Madeline Pruhs

Originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Madeline graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2019 with a degree in Biology. After graduation, she spent a year doing public health outreach in Jacksonville as part of AmeriCorps' National Health Corps, then she moved to teaching English in small towns in Spain and Chile before pivoting again to attending law school. In her 1L year, Madeline was a part of the LaLSA Asylum & Refugee Law Moot Court, and found it an incredibly valuable way to learn about asylum law, legal research, and oral advocacy, so she's returning to the moot court this year as a student editor. After 1L, Madeline spent the summer working with Safe Passage Project providing legal services to immigrant children in New York City. She is currently involved in the Immigrants' Rights Clinic at Columbia and a staffer on the Columbia Law Review, and she's looking forward to exploring the city more this upcoming year (or, really, to going anywhere that's outside her apartment).