Meet the People Who Bring Law to McMaster
The Future Lawyers of Tomorrow
The executive and understudy committee of McMaster University Pre-Law Society is dedicated to bringing the best networking tools, social events, and law school information for the term of 2020-2021.
Shelby Seymour
Co-President
Shelby is currently in her final year of the honours bachelors degree in Political Science with a Specialization in Judicial Studies and Public Law at McMaster. Shelby has been a member of MPLS since 2018 and was previously the Understudy of Administration for 2018-2019 year and President for the 2019-2020 year.
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Shelby’s role is to oversee the VP of Student Affairs, VP of Inclusion and Diversity, and the VP of Communications. As well as perform administrative tasks alongside her Co-president to ensure that MPLS is adhering to the guidelines of McMaster University.
A fun fact about Shelby is love spending time in the outdoors and, at the moments, intends to practice either environmental or constitutional law
Shaelyn Just
Co-President
Shaelyn is currently within the final year of her honours bachelors degree in the Justice, Political Philosophy, and Law program. Shaelyn has been a member of MPLS since 2018 and was previously the VP of Events for the year 2019-2020.
Shaelyn's role is to oversee the VP of Finance and the VP of Events as well as perform administrative tasks to ensure that MPLS is adhering to the guidelines of McMaster University.
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One fun fact about Shaelyn is that she is a licensed paralegal and hopes to open her scope of practice in criminal law by becoming a lawyer.
Jada Johns
Vice President
Jada Johns is currently in the final year of her honours bachelors degre in the Political Science program with a specialization in Public Law. Jada has been a member of MPLS since 2018 and previously the VP of communications for the year 2019-2020.
Jada's role is to assist the co-presidents as well as the other executives with their duties, propose logistics of new events, organize fundraising events, and assist in the administrative task.
In the future, Jada hopes to become a corporate, an entertainment, or a real estate lawyer.
Mahika Ahluwalia
Vice President of Events
Mahika is currently in her third year of an honours bachelor of science degree, with a focus in Kinesiology. As an existential learner, Mahika is passionate about medical ethics and research.
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Mahika has been a member of MPLS since 2019 and was previously MPLS's events understudy for the year of 2019-2020. Mahika's role is to plan all the events held by MPLS in accordance with McMaster University guidelines.
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In the future, Mahika hopes to pursue a legal career within the realm of health law.
Vanessa D'Ambrosio
Vice President of Finance
Vanessa is currently in her fourth year of an honours bachelor of life sciences. Vaness has expressed a passion for bioethics and health care policy.
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Vanessa has been a member of MPLS since 2019 and was previously MPLS's finance understudy for the year of 2019-2020. Vanessa's role as Vice President of Finance is to provide monthly budgets, event budgets, semester budgets, annual budgets, and deal with all MPLS's banking in accordance with McMaster University guidelines.
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In the future, Vanessa hopes to pursue the medical ethics legal sector as a health care lawyer.
Haley Pettis
Vice President of Communications
Hayley is in her third year Honours Political Science student, minoring in Justice, Law & Order.
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Hayley has been a member of MPLS since 2019. Hayley's role is to send emails to people within the field of law, contact students, create a monthly newsletter, and much more.
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A few fun facts about Hayley is that she has the intention to practice family law in the future and loves to travel.
Anthony Maoloni
Vice President of Student Affairs
Anthony is currently enrolled in his fourth year in the Public Law and Judicial Studies program at McMaster. Anthony has been a member of MPLS since 2018. Furthermore, Anthony was the Student Affairs and Communications expert for the school year of 2019-2020.
Within MPLS, Anthony’s role is to promote all events on the MPLS’s different social media accounts, including Facebook and Instagram.
After completing his undergraduate degree, Anthony aspires to pursue law school to become a personal injury lawyer or pursue a master’s degree to become a policy analyst.
Annie Jia
Vice President of Inclusion and Diversity
Annie is going into her second year of Honours Bachelor of Science, with a specialization in Life Sciences.
Annie has been an MPLS member since 2019. Annie's role for this year is to make MPLS more inclusive to minorities and to recruit more non-humanity major members to diversify MPLS.
Regarding the future, Annie is interested in child welfare and hopes to pursue a career as a child defense lawyer.
Understudies
The Understudies are apart of the team to ensure continuity of the club and to assist the Vice Presidents in their roles.
Navi Abbas
Events Understudy
Navi is currently in her second year of her Honours Political Science degree and is specializing in Pubic Law and Judicial Studies.
Navi’s role as the events understudy is to assist the Vice President of Events in creating successful events. A fun fact about Navi is that she enjoys painting, sewing, and reading.
In the future, Navi hopes to be a civil litigation lawyer or a real estate lawyer.
Anthony
Finance Understudy
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Dawn Abbas
Newsletter and Communication Understudy
Dawn is currently in her second year of her Honours Political Science degree in the Public Law and Judicial Studies specialization.
Dawn’s role as the newsletter understudy is to assist the VP of communications and VP of student affairs in creating the MPLS Monthly Newsletter. A fun fact about Dawn is that she loves to swim and create art.
In the future, Dawn hopes to pursue law in practice and in the field of education to become a Professor of law.
Kyle Gannon
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