Anda Totoreanu

Experience

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  America Reads

  Sept 2011 - May 2012

  Tutor

  Provided tutoring both during and after school as a teaching assistant to Easton area elementary school students. Focused especially on ESL (English as a Second Language) students, I provided one-on-one assistance in reading and math, as well as creating fun learning projects for students, and assisted the teacher with daily tasks.

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  Lafayette College

  Jan 2012 - Aug 2015

  Worked one on one for 8 to 10 hours a week during the school year and full time in the summer with an English Professor at Lafayette College, helping specifically with the Swift Poems Project, transcribing and proofreading manuscripts and primary sources using the literary software Nota Bene. Worked with families and students applying to Lafayette, gave them information about the academics, athletics, arts and other services Lafayette offers as well as giving tours of the campus.I also was responsible for the tour guides at my tour time, making sure they were on time and that each family was properly taken care of.

  • Excel Scholar

    Aug 2012 - Aug 2015

  • Tour Captain/ Admissions Ambassador

    Jan 2012 - Aug 2015
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  Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)

  Mar 2014 - May 2014

  Intern

  Worked 40 hours a week for 8 weeks in Geneva as an intern for a project assistant in the Police Programme of DCAF. I researched and wrote a comparative study on the internal control systems for fifteen countries in Europe, translated emails into French and Romanian, annotated documents in English, created a database of contacts for the program as well as a database of police academies in the English-speaking world.

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  PATRIR

  Sept 2016 - Jul 2017

  Peace Researcher

  Collaborated with partners from six other European countries (Slovakia, Germany, Bulgaria, Poland, and Czech Republic) as the Romanian mapping analyst for the European Network for Nonviolence and Dialogue (ENND) project. Input was then integrated into a larger comprehensive study on social and cultural conflicts in Eastern Europe, and will be used to create the ENND. The study includes the roots of newly rising radicalization, nationalism, and xenophobia but also the tools needed to create a multicultural, inclusive society where all people from different identities, cultures and backgrounds can feel safe and at home. In addition to this, was on the organizing team for the first annual Romanian Peace Forum in Cluj-Napoca. The Forum brought together civil society organizations, practitioners, government officials, academics, students and citizens of Romania and the world. Organized the sessions, contracted partners, oversaw the development of the website, calculated and maintained the budget, and promoted the event through social media and other platforms. Show less

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  Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP

  Nov 2017 - Jul 2020

  Law Clerk

  Filed case documents electronically and in-person at court, served papers by hand and mail, and executed affidavits of service. Assisted attorneys with document retrieval and navigation of State and Federal court websites and databases. Actively participated in pro bono cases, maintaining a database of laws pertaining to Asylum cases in addition to researching country conditions contributing to asylum and participating in human rights clinics. Served as the back-up docketing clerk, monitoring and calendaring hundreds of active cases, as well as determining filing guidelines based on Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and NY Civil law and practice rules. Show less

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  U.S. Bankruptcy Courts

  May 2021 - Aug 2021

  Judicial Intern

  Judicial Intern to Judge Elizabeth S. Stong, Eastern District of New YorkJust the Beginning - Summer Judicial Internship Diversity Project (JTB-SJID)/Judicial Intern Opportunity Program of the ABA (JIOP)Wrote memo on Substantial Contribution in Chapter 11 Fee Application Motions. Prepared Remote Hearing Calendar. Attended teleconference hearings on Chapter 7,11, and 13 Bankruptcy cases. Researched billing records requirements for the Court and prepared related legal documentation for the Judge. Trained in Stay Motion Checklists, Adversary Proceeding Checklists, Loss Mitigation Checklists, and Confirmation Hearing Checklists. Show less

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  Cardozo Journal of Equal Rights and Social Justice (CJERSJ)

  Jul 2021 - May 2023

  • Submissions & Online Editor

    Apr 2022 - May 2023

  • Staff Editor

    Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
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  Cardozo School of Law

  Jul 2021 - Jun 2023

  Researched, drafted, and prepared motions, briefs, prosecutorial discretion requests, and supporting documents for Criminal and Immigration Courts. Managed all case files and prepared clients for upcoming trial dates. Won “Outstanding Clinic Team Award” for our advocacy in a complicated case, where we helped the client to vacate two criminal arrests from the 1990s and to reopen and terminate his removal. Our client’s LPR status was reinstated, and he has returned to the United States after having been removed from the US for nearly 20 years. Show less

  • J.D. Candidate

    Aug 2020 - Jun 2023

  • Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic

    Jul 2021 - Jun 2022
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  The Legal Aid Society

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2022

  Legal Intern

  Wrote briefs, motions, declarations, and prepared supporting documentation for Guardianship and Custody Petitions in Family Court, and for asylum and Special Immigrant Juvenile Status cases before Immigration Court. Prepared clients for testimony before Family Court and Immigration Court. Appeared on behalf of clients in Family and Immigration Courts.

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  Merrill R. Cohen & Associates, PC

  Jan 2023 - May 2023

  Legal Intern

  Prepare nonimmigrant and immigrant petitions including O-1, P-1, B-1, National Interest Waiver EB-2. Draft and submit inadmissibility waivers.

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  Milstein Law Group

  Sept 2023 - now

  • Associate

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Immigration Law Clerk

    Sept 2023 - Feb 2024