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ISLP STAFF
JEAN BERMAN: Jean Berman joined the International Senior Lawyers
Project as Executive Director in September 2001, shortly after the completion
of the feasibility study for ISLP. Prior to joining ISLP, Ms. Berman was a
Senior Staff Attorney at Lawyers Alliance for New York, where for nearly 18
years she represented nonprofit organizations serving low-income communities,
specializing in issues related to nonprofit organizations and the development
of affordable housing. Earlier in her legal career, Ms. Berman was associated
with Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP and Berle, Butzel, Kass
& Case, a New York
law firm specializing in environmental law. A graduate of Harvard
University and the New York University
School of Law, Ms. Berman spent the year 1970-71 in Yugoslavia
(Belgrade and Novi Sad)
on a Fulbright Scholarship, and spent a year in Switzerland
and a year in Russia
as a child and teenager.
ANNA SHAKAROVA: Anna Shakarova is the Deputy Director of the
International Senior Lawyers Project. Ms. Shakarova joined ISLP in December
2007. She previously served as a Senior Program Officer at the Financial
Services Volunteer Corps (FSVC), where she was responsible for a diverse
portfolio of technical assistance projects centered on small and medium-sized
enterprise (SME) lending for financial services institutions in transition and
emerging market countries. During her nine years at FSVC, she held a number of
positions managing FSVC’s technical assistance programs with a focus on
improving banking systems, capital markets, and legal and regulatory frameworks
in Russia and the CIS
(Commonwealth of Independent States), Middle East, and Asia.
Ms. Shakarova earned her M.A. from the Samarkand
State University
and a B.A. from the Marymount
Manhattan College.
NATHAN MILLER: Prior to joining ISLP, Nathan created and managed a
project to build the capacity of Southern Sudanese lawyers and policymakers by
facilitating a global law firm’s pro bono representation of the emerging
Government of Southern Sudan. He worked with senior government officials and a
team of more than 50 attorneys in 7 countries to provide timely and relevant
legal services to the Southern Sudanese delegations to constitutional
negotiations. Before that, Nathan worked for the United Nations
Development Program (UNDP) in Southern Sudan,
helping to build the institutions of their fledgling legal system. He studied
political philosophy (BA, University of Dayton) and law (JD, NYU School of
Law), and has spent time working as a researcher at the United Nations
International Law Commission in Geneva, at the Project on International Courts
and Tribunals (PICT) in New York, and at the International Criminal Tribunal
for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania
ANDRA MOSS: Andra has been with ISLP since June, 2007 and is
responsible for volunteer outreach to senior lawyers and law firms, for pairing
volunteers with international pro bono opportunities, and for disseminating
information about the work of ISLP and its clients, partners and volunteers.
Andra came to ISLP from the Institute
of Management Administration,
where she directed programming related to best practices in law firm
management, working closely with law firm administrators and managing partners
across the country. During a three month sabbatical in 2006, she led a course
on volunteerism for the Japanese government-sponsored Ship for World Youth
in Kenya and India. She has
also headed the volunteer efforts for the Uptown Habitat for Humanity and The
Hague Appeal for Peace world peace conference of 1999 and was volunteer
coordinator for the Chicago Sister Cities Program. Andra has a BA in
International Studies (Miami University, Ohio) and an MS in Human Service Administration and
Nonprofit Management (Spertus College, Chicago,
Illinois).
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