President Amanda Ng, ’20
External Vice President Madison Mumma, ’20
Internal Vice President Eleanor Shingleton, ’20
Treasurer Charles White, ’20
Events Coordinators Kelly Adams, ’20; Shoshana Silverstein, ’20
Director of Alumni Relations Andrew Toig, ’20
Assistant Director of Alumni Relations Nicholas Lynch, ’20
1L Representatives Alden Glass, ’21; Chris Johnson, ’21; Katie Lew, ’21; Krista Kowalczyk, ’21; Peyton Coleman, ’21
Amanda Ng
President
Amanda is a 2L from Bellevue, Washington, a suburb fifteen minutes outside of Seattle. She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.A. in English and a research focus on the connection between storytelling and social movements in the Victorian period. Before law school, she worked in academic web design and development before transitioning to healthcare advocacy and community organizing. In her first year at Duke Law, Amanda was a member of the Duke Law Innocence Project’s Public Policy Team and the 1L Representative for the Admissions Committee. She spent her summer with the ACLU of North Carolina, where she worked on projects relating to North Carolina’s HB 142, domestic violence statutes, and bail practices. She is a staff editor for the Duke Law Journal, and enjoys cooking and exploring local plant shops. She plans to return to the west coast to work in impact litigation.
Maddy Mumma
External Vice President
Maddy is from Durham, North Carolina, and graduated from Duke University in 2016 with a B.A. in Public Health and Psychology. After graduation, Maddy worked in Raleigh for the North Carolina Justice Center on a variety of public policy matters and then thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail. At Duke Law, Maddy is a member of the Mock Trial Board, a 2L DBA Representative, a staff editor for Law and Contemporary Problems, and a case manager for Duke Law Innocence Project. For her 1L summer, Maddy interned at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle, which confirmed her desire to pursue a career in criminal law.
Ellie Shingleton
Internal Vice President
Ellie is originally from Richmond, Virginia, and graduated from George Washington University in 2012 with a B.A. in History and Political Science. Before attending law school, Ellie lived in Washington, DC and Virginia, working in politics on campaigns, on Capitol Hill, and for an arts and arts education nonprofit organization called Americans for the Arts. At Duke, she is a LEAD fellow and the law firm donations coordinator for the Public Interest Law Foundation. During her 1L summer, she worked at the Office of the Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of Virginia in Richmond. Outside of the classroom, she likes hiking with her dog, cooking, and watching anything true crime-related on Netflix.
Charlie White
Treasurer
Charlie was born and raised in Southwest Florida, but moved to North Carolina to pursue his undergraduate education at UNC Asheville. There, he majored in French and Political Science and had the opportunity to serve on the university’s Board of Trustees. While in Asheville, he found his interest in the law while organizing voter engagement campaigns. After his 1L year, he went back to the mountains to work at Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Boone office, primarily assisting with domestic violence cases and drafting wills for elderly clients. He ultimately hopes to practice in North Carolina, and is currently exploring potential careers with non-profits, law firms, and government agencies in the state.
Kelly Adams
Co-Events Coordinator
Kelly is from Winston-Salem, NC and is a 2013 graduate of the University of North Carolina, where she majored in History and Peace, War & Defense. Kelly spent the first half of her 1L summer interning with the Corporate & Commercial practice group at DFDL in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She spent the second half of the summer studying at the Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law in The Hague.
Shoshana Silverstein
Co-Events Coordinator
Shoshana is a 2L from Hyde Park, Vermont. A 2015 graduate of Dartmouth College, Shoshana studied Government and Public Policy, and interned for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. A Truman Scholar, she continued her commitment to public service after graduation as a Truman-Albright Fellow in the Office of the Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs within the U.S. Department of the Interior in D.C. During her two years at Interior, Shoshana worked on issues related to education, environment and climate change, the Indian Child Welfare Act, and intergovernmental coordination through the White House Council on Native American Affairs. At Duke, Shoshana was a member of the Innocence Project’s active investigations team and interned her 1L summer for the Mecklenburg County Public Defender’s Office. She is a staff editor for the Alaska Law Review and is co-president of the Jewish Law Students Association. She is pursuing a career in criminal law.
Andrew Toig
Director of Alumni Relations
Andrew graduated from Colorado College in 2009. While recovering from a near-fatal car accident which occurred during his junior year of college, he studied secondary school education at the University of Colorado Denver. After earning his teaching license, he spent the next 5 years teaching social studies in public schools in the Denver area. His final teaching position was with Rite of Passage, which manages multiple schools for youth detained in the criminal justice system. Andrew spent his 1L summer interning with Legal Aid of North Carolina in their Greenville office. There he worked to assist clients in various civil matters ranging from obtaining Domestic Violence Protective Orders to appealing denial of Social Security Disability claims, and drafted a legal memorandum on unfair and deceptive trade practices in housing for an upcoming lawsuit. At Duke Law, Andrew is the chair for Law Students for Accessibility and the law school liaison to the Duke Disability Alliance.
Nick Lynch
Assistant Director of Alumni Relations
Nick is from Duanesburg, New York. At Duke Law, he participates in pro bono research projects focusing on detainees’ rights and eviction litigation through the ACLU and North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission. Prior to law school, he studied Human Rights at Bard College. As an undergraduate, he interned with the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in Washington and with the Worker Justice Center of New York. After graduating, Nick hopes to work at a public interest/plaintiff side firm that addresses issues of economic and environmental justice.
Alden Glass
1L Representative
Alden is a 1L from Boise, Idaho. He studied political theory in undergrad at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. His hobbies including soccer, yelling at the TV during sporting events, and reading.
Chris Johnson
1L Representative
Chris Johnson is a 1L who was born and raised in Naperville, Illinois and attended Davidson College in North Carolina. At Davidson, he majored in Environmental Studies and Political Science, with a specific focus on comparing the efficacy of government regulations versus voluntary market-based sustainability programs. Chris spent the last year as the Davidson Impact Fellow at the Georgia Justice Project in Atlanta, Georgia, working on policy issues relating to the expungement of criminal records in Georgia.
Katie Lew
1L Representative
Katie is a 1L from Iowa City, Iowa and graduated from Davidson College in 2016 with a B.A. in Political Science. Before law school, Katie worked as a paralegal in Washington D.C. at the law firm MoloLamken LLP. At Duke Law, Katie is a member of the Cancer Pro Bono Project and helped plan the Public Interest Retreat.
Krista Kowalczyk
1L Representative
Krista is from Lake Wylie, South Carolina. She graduated from Duke University in 2017 with a B.A. in French and International Comparative Studies. After graduation she worked for the Community Empowerment Fund in Durham, NC, a nonprofit dedicated to one-on-one financial coaching and housing and employment services for members of the Durham community. At Duke Law, she is also a part of the Environmental Law Society’s pro bono projects. She is interested in impact litigation and civil rights law.
Peyton Coleman
1L Representative
Peyton grew up in Wilmington, NC, went to UNC Chapel Hill for undergrad, came straight through to law school, and enrolled in the JD/LLM in International and Comparative Law program. At this point in life and law school, she is definitely drawn to the government and public interest sphere, and wanted to find a community where she could explore that interest and have support.
