Education
Harvard Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1990)
Harvard Law Review:
Supervising Editor and Managing Board Member
Member, Black Law Students Association
Princeton University (A.B., 1985)
Daily Princetonian:
Chairman, Editor-in-Chief
Princeton Student Achievement Award, 1984
United States Department of State Superior Honor Award, 1995
The New York Times Publisher’s Award, 1985
New York Press Club, Cub Reporter of the Year Award, 1986
Princeton University Frederick Douglass Award, 1985
United States News & World Report, Lawrence Scholar, 1983 and 1984
Fairbanks & Vincent,
Special Counsel, 2006-2008
Independent Producer, 2005-Present
Collaboration with Sony producers on “SpinDoctor” television pilot, 2007
“Commander-in-Chief,” Consulting Producer, 2005
"Alias,” Co-Producer, Executive Story Editor, 2002-2004
“The Practice,” Staff Writer, 2001-2002
O’Melveny & Myers, LLP,
Special Counsel, Litigation Department, 1997-2000
Counselor to the Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, 1997-1997
Member, Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, United States State Department, 1997-1997
United States State Department, Special Assistant to the Legal Adviser, 1993-1995
Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. (now Disney/ABC, Inc.),
Assistant to the General Counsel – Senior Vice President, 1992-1993
Law clerk to the Hon. Justice Thurgood Marshall and Hon. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor,
United States Supreme Court, 1991-1992
Law Clerk to the Hon. William A. Norris,
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1990-1991
The New York Times,
Reporter, 1985-1987
California Finance Committee, Obama for America, 2007
Princeton University Board of Trustees, 1999-2003
Member, American Bar Association:
International Litigation Committee, Co-Chair, 1998-2000
Central & Eastern European Law Initiative, Advisory Committee Member, 1997-1999
Member, International Human Rights Law Group (now Global Rights Group),
Executive Committee, Board Member, 1997-2000
Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs,
Advisory Council Member, 1986-2000
Council on Foreign Relations, Term Member, 1993-1998
Member, The State Bar of New York; Member, The State Bar of District of Columbia