We are delighted to welcome Michaela Sewall to our office for the 2010-2011 academic year. Michaela is in her third year at Boston College Law School and serves as the managing editor of the Boston College Law Review. Michaela was a summer intern at the U.S. Attorneys Office in Boston in 2009 and a summer associate at Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr in 2010. Her Law Review note on the death penalty, titled "Pushing Execution Over the Constitutional Line: Forcibly Medicating Condemned Inmates and the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments", was published in the Review this past September. Michaela received her BA in political science from Brown University, where she was a first-team all-Ivy center-midfielder on the women's soccer team. 

Chris Knapp is a junior at Boston College, where he is studying psychology and economics. He has enjoyed working part-time at the office since September. Originally from Basking Ridge, New Jersey, Chris is the oldest son of two New Jersey attorneys. In 2007, together with two of his brothers, he received the Boy Scouts of America’s Eagle Scout award. This fall, he will begin his senior thesis research on the relationship between nicotine and impulsivity in human gambling behavior. Chris will graduate in 2012, and plans to either attend law school or pursue a graduate degree in psychology.