Samantha Wolfe

Student and Alumni Stories

Chicago-Kent is home to an amazing community, with a diverse range of interests and backgrounds. Browse our stories below for pictures and perspectives from our students, recent graduates, and alumni of note.

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  1. A Unique Journey

    • LAW '19

    “Nothing trains you for the courtroom like Chicago-Kent College of Law’s trial advocacy program,” says Sameeul Haque ’19. “I have repeatedly been able to go back to the lessons I...

  2. For the Want of Justice

    • LAW '12

    “I never see it that I’m the one defending the bad guys,” says Heather Widell ’12. “I’m defending people, and I’m defending the [United States] Constitution.” Widell has run her...

  3. A Path to Redemption

    • LAW '03

    “Everybody loves a good redemption story,” says Ginger Leigh Odom ’03. “Every sports movie is about coming from behind and having success, and I think that the expungement-and-sealing statute is...

  4. A Full Circle Legal Journey

    • LAW '90

    Eileen O’Neill Burke ’90 was in the sixth grade when former justice Mary Ann G. McMorrow spoke to Burke’s class about her career as a judge. McMorrow went on to...

  5. Defending by Example

    • LAW '12

    “Mr. Ammoura, is that you?” It was summer 2011, and Ali Ammoura ’12 was a law student at Chicago-Kent College of Law when he heard a meek voice cut through...

  6. Surpassing Expectations

    • (LAW 3rd Year)

    “Illinois Tech has made pretty much all of my dreams possible,” says Joseph Strom (LAW 3rd Year). “I had some idea of what I may want to do in the...

  7. An Immersive Law Education

    • (LAW 2nd Year)

    When Ivana Bailey-Muñoz (LAW 2nd Year) was volunteering at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Self-Help Resource Center at the Richard J. Daley Center in downtown Chicago, she helped a father and...

  8. On the Front Lines

    • (LAW 3rd Year)

    “The first time I walked the picket line was when I was a college student,” AK Alilonu (LAW 3rd Year) says of an experience he had supporting graduate students at...

  9. The Rising Tide

    • LAW '25

    When Mark Tamvakis ’25 attended the Ilana Diamond Rovner Appellate Advocacy Competition banquet in his first year as a student at Chicago-Kent College of Law, he was struck by the...

  10. The Art of Law

    • LAW '22

    “I got accepted to a couple of art schools, but I always wanted to be a lawyer,” says Joey Zawacki ’22. “I also wanted some kind of financial security, so...