Speaker Biographies

Charlotte Alvarez is the Executive Director of The Immigration Project located in Bloomington, IL. The Immigration Project is a nonprofit agency that provides direct legal services for low income individuals in 86 counties in central and southern Illinois. She represents individuals in immigration cases, including family-based petitions, citizenship, asylum, and other forms of administrative and humanitarian relief. Charlotte is also active in providing Know Your Rights presentations and working with immigrant advocacy organizations to respond to the needs of rural immigrant communities. Previously, Charlotte was the Legal Services Director of the Immigration and Access to Justice program at the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama.

Daniel J. Arbess is an investor and analyst recognized for his prescient calls on multi-year macroeconomic and geopolitical developments. He is a former Partner and Head of the Global Privatization practice group at White & Case from 1992, co-founder of investment firms Stratton Investments and Triton Partners from 1995–2002, and founder of Xerion Investments and the $3.25 Billion Xerion Hedge Funds, which he managed from 2003–2014. Dan is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-Founder of No Labels, a US political organization promoting collaboration across the political spectrum.

Sabrineh Ardalan is Assistant Director and Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. She previously served as the Equal Justice America fellow at The Opportunity Agenda and as a litigation associate at Dewey Ballantine LLP. She also clerked for the Honorable Michael A. Chagares of Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the Honorable Raymond J. Dearie, Chief District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. She holds a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in History and International Studies from Yale College.

Robert C. Bordone is the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the Founding Director of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program. He teaches several courses at Harvard Law School including the school’s flagship Negotiation Workshop. Bob also teaches in the Harvard Negotiation Institute and the Harvard Program on Negotiation’s Senior Executive Education seminars.

Christopher T. Bavitz is Managing Director of Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is also a Clinical Instructor and Lecturer on Law at HLS, where he teaches the seminar, Music & Digital Media, and has co-taught the Practical Lawyering in Cyberspace seminar.

Megan Brown is a Partner in the law firm Wiley Rein LLP. She is leader in the firm’s nationally-recognized Telecom, Media and Technology practice, handling, among other things, emerging technology and cybersecurity issues for Fortune 100 companies and associations. She helps companies deploy services, shape policy, and respond to government inquiries and investigations. She practices before the FCC, FTC, DHS, NTIA, GSA, Department of Commerce, and others. She advises on compliance with consumer protection, privacy and security regimes, and helps companies on national security issues, including “Team Telecom”/CFIUS review. Megan litigates questions of first impression related to technology, federal preemption and the First Amendment including commercial speech.

I. Glenn Cohen is one of the world’s leading experts on the intersection of bioethics, sometimes also called “medical ethics”, and the law, as well as health law. He also teaches civil procedure. From Seoul to Krakow to Vancouver, Professor Cohen has spoken at legal, medical, and industry conferences around the world and his work has appeared in or been covered on PBS, NPR, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Mother Jones, the New York Times, the New Republic, the Boston Globe, and several other media venues.

He is the author of more than 80 articles and chapters and his award-winning work has appeared in leading legal (including the Stanford, Cornell, and Southern California Law Reviews), medical (including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA), bioethics (including the American Journal of Bioethics, the Hastings Center Report), scientific (Science, Cell, Nature Reviews Genetics) and public health (the American Journal of Public Health) journals, as well as Op-Eds in the New York Times and Washington Post. Cohen is the editor of The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues (Oxford University Press, 2013, the introduction of which is available here), the co-editor of Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future (MIT Press, 2014, co-edited with Holly Lynch), Identified Versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2015, co-edited with Norman Daniels and Nir Eyal), FDA in the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges of Regulating Drugs and New Technologies (Columbia University Press, 2015, co-edited with Holly Lynch, the introduction of which is available here), The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Health Care Law (Oxford University Press, 2015-2016, co-edited with William B. Sage and Allison K. Hoffman) and the author of Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014), with two other books in progress.

