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NALSWD PROFILES

Officers

Anna Scholin, President 
Anna Scholin, class of 2011 at Stanford University, is co-case management chair of the Social Security & Disability Pro Bono Project and co-founder of the Stanford Association of Law Students for Disability Rights. She worked her 1L summer developing disability claims for indigent clients, eventually representing four at full hearings. She will spend her 2L summer working in the Disability Rights division of San Francisco\'s Employment Law Center. Anna has a BA from the University of Chicago in Visual Art, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and with highest honors. Anna joined the disability community in January of her 1L year when she experienced sudden onset of severe rheumatoid arthritis, an autoimmune disorder that attacks the joints. 

Beth Kolbe, Vice President 
Beth Kolbe is currently a 1L at Stanford Law School. At Stanford, she serves as the Co- President of the Stanford Law Association and is an Associate Editor of the Stanford Law and Policy Review. Beth is also active in Stanford’s Social Security and Disability Pro Bono Project. She has been a member of the U.S. Paralympic Swim Team and has competed all over the world, most recently in the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games. She graduated with Honors from Harvard in 2008 with a Special Concentration degree in Health Care Policy. Originally a native from Ohio, Beth has been active in disability rights organizations since high school. Beth has a spinal cord injury from an accident at the age of 14. 

Stephanie Enyart, Board Liaison 
Stephanie Enyart was Co-Chair of the Steering Committee that launched the National Association of Law Students with Disabilities (NALSWD) and served as the first president of the organization. Today, she serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board of NALSWD and is organizing the launch of the first national organization for lawyers with disabilities. She is serving as a Commissioner on the ABA Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law. She recently won the Paul J. Hearne award given to emerging disability rights leaders. She will begin a Skadden fellowship this fall with Disability Rights Advocates. Stephanie graduated from UCLA School of Law in December 2008, where she was enrolled in the Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. At UCLA, she was an Editor-In- Chief of Recent Developments for the Women's Law Journal, Chair of the Disability Law Society, and was elected by the student body to UCLA's Student Bar Association where she served as the UCLA American Bar Association representative. During law school, Stephanie worked for California's Protection and Advocacy Inc. in Los Angeles, in the Civil Rights Litigation Project for the Disability Rights Legal Center, and at Disability Rights Advocates. She graduated from Stanford University in 1999 with a B.A. in English and a secondary major in Feminist Studies. Stephanie has a form of macular degeneration called Stargardts and grew up in Nipomo, California. 

Steven Udick, Chief Financial Officer 
Steven Udick is currently a 1L at SMU Dedman School of Law. He holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma. Prior to law school, Steve was an account executive at a top ten Fortune 500 company and served as the CFO/COO of a small retail start-up company. A resident of Texas, Steve has lived in seven different states and five different counties in his life. Steve was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder as an adult. 

Greg Oguss, Chief Information Officer 
Greg Oguss is currently an incoming student at the Northwestern University School of Law. He graduated Cum Laude from Columbia University with a BA in Economics. Greg was an Oakley Fellow at the USC School of Cinematic Arts where he earned an MA in Critical Studies. While at USC, he was an assistant instructor for undergraduate courses in media studies and wrote criticism for a variety of journals and websites. He has also worked as a corporate and litigation paralegal in New York and Los Angeles. In 1997, Greg was diagnosed with Type I Diabetes and Peripheral Neuropathy. 

Deepa Goraya, Membership Director 
Deepa Goraya is a 1L at the University of Michigan Law School. She graduated Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California, Los Angeles with a BA in English and a double minor in Classical Civilization and African American Studies. She became actively involved with the National Federation of the Blind as an undergraduate and helped build the West Los Angeles Chapter. She then served as secretary and eventually President of the California Association of Blind Students (CABS), the student division of the NFB of California. She established several student committees within CABS, particularly the Social Networking Committee to promote equal access to social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace, which has now become a national effort. Before starting law school, Deepa interned for Senator Christopher Dodd in Washington, DC. Deepa was born with Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) and is completely blind. 

Patrick Dennis, Conference Co-Director 
Patrick Dennis earned his BA in History and Humanities (Classical Civilizations) from the University of Oregon in 2003 and will be attending Lewis & Clark Law School. Prior to law school, Patrick worked in a number of fields including substantial time at credit unions and universities as well as shorts stints at a comedy club and veterinary clinic. Patrick joined the disability community in late 2004 when he was diagnosed with aggressive rheumatoid arthritis. 

Alan Chase, Conference Co-Director 
Alan Chase is a law student at Concord Law School. He graduated from The University of North Carolina at Pembrooke in 2008 with a BS in Special Education. Alan is a member of the North Carolina Disabled Young People’s Collective and the Governor Morehead School Alumni Association Board of Directors. He also serves on the North Carolina Post Secondary Education Alliance and the North Carolina Emergency Transition Planning Team. Alan enjoys helping people with disabilities to become better advocates and more included in their communities. In his free time, he likes to go to the beach, play video games, watch television, and spend time with his friends. 

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