Alumni Story: Heather Blanco (nee Harrington) '03

"After I graduated from Dartmouth in 2003, I moved to New York City as a Teach for America corps member. I taught English as a Second Language to sixth graders at I.S. 218 in Washington Heights for two years and earned a Master's Degree in Education from Fordham University during my nights and summers. I left for New York for the University of Chicago Law School in 2005, and graduated from there this past June. I am now back in NYC, and I am going to begin work for Latham & Watkins, a large international law firm, this September. Although I will be doing work for corporate clients, Latham also allows its associates to do pro bono work, so I look forward to providing big firm legal resources to people who otherwise may have been shortchanged by the legal system." (7/08)