frequent speaker at its events, a member of the Board of Directors of its Bay Area Chapter, and Treasurer-elect for its Western Region.<\/p>\n Most recently, Jann has been a consultant to the WorldWideWomen Foundation, in support of its mission to empower, educate and promote leadership among women and girls through its global resource center and annual Girls\u2019 Festival.<\/p>\n Jann has received numerous awards from the LMA for her campaigns and marketing work, including most recently, First Place for Promotional Piece (2016). Other awards include the LMA’s Rella Lossey Award (2015) and Member of the Year Award (2000).<\/p>\n “The BCLT faculty directors and staff are thrilled to welcome Jann Dudley to the Berkeley family,” says Jim Dempsey, BCLT executive director. “Her insights and energy will help us deepen and expand our relationships with the Bay Area law firms that support us and hire our graduates. Everyone at the law school will enjoy working with her.”<\/p>\n Purba Mukerjee ’15, Environmental Health Fellow, Environmental Law Clinic (ELC)<\/strong><\/p>\n Purba will join existing ELC fellows Britton Schwartz and Ana Vohryzek, who will job-share in the coming year and continue to advance ELC\u2019s environmental justice docket.\u201d Erin Dineen,\u00a0Alumni Engagement Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n Samantha will be working closely with Holly Fincke (Associate Director Annual Campaigns) in support of the four or five annual fund campaigns, with the goal of expanding discretionary support for the school and deepening our pipeline of major giving prospects. Samantha joins us from the Haas School, where she served as gift and data associate. Prior to coming to Berkeley, Samantha was development manager at Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation and program manager at RuffaloCODY. Samantha has extensive skills in making sense of complex data and is a natural fundraiser. Samantha holds a BA from University of the Pacific in Global Studies, Spanish and Anthropology, and spent her junior year at Pontifica Universidad Catolica del Ecuador. Atkinson\u2019s new gig represents a homecoming of sorts. A Stanford Law School fellow and lecturer, she earned her undergraduate degree in Dramatic Arts at UC Berkeley\u2014where she was a Regent\u2019s Scholar and received the Mark Goodson Prize for distinction in the performance arts.<\/p>\n At Harvard Law School, she served as a research and teaching assistant to Professor Elizabeth Warren, now a U.S. senator, on a consumer bankruptcy project and Bankruptcy Law course.<\/p>\n \u201cShe was a master teacher who always encouraged me to think about the law\u2019s real-life implications,\u201d Atkinson says. \u201cThat\u2019s been a huge influence in how I\u2019ve approached my scholarship.\u201d<\/p>\n Atkinson has enjoyed a rewarding and varied career, working as a special-education teacher, a clerk for two federal judges, and an associate with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in San Francisco. At Stanford, her research probed bankruptcy law\u2019s impact on the economically vulnerable.<\/p>\n \u201cBankruptcy Law concerns itself with helping people who are in a precarious financial position rebuild themselves,\u201d she says. \u201cWe often think about that in a middle- or upper-class context. But if bankruptcy is an important mechanism to let people reboot financially, why does it exclude people on the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum\u2014people whose financial troubles are often borne of bigger social issues?\u201d<\/p>\n Another strong pull for Atkinson: the recent explosion of consumer justice work at Berkeley Law. \u201cIt\u2019ll be great to get involved in that community,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.law.berkeley.edu\/bbb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/06\/Sohayla-Farman-1-150x150.jpg\")
The Robbins Collection is pleased to announce that Sohayla Farman will be joining us as our Publications & Communications Specialist. Sohayla, who has a B.A. in English, is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley. Prior to joining Robbins, Sohayla worked as an editorial assistant for UC Press, and she worked for UC Berkeley\u2019s alumni magazine,\u00a0California.<\/em>\u00a0In her free time, Sohayla enjoys reading the fantastically crowded narratives of Fyodor Dostoevsky, William Faulkner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Zadie Smith. Sohayla is a first-generation American, and she is the first in her family to have attended UC Berkeley.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.law.berkeley.edu\/bbb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/06\/JDudley-headshot-150x150.jpg\")
BCLT is pleased to welcome its new Associate Director Jann Dudley. Jann has extensive experience in law firm
\nmarketing, client development and branding. In her career, she has served as marketing manager or director at Orrick, Morgan Lewis, and Archer Norris, among other Bay area firms.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.law.berkeley.edu\/bbb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/06\/Purba_edit.jpg\")
Purba comes to us with a master\u2019s degree in chemistry in addition to her J.D., and a strong desire to focus on environmental health issues.\u00a0She will accordingly help to develop our docket related to reducing exposures to toxic chemicals, with ELC\u2019s usual focus on addressing root causes (bad policy, inadequate legislation, insufficiently incentivized innovation sector) rather than merely addressing symptoms (tort suits and Superfund cleanups).<\/p>\n
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\n<\/strong>Jen Griego, Associate Director of Alumni Engagement<\/strong><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.law.berkeley.edu\/bbb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2017\/06\/unnamed.jpg\")
<\/a>Jen will coordinate the global alumni engagement platform, with the goals of building affinity among alumni and with the school, and increasing philanthropic (annual fund) and activity-based support for the school. Jen has 25 years of experience as a senior creative marketing and communications director\u2013 starting with Power Bar, and most recently with Sungevity. She is a terrific project manager and planner. Jen holds a BA in Fine Arts from Vassar College and an MFA in Fine Arts from UC Berkeley.<\/p>\nErin will be working closely with Jen and the rest of the team on our global alumni engagement platform. Upon graduation from UC Berkeley in English, Erin spent 25 years in London, with Sony Music Europe and most recently with Soho Artists. Erin managed the international promotion and release of the likes of Oasis, Gipsy Kings, Jeff Buckley, Travis, Paul Weller, Harry Connick Jr., Suede, Teenage Fanclub, Primal Scream, Fatboy Slim, Judas Priest, to name a few. Adding a bit more glamour to her already glamorous life, Erin also brilliantly managed the Berkeley in Britain Alumni Club for at least 20 of those years. Many of you met Erin last year when she worked on our team briefly.<\/p>\nSamantha Zepeda, Annual Fund Officer<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nAbbye Atkinson<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/a>Abbye Atkinson will teach Contracts and consumer law courses such as Secured Transactions.<\/p>\n