Before coming to law school, Michelle Limaj spent eight years
working with international agencies, primarily on development and post-conflict
peace building, refugee resettlement, asylum and related human rights matters.
Her last job was with the International Organization for Migration in Macedonia,
where she worked on a project to fight trafficking in humans—an important
and dangerous effort.
“When my husband and I found out we would be having a baby, we decided
to move back to the U.S., and I thought the best way to keep doing the work
that mattered to me was to go to law school,” she says. “It was
BC Law's immigration program that attracted me, but since the first day, every
class has had me changing my path.”
Limaj describes law school as more exciting, more fun, and much more manageable
than she ever could have hoped. She credits the school's approach to learning,
and its collaborative atmosphere. “There were times I needed to bring
my daughter with me to class and professors were consistently reassuring and
encouraging,” she says. “One of my classmates would send me notes
just in case I hadn't been able to give note taking my full attention. I had
expected a sense of competition among students in law school, but the atmosphere
here is more one of camaraderie and occasional mutual exhaustion.”
Limaj has quickly become involved in a number of activities, serving as president
of the International Law Society, helping to run landlord-tenant trainings for
the Street Law Clinic, and working in a summer clerkship position for a Federal
Judge in Massachusetts. She recently won the 2005 Massachusetts Association
of Women Lawyers' Honorable Sheila E. McGovern Fund Award.
