Monday, September 16, 2024

Center Editorial Board, 2024-2025

Director

Editor-in-Chief
Matt Montag is a third-year student at Albany Law School. Prior to attending Albany Law, Matt worked for four years as a legislative aide in the Colorado State Senate.
Matt is a member of the Albany Law Review and the Albany Law School Tenant’s Rights Pro Bono Project. Last year, he completed a field placement with the Honorable Mae A. D'Agostino, District Court Judge for the Northern District of New York. He has also interned with the Legal Aid Society of Rochester, New York, where he represented tenants facing eviction, and with Read and Laniado, LLP, a law firm specializing in renewable energy and utility law. This fall, Matt is participating in the Immigration Law Clinic at the Justice Center.
Matt holds a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Mass Communication with a minor in Political Science from the George Washington University. His other experiences include interning for Congresswoman Louise Slaughter; working on various political campaigns, including as the campaign manager for a victorious state house candidate in Colorado; and serving as a COVID-19 contact tracer.  

Executive Editor
Hannah Hoyt is a member of the class of 2025 at Albany Law School. Prior to law school, she graduated Summa Cum Laude from Union College. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science with departmental honors and minors in Sociology and Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture.
Throughout college, Hannah worked part-time for the Wadsworth Center of the New York State Department of Health. She is a contributing author to an article published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, titled “Determination of Genomic Epidemiology of Historical Clostridium perfringens Outbreaks in New York State by Use of Two Web-Based Platforms: National Center for Biotechnology Information Pathogen Detection and FDA GalaxyTrakr.”
At Albany Law, Hannah is an Executive Board Member of the Tenants’ Rights Pro Bono Project and has participated in the Donna Jo Morse Client Counseling and Negotiations Competitions. In the Spring of 2024, she joined the Community Economic Development Clinic in Albany Law’s Justice Center.
During the last two summers, Hannah was an intern for the City of Albany Corporation Counsel.

Executive Editor
Alexandra Manoussos is a third-year student at Albany Law School on a Founders’ Scholarship. She is a liaison for the New York State Academy of Trial Lawyers and is currently working for a New York City personal injury firm as a law clerk. She previously clerked at the boutique firm of Powers & Santola, LLP.
Prior to law school, Alexandra earned Bachelor’s Degrees in English and Politics and International Affairs at Wake Forest University.  Between undergraduate school and law school, Alexandra worked as a Co-Director for field operations in a county political campaign. 

Executive Editor
Rachel Proctor
 
will graduate in December 2024 from Albany Law School. Prior to attending law school, Rachel earned a Bachelor’s Degree in economics and a Master of Business Administration at St. John’s University. 
Following the bar examination, Rachel will be working as an Attorney at a boutique Matrimonial and Family Law Firm that she has called home since 2018, The Law Firm of Poppe & Associates, PLLC, based in New York, NY.
In Rachel’s free time, she enjoys spending summers in the Hudson Valley with her family and friends, winemaking with her fiancé, Michael, and beagling at the local hunt club with her beagle, Nebbiolo.

Executive Editor
Andrew Fay is a second-year student at Albany Law School on a President’s Scholarship. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in both Physics and History at Davidson College, where his undergraduate dissertation examined developments in the Eisenhower Administration’s outer space policy following the launch of Sputnik I. In 2020, he graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Master of Science in Contemporary History, where he examined the Nixon Administration’s communications policy in Nixon’s first term. During and after the pandemic, Andrew worked in several administrative, policy, and appropriations roles in Washington, D.C., which inspired him to apply to law school.
After interning with the Chambers of Hon. Lawrence E. Kahn at the Northern District of New York this past summer, Andrew looks forward to continuing his legal education with an eye toward Constitutional Law and Civil Litigation. He currently serves as subeditor on the Albany Law Review, a fellow with the Government Law Center, and as a Sponsler Fellow for Civil Procedure.
_______________________________________
For previous years' boards, click HERE.