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ASECA Awards Almost $100,000 in Scholarships and Prizes at the 2016 Dinner
ASECA contributes money to six law schools and one undergraduate scholarship program.
These scholarships of $10,000 per year are awarded to a student who is either a current or former SEC employee, or intern or a student
who seeks to work at the SEC. To date, ASECA has awarded 92 law students approximately $400,000 in direct scholarships.
The 2016 ASECA Scholarship winners are:.
ASECA Student Scholarships:
Brooklyn Law School Scholarship
• Nicholas Crudele, Summer Honors Program (2015),
New York Regional Office
• Michael K. Piacentini, Fall Internship (2015),
Office of Enforcement, New York Regional Office
Georgetown University Law Center Scholarship
• Timothy Levenberg, Division of Corporation Finance,
Washington, DC
Howard University School of Law
• Devon Barnett
• Sasha DeCruise
Northwestern University School of Law Scholarship
• Angelo Miguel Aratan, Honors Law Program (current),
Division of Trading and Markets, Washington, DC
Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law Scholarship
• Jessica Ashley Riley
• Michael Andrews
Stanford Law School Scholarship
• Andrew Baker
Writing Competition Winners 2015:
• First Place: Kristin Giglia, “A Little Letter, A Big Difference:
An Empirical Inquiry Into Possible Misuse of Schedule 13G/13D
Filings” 116 COLUM. L. REV. 105 (2016).
• Second Place: Kaitlin A. Bruno, “The Halfway Point Between
Barbary Coast and Shangri-La: Extraterritoriality and the Viability
of the Economic Reality Method” 65 AM. U. L. REV. 435 (2015).
• Third Place: Tara E. Levens, “Too Fast, Too Frequent? High-
Frequency Trading and Securities Class Actions” 82 U. CHI. L.
REV. 1511 (2015).
SEC Staff Scholarships:
• LaTanya House-Simpson
Program Support Assistant
Division of Investment Management
• Chantelle E. Johnson
Program Specialist – Broker-Dealer Inspection Program
New York Regional Office
• Wakeya Thompson
Program Specialist – Securities Regulations Program
Division of Trading and Markets
Watch the Video
For those of you who wish to enjoy the 2016 Dinner again,
there is a highlights video that can be viewed at: https://
vimeo.com/user5095257/review/159819202/4327073a7c
or on our website at www.secalumni.org.
ASECA and NASDAQ to Host SEC
Alumni & Guests Reception
On Friday, November 4, ASECA and NASDAQ will
sponsor a reception at the offices of NASDAQ on Times
Square. More details to follow.
Former ASECA Board member Frank Razzano with local Law School Scholarship
winners and Writing Competition winners
SEC Staff and Alumni Deaths in 2015
Brown, Alling
Chamberlin, Mary Ellen
Cichinski, Stanley
Firth, Laurence
Giebel, Richard A.
Goldschmid, Harvey
Hartz, John Mitchell
Hegan, William H.
Heun, Howard Thurston
Hill, Alfred
Johanson, Elinor Brooker
LaPrade, Robert M. “Bob”
Lewand, Kevin O’Reilly
Madeoy, Albert
Maihle, Todd
Manger, William
Messina, Charles H. “Skip”
Mitchell. Michael R.
Morrison, Frank M.
Olvera, Claude C.
Paradise, Stephen J.
Phelps, Frances
Rae, Thomas Welsh
Roberts, Michelle
Rosse, Edward T.
Sacher, Barton Stuart
Seawell, Donald R
Shapiro, Lester J.
Shomette, Louis E. Jr.
Small, Diane G.
Stautberg, Aubrey T. “Ted”
Tygrett, Howard
Wander, Francis Herman