Rebecca Richman Cohen has been a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School since 2011.  She is an Emmy Award nominated documentary filmmaker with experience in human rights, criminal defense, and drug policy reform. Rebecca was profiled in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces in Independent Film as an “up-and-comer poised to shape the next generation of independent film.” Her films have won awards at film festivals including SXSW and Tribeca and have been broadcast on networks including HBO, public television, and Al Jazeera.  She has taught classes at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), American University’s Human Rights Institute, and most recently at Columbia University. Rebecca earned a BA in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies from Brown University, and a JD from Harvard Law School. She was a 2012–2013 Soros Justice Fellow and a 2015–2016 fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Ron Davis is the CEO of Tenacity, a technology startup that uses behavioral and social network science to improve employee performance and retention. Ron led Tenacity's fundraising efforts, and supports Tenacity’s leaders in product management, sales, marketing and operations. He is on the Sound Transit Citizen Oversight Panel, which provides accountability and transparency for the regional Seattle public transportation organization. He was recently honored by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce with a position in the Young American Leaders Program, hosted at HBS. Ron has also recently started working with the Seattle Chamber’s Policy Leadership Group. Ron speaks on employee quality of life, customer experience, and on the proper way to account for the costs of employee attrition. He lives in Seattle with his wife, Trina, a physician, and their two young boys, Dane and Coren.

Justin Dillon is a partner at KaiserDillon PLLC, a litigation boutique in Washington, DC. He has represented dozens of students nationwide in campus disciplinary matters and has been published or quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and more than a dozen other publications. He was the first lawyer in the country to win summary judgment for an accused student in a campus sexual assault lawsuit, which he did against George Mason University in 2016. Before joining the firm, Justin spent more than five years as an Assistant US Attorney in Washington, DC, and also served in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. At Harvard, Justin was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and captain of the winning team in the Ames Moot Court.

Sean Doherty joined Bain Capital in 2005 and is a Managing Director and the firm’s General Counsel. Earlier in his career, he was an attorney at Ropes & Gray LLP and a law clerk to the Honorable Patti Saris on the federal District Court in Boston. Prior to attending Harvard Law School, he was a Lieutenant in the US Navy, in which he served on a Middle East Force frigate from 1990-94, and a speech writer for the Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress in Costa Rica. Sean is a member of the International Board of Directors of JDRF, the global leader in research to treat, prevent and cure Type 1 Diabetes (T1D). He is also the chairman of the board of directors of JDRF’s T1D Fund, a venture philanthropy vehicle devoted to early-stage commercial investing in T1D.

T.J. Duane is a serial entrepreneur and former practicing attorney. He currently heads BrightCrowd, a VC backed, next generation professional networking application. Prior to BrightCrowd, Mr. Duane co-founded Lateral Link, a web-based legal jobs platform. He also developed HL Central while he was a 1L at HLS. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Harvard Law School Association and chairs the HLSA Entrepreneurs Network.

Mr. Duane began his career as a corporate attorney at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York. T.J. has spoken at universities across the country on entrepreneurship, has appeared on CNN and been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, American Lawyer, the National Law Journal, Business Week and Business Insider. In addition to his JD from Harvard Law, he holds a BS from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford University.
Len Elmore ’87

Len Elmore is a former basketball All-American at The University of Maryland at College Park, a ten-year professional basketball player, an attorney and a television personality whose professional experience spans a rich athletic career, several prestigious law firms as well as significant business and public interest endeavors.

Mr. Elmore was named among The Atlantic Coast Conference’s Top 50 Greatest Basketball Players in 2002. In 1974, he was a first round draft pick in both the ABA and the NBA.

Upon conclusion of his basketball career in 1984, Elmore received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1987 as the first NBA player to graduate from that institution. Len has served as a prosecutor in Kings County (Brooklyn) NY, Counsel and Partner at several law firms and the owner and lead sports agent at Precept Sports & Entertainment. He has also served in the capacity of Chief Executive Officer of Test University, an online, standardized test preparation company, principally serving disadvantaged students and school districts and iHoops, a joint venture of the NBA and NCAA whose mission was to enhance the experience and culture of youth basketball.

Currently, Len serves as a director on the boards of two public companies, several charitable organizations and is a Commissioner on the Knight Commission for Intercollegiate Athletics reform. He is a noted speaker on sports & culture and sports law issues and has published numerous articles and opinion pieces. Len has further enjoyed a 28-year career as a network basketball commentator for Raycom Sports, CBS and ESPN and now, Fox Sports.

Len Elmore has received numerous awards recognizing his commitment to community, education and justice. Most recent among those community and industry honors, in April, 2015, Len was awarded The Street & Smith Sports Business Journal’s coveted Champions: Pioneer and Innovator Award honoring individuals who have had a unique and lasting impact on sports and the business of sport.

