Year: 3L
Hometown: Haddonfield, N.J.
Undergrad: Rice University
During her sophomore year of college, Grace Nosek had to re-learn how to walk after one of her lower leg muscles died, forcing her to get a muscle transplant.
“Reeling from this irreversible change in my body and my identity, I resolved to redefine myself,” she wrote us in an email. “I resolved to challenge myself, to try new things, and especially to try those things that frightened me.”
After a high school classmate told her women couldn't write, she put her resolution to the test. Nosek wrote and published a young adult novel called "Ava of the Gaia" that features "a strong female lead and an environmental twist." She said that she is currently working on a sequel.
She also works on an MTV show called "The Buried Life," a reality TV show that follows four guys trying to accomplish all the goals on their list of "100 Things To Do Before You Die." For the past year and a half, she has helped the show's creators develop media campaigns urging college students to follow their dreams.
Nosek wants to be an advocate for the environment, through both traditional legal advocacy and nontraditional creative approaches.
Before law school, she interned with the White House Council on Environmental Quality. While at Harvard, she has interned with DoJ’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and volunteered with the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project. This summer, she plans to intern with the Natural Resources Defense Council in Santa Monica, Calif.