Excited to celebrate my 25th reunion at Georgetown Law! After graduation, I stayed in Washington D.C. to pursue my passion for immigration law. I represented many individuals and families seeking humanitarian relief, family and employment benefits. After 9/11, I moved to the nonprofit space working on many legislative efforts on immigration. During this time I was teaching at American and Howard and found my passion for teaching. In 2008, I moved to State College, PA to join the faculty at Penn State Law. Currently I serve as a political appointee in the Biden Harris administration. It is an honor to serve and a privilege to celebrate with you this coming October!

It’s hard to believe it has been 25 years since graduation. Where to start? After spending the first 7 years of my career at Clifford Chance and Akin Gump, I moved to LA where I joined a boutique law firm as a partner in their corporate practice. I remained in LA for 15 years. During that time, I took time out from practice to join the faculty at USC Gould School of Law and co-found a successful ed-tech start-up. We moved back to DC with our 2 kids in 2018 where, after a stint in-house with a former client, I have launched my own firm. It has been great to be back in DC and to reconnect with both the law center (where I now teach a class every fall!) and my DC/NY GULC friends (although I of course miss seeing the California crew!)

Karen M. Greenwald runs her own brand strategy boutique. Last year, she won a Platinum Marketing Effectiveness Award, her 17th international industry award. She is also the author the Kansas Notable Book (a picture book), A VOTE FOR SUSANNA, THE FIRST WOMAN MAYOR. This book was chosen by the state of Kansas to represent it at the Library of Congress National Book Festival and in the Library of Congress' Center for the Book "Great Reads from Great Places" initiative. Her second non-fiction picture book, THE MUD ANGELS: HOW STUDENTS SAVED THE CITY OF FLORENCE launched April 2024 and has received praise both in the US and Italy.

I am a corporate (M&A and governance) partner at K&L Gates in Seattle, where I've spent my career, starting with my summer associate stint at predecessor firm Preston Gates & Ellis. I'm active in the ABA M&A Committee, serving as its vice chair and as chair of its flagship Private Target Deal Points Study. Tony Oliver (also L'99; our first date was Barrister's Ball as 1Ls) and I are married with two daughters and a son, ages 17, 13, and 8, respectively. I'm excited to see everyone at the reunion!

It is difficult to believe it has been 25 years since we graduated from Georgetown Law! In many ways it feels like yesterday that we were at the library conducting research (with actual books!) or letting off steam with classmates at the Tiber Creek Pub or the Dubliner. Although I have stayed in the Washington, D.C. area since graduation (with the exception of a year-long clerkship in Oklahoma), balancing family life with four children and a couple of goldendoodles and a career has kept me more out of touch with classmates than I would like. I am really looking forward our 25th reunion to reconnect with classmates and to reminisce about our days as budding lawyers. Hoping you are making plans to attend too!