Daniel S. Farbman is currently working on his doctoral degree in the American Studies Program at Harvard. His academic work builds on his law practice by addressing questions of radicalism and reform at the intersection between legal and literary history.

Mark C. Fleming is a partner in the Boston office of WilmerHale, where is Vice-Chair of the firm’s Appellate and Supreme Court Litigation practice group. Mark is an experienced appellate litigator who has personally argued five appeals before the Supreme Court of the United States, as well as two dozen appeals before the US Courts of Appeals for the First, Third, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, District of Columbia, and Federal Circuits, and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Appeals Court.

Jesse M. Fried is a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Before joining the Harvard faculty in 2009, Fried was a Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) at the University of California Berkeley. Fried has also been a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School, Duisenberg School of Finance, Hebrew University, IDC Herzilya, and Tel Aviv University. He holds an AB and AM in Economics from Harvard University, and a JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. His well-known book, Pay without Performance: the Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation, co-authored with Lucian Bebchuk, has been widely acclaimed by both academics and practitioners and translated into Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Italian. Fried has served as a consultant and expert witness in litigation involving executive compensation and corporate governance issues. He also serves on the Research Advisory Council of proxy advisor Glass, Lewis & Co.

Michael Gregory is Clinical Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches and practices law as part of the Trauma and Learning Policy Initiative (TLPI). TLPI is a partnership between Harvard Law School and Massachusetts Advocates for Children. TLPI’s mission is to ensure that children traumatized by exposure to violence succeed in school. Professor Gregory is a co-author of both volumes of TLPI’s landmark report, Helping Traumatized Children Learn, and is also a co-author of Educational Rights of Children Affected by Homelessness and/or Domestic Violence, a manual for child advocates. At HLS, he co-teaches the Education Law Clinic with Susan Cole, in which law students represent individual families of traumatized children in the special education system and engage in systemic advocacy in education reform at the state level. In conjunction with the clinic, he co-teaches with Ms. Cole the seminars “Education Advocacy and Systemic Change: Children at Risk” and “Legislative Lawyering in Education Law.” Professor Gregory has also taught Education Law and Policy and Education Reform Movements.

Professor Gregory received his JD from Harvard Law School in 2004, graduating cum laude. He also graduated magna cum laude with a BA in American Civilization from Brown University in 1998, and an MA in Teaching, also from Brown University, in 1999. He was the recipient of a Skadden Fellowship in 2004.

Chadwick Allen Ho ’97

Chadwick Ho is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Hulu. As the chief legal officer, Chad oversees the company’s legal, business affairs, and regulatory matters, including corporate governance and operations, compliance, mergers and acquisitions, business transactions, intellectual property, litigation and public policy. Chad also serves as the Corporate Secretary at meetings of Hulu’s Board of Directors. He has 20 years of experience advising media and technology companies. Prior to joining Hulu, Chad was the Deputy General Counsel of MySpace, and Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for Fox Interactive Media after it acquired MySpace. Before that, he worked as Senior Counsel of ABC Studios negotiating talent, development, production and distribution deals. Chad began his career in private practice at Latham & Watkins and O’Melveny & Myers after clerking for the US Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit. In addition to his Harvard Law degree, Chad received a BA in Psychology with distinction from Stanford University.

Nadim Homsany is son of immigrants who arrived in the US with virtually nothing. His upbringing instilled in him a passion for helping people build financial resilience and independence. Prior to EarnUp, Nadim worked at Serent Capital, a $600M private equity firm, focused on tech-enabled services. Prior to Serent, Nadim led investments with NCB Capital, a $12B asset manager. Before this, Nadim worked at McKinsey & Company consulting large banks. Nadim also practiced IP and technology law at Kirkland & Ellis. Nadim holds a JD degree from Harvard Law School and graduated with highest honors from Rutgers University.

Neil Jahss is a Supervising Producer on The Amazing Race. A three-time Emmy Award winner, Neil has worked primarily in post-production on the last 16 seasons of CBS long-running reality competition program. Previously, he worked in casting, formatting, challenging producing in the field, and in post production on CBS’s Big Brother, Fox’s Trading Spouses and Fox’s The Partner.

Before transitioning to reality television production, Neil was counsel for many years at O’Melveny & Myers, where he specialized in First Amendment media defense and intellectual property litigation for magazines, television networks and film studios, and recruited at Harvard Law School. In addition to his Harvard Law education, Neil holds a degree from the University of Virginia in Interdisciplinary Studies.