What was the most useful lawyering skill you developed as Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Law Journal?
This month – Joanna Allen, Third-Year Day Student Joanna Allen never thought that she could be a peacekeeper until she became involved in negotiation. She quickly realized she had an aptitude for it and admits that she gets a thrill out of convincing others to see her side’s point of view and eventually acquiesce to it. “Persuading someone that what you want is what they want as well, and that it is what’s best for everyone, and to do it nicely, is the best feeling,” she said. A Midwest native with a hunger for international travel and a talent for negotiation, Allen’s pathway to a legal education has been paved with ambition and achievement. She has three bachelors’ degrees from the University of Missouri-Columbia in Journalism-Advertising, Political Science, and Spanish. She spent a year during her undergraduate education studying abroad in Spain and speaks fluent Spanish. After graduating, she worked in international marketing for the Mexican department store Famsa, a job that broug
