During my first year of law school, my family came to visit for Family Weekend. It was such an honor to introduce my family to Georgetown Law (and Jack)!

I'm active duty Navy, and on September 29th, when Justice Ginsburg was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery I was one of 12 military women selected to stand in front of the Memorial for Military Women and salute Justice Ginsburg as her remains entered Arlington Cemetery. (I'm second from the right, next to the Marine in the white skirt)

Given the special relationship Georgetown had with Justice Ginsburg and her husband and the significant impact her work had on my own career, this was an incredibly meaningful and moving event.

As a student with a severe permanent disability, GULC demonstrated the highest level of empathy and professionalism in providing supportive services to enable and enrich my education. Further, I was lucky to have so many people who had a positive impact on my development, and one, in particular, was Professor Cathy Costantino. I would not be the attorney and business person I am today without having the fortuitous opportunities to soak up as much knowledge and information from her both inside and outside class. She, like so many of the people at GULC, make the culture one of the best in the world.

When I arrived at Georgetown as a Global Law Scholar, I was ready to be fully immersed in the world of international law and global politics, and I was. However, GULC is nothing if not holistic. Compared to the lectures about the Vienna Convention of Treaties or the New York Convention on arbitration, a very meaningful part of my time at the Law Center was comparatively very local.

Emily Wilson (L'17), out of her own volition and power, started a Baltimore high school outreach program that in my three years at the Law Center grew to also include DC. This program allowed us to go into underserved communities in the predominantly Black neighborhoods of Baltimore and try to break down any myths about the attainability of law school and to educate the students about their rights in the wake of Freddie Gray’s death. Far from the marble halls of foreign policy in Geneva or Washington, the value and importance of our work in the schools was made abundantly clear to me.

Georgetown allowed and encouraged both the highly academic and professor led study of international law and the student-led local outreach to our school's local communities to flourish. I think that is both a testament to the goals of the Georgetown University Law CenterGlo and to the sense of justice in the students like Emily that it attracts.

...- professors Gordon, Wallace, and Spann were particularly memorable - and getting to know the other students in my section, a number of whom I still remain friends with all these years later. The curriculum was difficult but the rigors of the education prepared me well for a career in law. Teaching legal concepts to inmates at Lorton Prison as part of the Street Law Program was a memorable and unique experience.

Nothing in my life could mean more than my marriage to the father of my two children. Theodore Alan Feitshans and I met in GULC in the offices of the Georgetown Law Weekly. Theodore's friend Lewis Horowitz introduced us saying, "You two are made for each other!" The next time he saw us we were indeed married to each other in the Plaza Hotel in New York City. Our children Jay Levy Feitshans Esq (a lawyer now in medical school ) and Emalyn Levy Feitshans (Masters of American Studies at Columbia University) laugh when I said that in their grandmother's generation women went to college to "get an MRS", but in my generation, the MRS became a graduate degree.

Here is our wedding photo from the Plaza Hotel in New York City and the beginning of amazing adventures in the law.

I had been invited as a Visiting Research Professor in 2013-2014. I had the chance to meet wonderful people and tax experts such as Charles Gustafson. It was a great and enriching experience. I tried to share it with my children and my family... the picture proves it. But I will be back...

And it still does, even after graduating. For me, this institution is not only about an investment in education, but also, and most importantly, an investment in human beings and an investment in building cultures. I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it, I am who am today because of Georgetown University, and I will always be grateful for that.

The place introduced me to my best friends that I’ll always cherish; to my role models, “the circle”: a great group of successful women who were life-mentors and great friends whom I love, respect, and will never forget; to my favorite cuisine: Indian of course; and to many things I consider as foundations for my existence and continuance in my current career.