Resume

KATIE KLAMANN

katieklamann@gmail.com

School Address

5452 S. Ellis Ave Apt. 2

Chicago, IL 60615

EDUCATION

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

B.A. in Law, Letters and Society, expected June 2010

Major GPA: 3.6/4.0

Overall GPA: 3.4/4.0

Awards: Dean’s List 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009

Notre Dame de Sion, Kansas City, MO

Diploma, 2006

EXPERIENCE

Beyond Credentials

Marketing and Advertising Intern, October 2009- Present

Marketed the website to students through contact with student organizations

Gathered student feedback on the website

Planned and executed a successful launch event on campus.

John Crerar Library, University of Chicago

Technical Processing, January 2008 – August 2009

Repaired and corrected spine labels on new and used books and assign bookplates to new titles

Prepared and shipped journals to the bindery as well as received and process newly bound journals

Barcoded unprocessed titles

Worked up to 15 hours a week

Library Assistant, Winter 2008

Organized and prepared books to be shelved, shelved books in proper location and picked up used and      discarded books

Input returned books to library database

Assisted patrons

Super Summer Sports Camp, University of Chicago

Summer Counselor, June - July 2008

Supervised and engaged twenty-two ten year old individuals

Settled disputes, as well as provided instruction on sportsman-like conduct as well as athletic practices.

Klamann and Hubbard P.A.

Leawood, KS

Intern Intermittently May 2002- Jan. 2009

Organized relevant documents for trial preparation including discovery and Hotdocs

Researched pertinent information including medical and corporate information

Planned and executed various presentations of research

LEADERSHIP

University of Chicago Women’s Varsity Soccer Team

Member September 2006 – November 2009

Awards: All Conference Academic Team 2007, 2008, 2009;

Notre Dame de Sion High School - Student Government

President September 2005- May 2006

Organized Food for Thought, a canned food drive that benefitted Redemptorist Church, and raised over 5,000 food items.

Vice President September 2004- May 2005

Secretary September 2003- May 2004

My Personality

Writing Samples

The following is an excerpt from a paper written for PostWar U.S. Literature on the novel, Beloved:

This struggle is at the heart of Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Even before he learns of the tragic event that occurred at 124 almost eighteen years ago, Paul D notes Sethe’s intense and potentially dangerous, propensity for love, “For a used-to-be-slave woman to love anything that much was dangerous, especially if it was her children she had settled on to love.” (45) Paul D’s words ring all too true when Morrison reveals that almost twenty years ago, Sethe’s love for her children motivated her to attempt to kill them when she thought that they would be re-enslaved. She succeeded only with one before she was stopped, leaving the other three children to cope with the consequences of her actions. Sethe’s intense love for her children is a reaction to the alienation implemented by slavery and the murder of her daughter was a desperate attempt to save her. A more controversial expression of love is difficult to fathom and Morrison must find a way to help her characters cope with the effects of a system that can warp something as basic and human as love. Morrison chooses to do so by bringing Sethe’s baby girl back from the dead, confronting her with the damage that slavery has done to her, including the consequences faced by those members who attempt to love in a system built to destroy.

The following is an excerpt from my senior thesis:

In addition to Stephenson’s argument regarding the presence of overt expressions of Lumpkin’s predilections in his opinions, there is also the evidence that Lumpkin departs from the law. Smith v. Dunwoody, for example, is one case in which Lumpkin breaks a fundamental principle of probate. He says in Choice v. Marshall (Choice v. Marshall 1846 Ga. LEXIS 45) in 1846, “[I]t is conceded that the cardinal rule in the construction of wills is – that the intention of the testator shall govern.”[1] However, in Smith v. Dunwoody, Lumpkin rules against a will that dictates that every tenth slave born will be manumitted upon their eighteenth birthday and given to the American Colonization Society saying this part of the will, “is repugnant to the rights of property in the legatees.”[2] He goes on to state that the Georgia Supreme Court will “do all we can in this and every other case, to give that direction to property which is agreeable to the best feelings, affections and reasons of mankind.”[3] Therefore, Lumpkin’s assertion concerning the cardinal rule of wills in Choice v. Marshall is inconsistent with his findings in Smith v. Dunwoody. The ruling in Smith v. Dunwoody places the property rights of the legatees above the intention of the testator, violating the paramount rule in probate. Lumpkin’s opinion in Smith v. Dunwoody, therefore, is a prime example of Lumpkin’s tendency to shy away from the dictates of the law in order to overrule manumission.