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Dianne Lake is a graduating J.D. originally from Freetown, Sierra Leone. At Yale Law School, she has served as the president of the Black Law Students Association, a Dean’s Advisor, and as a student director and advocate in the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. Dianne has also worked for the Public International Law and Policy Group, Arnold and Porter LLP, the Clooney Foundation for Justice, and as a research assistant to the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance. Dianne spent the 2019-2020 academic year abroad as a Yale Fox International Fellow exploring the legal and socio-political implications of Ghana’s “Year of Return” for the descendants of enslaved Africans. Before attending Yale Law School, she worked as a Woodbridge Fellow for the Yale Office of International Affairs and curated Yale’s Contemporary African Arts and Culture Festival, Africa Salon. She received a B.A. in Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Yale College in 2016.
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