Completer Attending Harvard Law

Alexia De Vincentis, a completer of Roosevelt’s Marketing
Education Career Program, is in her third year of a joint degree
program at Harvard Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of
Government. De Vincentis will graduate with a J.D. and a Masters in Public Policy in 2010.

She was named a Graduate Scholar by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, which funds her four years of graduate study. A private, independent foundation established by Jack Kent Cooke, the
foundation helps exceptionally promising students, especially those with financial needs.

After graduation, De Vincentis says, “I hope to eventually work in impact litigation, either domestically with regards to civil rights and civil liberties or within the Inter-American system for human rights.”

In 2004, she was named a Fulbright Scholar after graduating summa cum laude from Case Western Reserve University with degrees in political science, economics and Spanish and winning numerous honors, including Phi Beta Kappa. Considered the U.S. government’s flagship program in international educational exchange, the Fulbright Program was established by Congress in 1946 to give U.S. citizens and nationals from other countries a variety of educational experiences. She spent eight months in Argentina working on a project to develop a legal index to measure the barriers the poorest people face in accessing the legal system, as well as develop pro-bono legal clinics at Argentine law schools.

In the summer of 2001, De Vincentis first studied in Argentina when she was severely injured in a tour bus crash in a remote part of the country. After a two-month hospital stay in Buenos Aries and Akron, De Vincentis continued her studies at Case. A 2000 graduate of Roosevelt, De Vincentis says she benefited from taking Marketing Education, a Career Program of the Six District Educational Compact.

“More than merely exposing me to different subject matter and equipping me with a stronger business sense, Marketing impacted me because of my teacher, Brent Pfeiffer. He instilled in me a confidence that motivated me to pursue goals that I otherwise would not have thought possible.”
Pfeiffer is understandably proud of De Vincentis. “I’ve told many people that Alexia is one of the most intelligent—and driven—students I have had the pleasure of working with,” he says. “She is
absolutely amazing.”

Along with other students from Harvard Law School, Alexia De Vincentis made a presentation at the United Nations.