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Officers & Members
2009-2010 BLSA Officers
Ian Warner, President, Class of 2011 Contact Ian: ijw@u.washington.edu Ian was born in providence Rhode Island, went to high school in a Seattle suburb and attended Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. As an undergraduate much of his research, and eventually his thesis, focused on voting rights for minority populations in the state of Washington. After graduation Ian headed to Costa Rica to work in a small private firm in San Jose. Four months later he took a job as an investigator for the Public Defender Service for Washington DC and held that position for a year. Then it was time to go to school and UW Law has turned out to be a great fit for Ian. Feel free to contact Ian with any questions concerning the law school process.
Josias Flynn, Vice President, Class of 2011 Contact Josias: jflynn3@u.washington.edu Josias is a second year law student from Tacoma, Washington. He graduated from Truman State University with a degree in business. He is still undecided as to what field of law he wants to pursue after graduation.
Silke Anderson - Treasurer, Class of 2011 Contact Silke: silkea@u.washington.edu Silke hails from Phoenix, Arizona, by way of Chicago, Illinois. She attended the University of Arizona and received her B.A. in Political Science. She is entering her second year at the UW Law school. She came to UW, because it is one of the only law schools in the country with a comprehensive Dispute Resolution concentration that includes extensive clinical training.
Amena Jefferson, past President; WRBLSA mock trial director 2009-2010 Program Officer, Class of 2010 Contact Amena: amenaj@u.washington.edu Amena is in her second year of law school here at the University of Washington. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and received her B.A. with honors in American Studies: Race, Law and Social Movements with a minor in African American Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. Amena is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, current President of UW BLSA and Secretary of MLSA. Some of her interests include spending time with family, cooking, creative writing, going to the movies, and ballet and jazz dancing. Amena has developed a strong interest in litigation and in the future hopes to become a trial attorney.
La Rond Baker, Member-at-Large and current President of the Minority Law Student Association, Class of 2010 Prior to attending law school La Rond served as a Literacy AmeriCorps member at the King County Correctional Facility, where she taught Adult Basic Education/GED classes to inmates and supervised volunteers and UW/SU students who tutored at KCCF for credit. She also worked for Powerful Voices leading Girls' Health and Wellness program at King County Juvenile Detention. It was this work that directly/indirectly lead her to law school. La Rond intends to practice criminal law and to work on policy changes to the criminal justice system. I am an active member in BLSA, MLSA, IPNW-SC (Innocence Project Student Chapter), NLG (National Lawyers Guild) and SYLAW (Street Youth Legal Advocates of Washington).
Netsanet Tesfay, Member-at-Large, Class of 2010 Netsanet is a second year law school student at the University of Washington and BLSA's program officer. She is also part of the Immigrant Family Advocacy Project steering committee. Netsanet went to the University of Washington for undergrad and majored in Political Science and Arabic. Her interests include development (rule of law/judicial reform) as well as immigration law.