I’m a rising second-year student at Columbia Law School interested in growing as a litigator.This summer, I worked at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York in the Civil Division, where I worked on affirmative and defensive cases involving the federal government.Before law school, I graduated with a journalism degree from Northwestern and spent a year writing about state politics in South Dakota. I hope to apply this interest in lawmaking to a future in the private and public sectors.