J.D. Ambassadors

Meet our Student Ambassadors

Self-guided walking tours of Myron Taylor Hall are available through the Office of Admissions & Financial Aid. Our website also offers a Virtual Tour available at any time to learn more about Cornell Law School. If you would like to connect with a current student, we encourage you to reach out to our Student Ambassadors beginning in Fall 2026 by emailing law.ambassador@cornell.edu. They are happy to answer questions about student life, academics, and the Cornell Law experience.

Ria Bajaj

Ria Bajaj is a current 3L at Cornell Law School from Princeton, New Jersey. She serves as an Honors Fellow for the Lawyering Program, where she supports first-year law students in building legal research and writing skills, and is a member of Cornell Law’s Entrepreneurship Clinic. Ria is also on the executive board of the Business Law Society and the Women of Color Collective.

Ria is a 3+3 student and began her first year of law school while completing her Bachelors of science from Cornell’s Industrial and Labor Relations School.

Professionally, Ria spent her 1L summer in New York at Kirkland & Ellis in the Corporate General group and will be returning for her 2L summer. In her free time, Ria enjoys traveling, reading, and exploring new cafes and restaurants.

Joshua Samuel

Joshua Samuel is a current 3L at Cornell Law School. He is a 3+3 student, and started his first year of law school while completing his bachelors of science in Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell.

Joshua was an incoming 2L summer associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. At law school, he is also involved in the Cornell Law Students Association, the South Asian Law Students Association, and the Capital Punishment Clinic.

Outside of school, Joshua enjoys sketching, playing the ukulele, and dancing as a part of Cornell Bhangra, the all-inclusive Bhangra dance team at Cornell.

Yubin Kim

Yubin Kim is a current 3L from San Ramon, California. She is a General Editor for the Journal of Law and Public Policy and served as Co-President of the Women of Color Collective, Social Chair of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, and Vice President of Public Outreach for the Cornell Antitrust Club. Her clinical experiences include the Tenants Advocacy Practicum and the Law-Med Case Collaboration.

Yubin spent her 1L summer as a judicial intern for the S.D.N.Y. Bankruptcy Court and her 2L summer as a summer associate in Simpson Thacher & Bartlett’s New York office, where she will return upon graduation. As a 3L, Yubin will study abroad in Amsterdam in the fall and spend the spring semester at Cornell Tech in New York City.

Before law school, Yubin graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied Psychological & Brain Sciences. In her free time, Yubin enjoys going to concerts, traveling, and baking.

Luke Wyatt

Luke Wyatt is a third-year law student at Cornell Law School and is originally from Benton, Kentucky. In his undergraduate years, Luke attended Murray State University where he received a degree in Political Science/Pre-Professional Legal Studies.

At Murray State Luke was a Presidential Fellow with Honors. At Cornell, he has been actively involved in student organizations, including serving as the 2L Representative for the Business Law Society, Corporate Connect, the Christian Legal Society, the Federalist Society, and the First-Generation Law Society.

Luke has competed in multiple academic and professional events, including the 2025 NFL Contract Negotiation Competition hosted by Villanova Law School and Cornell Law School’s Cuccia Cup Moot Court Competition. He is currently writing a student note for the Cornell International Law Journal.

Luke has a strong interest in public policy and politics. During his undergraduate years, he worked for several Members of Congress and U.S. Senators. Following his first year of law school, he served as a Law Clerk for the Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Senate’s leading investigative committee.

This upcoming summer, Luke will work as a Summer Associate at Fried Frank in New York City. Outside the classroom, he enjoys working out, listening to country music, and spending time with friends. Known for his outgoing personality, Luke is always happy to connect and welcomes questions or conversation.

Jana Alzayer

Jana Alzayer is a current 3L at Cornell Law School. She was born and raised in Saudi Arabia. She is a 3+3 student and started her first year of law school while completing her Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Government from Cornell.

Jana is involved in many student organizations: she is the Co-President of the Women’s Law Coalition, Treasurer of the Middle Eastern and North African Law Student Association, and External Representative for the Cornell Law Student Association. She will also be involved in the Entrepreneurship Clinic during her 2L year.

Jana worked at Skadden Arps Slate LLP’s Washington DC office during her 1L summer and will be returning to the firm in the summer of 2026 for their 2L program. She plans on practicing transactional law, with a focus on Project Finance, specifically in the energy industry.

For fun, Jana likes trying new coffee spots and restaurants, traveling, and spending time with friends.

Emma Quarequio

Emma Quarequio is a current 3L originally from the suburbs of Miami, Florida. She is a J.D./M.B.A. dual-degree candidate, pursuing coursework both at the Law School and the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management as a Forté and ROMBA Fellow.

Emma earned her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Boston University summa cum laude with honors, specializing in Sociocultural Anthropology, and minors in Italian Studies and Autism Spectrum Disorders. At BU, she served as Editor-in-Chief of two campus satire publications and was a part-time comedy writer before law school.

On campus, Emma currently serves as Co-President of the J.D./M.B.A. Society, a Cornell Law Admissions Ambassador, Teaching Assistant for the Master of Science in Legal Studies program, Teaching Assistant for the Johnson Core Curriculum, and the Diversity Chairperson and a Notes Editor for the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, where she also contributes online to The Issue Spotter. One of the highlights of her 2L year was connecting members of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society to attorneys at the NFL, NHL, MLB, Sony Music, 13 Management (Taylor Swift), Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy, and Nike during her tenure as Co-President.

Professionally, Emma spent her 1L summer in-house with the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York in Manhattan and her 2L summer as a Summer Associate at Chapman & Cutler in their New York office. She plans to practice Corporate Law.

In her free time, Emma loves attending live stage productions, rooting for the home team at baseball games, and open-water paddle boarding.

Eden Slone

Eden Slone is a 3L from Pippa Passes, Kentucky and a University of Kentucky graduate. She graduated with a degree in Journalism and has enjoyed finding commonalities as well as appreciating the differences between journalistic and legal writing. She also has a minor in International Studies.

On campus, Eden is the current Social Chair for the Business Law Society and a student in the Veterans Law Practicum–a cause especially close to Eden’s heart. Eden spent her 1L summer working in the U.S. District Court as a judicial intern for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

Cornell Law offers many formative experiences, but the absolute highlight of Eden’s 1L year was participating in Admitted Student Days and talking to prospective students about charting their own paths at Cornell, and she is incredibly excited to continue this role as an Admissions Ambassador.

In her free time, Eden loves finding new favorite restaurants in Ithaca, traveling, and watching Kentucky basketball. Please feel free to reach out to Eden at any point for more information on what makes both Cornell Law and Ithaca so special.