Representative Experience
Advising private foundations, public charities and other tax-exempt organizations regarding nonprofit formation, application for federal tax exemption, and corporate governance

Advising donors and charities on tax aspects of charitable gifts

Prior Experience
Summer Associate, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York, NY

Legal Extern, Alliance for the Arts, New York, NY

Project Manager, Translational and Outcomes Research Group; Project Coordinator, Biobehavioral Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

Assistant, Department of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Publications and Presentations
“In-house Counsel at New York City Cultural and Educational Institutions,” New York: Alliance for the Arts, 2006

“Does Sex Matter? Washington’s Defense of Marriage Act Under the Equal Rights Amendment of the Washington State Constitution,” 80 Wash. L. Rev. 535, 2005

Memberships and Activities
Washington State Bar Association

American Bar Association, Tax Section

American Health Lawyers Association

King County Bar Association, Nonprofit Assistance Clinic

GLBT Bar Association of Washington (Q-Law)

Education
J.D., with honors, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, WA, 2006

• Order of the Coif
  
• Executive Articles Editor and Member, Washington Law Review

B.A., in Art History and English Literature, summa cum laude, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, 1995

• Phi Beta Kappa
  
• Senior Prize in Art History

Languages
Reading knowledge of French; conversational Italian