At Harvard Law School, Andrew Manuel Crespo was the first-ever Latino president of the Harvard Law Review.
With his stellar credentials, Andrew Manuel Crespo, 34, could have had a gilded entree to the elite worlds of finance, academia or government. He graduated from Harvard College magna cum laude. At Harvard Law School, he wasLatino president of the Harvard Law Review and he clerked for two Supreme Court justices.
But when it came time to get a job, Crespo became a public defender in Washington, D.C. His first client was eight years old. Andrew Manuel Crespo is a professor at Harvard Law School. He was the first Latino president of the Harvard Law Review.The way his young clients and their families trusted him, Crespo remembered, was something that he never took for granted. “I was working in juvenile criminal court, and my clients were 12, 13, 16 years old,” Crespo said. “There is something very powerful about meeting people for the first time when they are literally behind bars.
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