ImeIme Umana is the first black woman to be elected president of the Harvard Law Review.

As president of the law journal, she leads 90 editors of the journal, which publishes monthly between November and June. Ultimately, Umana plans to become a public defender, to serve those most in need of help navigating the criminal-justice system.

Umana, who graduated from Harvard College in 2014, is a joint-degree candidate at Harvard law school and its school of government.

During her undergrad career, Umana served as the Student Representative for the FAS Standing Committee on Public Service. As well, she was President of the Student Advisory Committee and chair of the Community Action Committee (CAC) at the Harvard University Institute of Politics.

She was also on the board of Harvard Model Congress Boston, the nation’s oldest government simulation conference run exclusively by undergraduates at Harvard College.

Umana was a Research Assistant at the Hiphop Archive at the Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, and a Criminal Law Investigative Intern for the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

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