Undergraduate: UC Santa Barbara
Cassie was born and raised in Palm Desert, California. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, graduating with Distinction as part of the class of 2021 with a quadruple-major (Philosophy, Comparative Literature, History of Public Policy and Law, and English) and a minor in Spanish. During her four-year undergraduate career, she worked her way up from an unpaid intern to a full-time caseworker at one of Santa Barbara's premier plaintiff's-side workers' compensation law firms while working various on-campus jobs (her favorite of which was running the intramural soccer program). Having the opportunity to support and advocate for members of the Latino community as they navigated the workers' compensation system inspired a love of the law in Cassandra, who knew from then that she was destined to become an attorney.
Immediately after graduating from UCSB, Cassandra moved to Manhattan to begin her employment at Citibank in the Regulatory Remediation space, where she stayed for three years to build up experience, reputation, and savings as an Assistant Vice President. She brought her knowledge of the corporate sphere to big law as an SEO Fellow at Jenner & Block's Los Angeles office during the summer of 2024.
Cassandra is ecstatic to finally kick off her law school journey at USC Gould and is honored to be included among such an accomplished group of Gold Honors Scholars. She is looking forward to learning, growing, and hopefully finding time to improve her ping pong game along the way.