| Tasha Buzzell has just completed her second year at Suffolk Law School as a Merit Scholar. She graduated from Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA, where she majored in Sociology. As an undergraduate, Tasha established a sexual assault survivor support coalition between faculty and students. She also completed an internship at the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire, and contributed to a research paper presented at the XV World Meeting of the International Society for Research on Aggression in 2002. Upon graduation from Holy Cross, she received the Women’s Studies award for outstanding advocacy and academic excellence.
Prior to law school, Tasha worked as the program coordinator and family advocate for a battered women’s shelter. As a law student, Tasha has worked with the Volunteer Lawyers Project at Norfolk County Probate and Family Court, and has interned at Southeastern Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation in Fall River. As a Rappaport Fellow, Tasha will be working at the Department of Public Health (www.mass.gov/dph) in the Division of Violence and Injury Prevention on issues of disability related to sexual and domestic violence. Her work will be used to activate the Governor’s Committee on Sexual and Domestic Violence subcommittee on Disability Issues (www.lawlib.state.ma.us/ExecOrders/eo450.pdf). |
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