Vanessa Martin is a second year law student from Memphis, TN. She graduated in 2005 from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Political Science and a minor in Sociology. During the summer after first year, she interned at the United States Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division. She is currently a Dean's Fellow in the Legal Rhetoric and Writing Department, a Marshall-Brennan Fellow, a junior staff member of the Washington College of Law Criminal Law Brief, and serves on the executive board of Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity.