Major: International Studies and Spanish
Job: Paralegal in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

My work

Provide legal support to Assistant U.S. Attorneys working on white-collar tax cases involving billions of dollars in unpaid taxes. Duties include: investigating subpoenaed documents for evidence, filing papers in federal court, and summarizing grand jury transcripts. Sits at the prosecution table during trials on which he works.

Kenyon connections in job search

Spoke to and corresponded with a number of Kenyon graduates through the Kenyon Career Network. "Kenyon graduates were very helpful and even got me interviews during my job search after graduation."

Key Kenyon experience

"My freshman year I took Quest for Justice with Professor Fred Baumann. That class introduced me to thinking harder and more critically than I ever had before. I guess it's only fitting that I ended up working for the Justice Department. I wanted to pursue a career in which I would be making a difference on some level for our own society in its pursuit of justice."

Skills gained at Kenyon that help you perform your job

"I am always confident when drafting a subpoena, putting together a power point presentation for trial, or drafting direct testimony outlines for witnesses to be used at trial because I know I have already done a version of that when I was Kenyon. Kenyon taught me an original and useful way of thinking. I always had to think of questions in and outside of class while going through dense material.

"The jump from Kenyon to the working world was not at all stressful for me because the lessons I learned at Kenyon were practical for use in the working world."

Job high point

Seeing Bernard Madoff both plead guilty and be sentenced in federal court. To work with the attorneys who were in charge of the prosecution was a great feeling. When I was actually in the court house, I felt I was witnessing history in person. I have a front row seat to some of the biggest cases in the entire country.

Outside of my job

Every week I try to read a newspaper from Argentina in Spanish (where I went during my junior year abroad), and newspapers from Europe and China (in English), in addition to the New York Times, because Professor Singer always told me to stay informed and read newspapers from all over the world to see what others think.