President

Name: Carlos Eduardo Julca

Year: 2011

Hometown: Miami, Florida

Hobbies: Tournament Soccer, Latin American Politics, Tailoring

3 Goals for LLSA:

1. Find New and Creative Ways to Promote Hispanic/Latino Cultural Awareness at the Law School
2. Expand the Array of Services Offered by LLSA to the Latino Community in Madison
3. Strengthen the Unity of LLSA

Quote:

¨It´s not about the shoes.
It´s about knowing where youre going,
Not forgetting where you started.
Its about having the courage to fail,
Not breaking when youre broken,
Taking everything youve been given,
And making something better.
It’s about work before glory
And whats inside of you.
It´s doing something they say you can’t.
It´s not about the shoes.
It´s about what you do in them.
It´s about being who you were born to be.¨

- Michael Jordan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v1S7J2dzJI&feature=related

Vice President of Academic Affairs

Name: Aaron Seligman

Year: 2011

Hometown: Madison, Wisconsin

Hobbies: Ultimate frisbee, tennis, basketball, politics, grocery shopping

3 Goals for LLSA:

1. Provide more individualized study/exam preparation advice based on learning styles and preferences
2. Hold workshops on class/professor selection
3. Execute fun study breaks during exam period

Quote:

“Ten-word answers can kill you in political campaigns. They’re the tip of the sword. Here’s my question: What are the next ten words of your answer? Your taxes are too high? So are mine. Give me the next ten words. How are we going to do it? Give me ten after that, I’ll drop out of the race right now. Every once in a while… every once in a while, there’s a day with an absolute right and an absolute wrong, but those days almost always include body counts. Other than that, there aren’t very many unnuanced moments in leading a country that’s way too big for ten words.”
– President Bartlet, The West Wing

Vice President of Community Affairs

Name: Kate Frigo

Year: 2011

Hometown: Waukesha, Wisconsin

Hobbies: cooking, camping, running, biking, reading

3 Goals for LLSA:

1. Create a LLSA mentor database.
2. Continue Know Your Rights Presentations and visits to Dane County ICE detainees.
3. Schedule a social with LLSA members and local attorneys.

Quote:

La vida no se mide por las veces que respiras, sino por los momentos que te dejan sin aliento.

Legal Community Liaison

(coming soon)

Treasurer

Name: Crystal Banse

Year: 2010

Hometown: Mequon, Wisconsin

Hobbies: Hanging out with my five-year old son, soccer, listening to music, trivia, Rock Band, domestic and abroad travel, anything outdoors

3 Goals for LLSA:

1. To establish a popular and successful annual LLSA fundraising event
2. To increase LLSA’s visibility and participation in the Law School and on campus
3. To leave next years Executive Board with a comfortable financial nest egg

Quote:

“Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.”
–Jonathan Kozol

Secretary

Name: Melissa Nepomiachi

Year: 2011

Hometown: Lincolnshire, Illinois

Hobbies: reading, music-listening, being outside, biking and hiking, movies, cooking, family, friends, dogs, and the New Yorker.

3 Goals for LLSA:

1. To keep the LLSA constituency always informed and provide them easy access to information.
2. To increase Latino cultural/socio-political awareness by hosting guest speakers, movie screenings and other events.
3. To expand and maintain LLSA’s presence in the community.

Quote:

“The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.”
–Hannah Arendt

“Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.”
–Woody Allen

LEO Representative

Name: Khrissy Scholtz

Year: 2011

Hometown: Wind Lake, Wisconsin

Hobbies: Athletics (particularly running and swimming), Cooking (especially bread baking), Music (favorite musicians are Neutral Milk Hotel, Radiohead, Elvis, and The Hold Steady)

3 Goals for LLSA:

1. Greater L.E.O. presence, both in the law school and the University of Wisconsin.
2. Starting up Sunday morning brunches with LLSA members.
3. Having more active leadership from e-board members in terms of academic things. So, for example, when the 1Ls start having moot court auditions, we should hold office hours of some sort (instead of having the 1Ls take initiative and contact us). We should strive to make ourselves constantly available to the 1Ls (rather than forcing them to seek US out).

Quote:

“It ain’t Coca-Cola, it’s rice.”– The Clash
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” –F. Scott Fitzgerald

Webjefe

Name: Eric Hinojosa

Year: 2011

Hometown: Saginaw, Michigan

Hobbies: Cooking, biking, running, reading anything put in front of me

3 Goals for LLSA:

1. Improve LLSA’s web presence.
2. Use all available means of electronic communication to ensure that UW Law’s Latino/a community is aware of community events and informed about issues impacting them.
3. Lay the groundwork so that 1 & 2 can continue even after I graduate from UW Law.

Quote:

“If something is difficult for you to accomplish, do not then think it is impossible for any human being; rather, if it is humanly possible and corresponds to human nature, know that it is attainable by you as well.”
–Marcus Aurelius

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them.”
– George Bernard Shaw