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Philanthropists Bruce (L’80) and Ann Blume made a gift of $10 million to establish the Blume Public Leadership Institute at Georgetown University Law Center. Through the Blume Institute, it was their intention to support Law Center students who exhibit exceptional promise as future public leaders by providing financial and professional support. These Blume Public Interest Scholars will engage in traditional and experiential legal studies, while training for lives as public officials, policy makers, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries. A 1980 graduate of Georgetown Law, Bruce Blume serves on its Board of Visitors and the Georgetown University Board of Directors. On the occasion of making their gift to Georgetown Law Center, Bruce Blume said, “For Ann and me, the concept of providing scholarships in perpetuity to the top students in the country in public... Georgetown University has announced a $10 million gift from Bruce (L'80) and Ann Blume (Parents '08, '20) to establish a public leadership institute.

The largest one-time commitment in the history of Georgetown Law will establish the Blume Public Leadership Institute at Georgetown University Law Center and provide full-tuition scholarships to students who exhibit exceptional promise as future... Blume Scholars will engage in traditional and experiential legal studies while training for lives of service as public officials, policy makers, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries. A 1980 graduate of Georgetown Law, Bruce Blume serves on the law school's board of visitors and the Georgetown University board of directors. He is founder and chair of Blume Company Real Estate, a development firm that has helped transform Seattle's skyline, and previously worked as an attorney, clerked for U.S. District Court Chief Judge Walter T. McGovern, and served as a legislative aide to U.S.

Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-WA). He also serves on the boards of the Seattle Art Museum and the University of Washington Foundation. Ann Blume is a graduate of Cornell University, a former staff assistant to U.S. Sen.

Bob Packwood (R-OR) and U.S. Sen. Slade Gorton (R-WA). She serves on Seattle University's board of trustees and College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Council, as well as on the Cornell University College of Human Ecology Advisory Council. Together, the couple founded the Bruce and Ann Blume Fund, which supports public health, educational, and environmental endeavors. "Ann and Bruce's extraordinary vision and transformational generosity are truly inspiring," said Georgetown Law dean William M.

Treanor. "By enabling Georgetown to attract and educate the next generation of public interest leaders, the Blume Institute aligns perfectly with our Jesuit tradition of service." Ann Blume is a community leader living in Seattle, Washington. She currently serves on Seattle University’s Board of Trustees and the College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Council. Ann also was on the SightLife Board, the University of Washington’s Center for Infant Mental Health and Development Council and Teens in Public Service Board. After graduating from Cornell University with a Biology and Nutrition degree in 1978, Ann moved to Washington D.C.

where she helped implement the first generation of personal computers as a staff assistant to Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon. Ann met her husband, Bruce, while working in the U.S. Senate. In 1982, Bruce and Ann founded the Blume Company, a Seattle real estate development business which has helped transform Seattle’s South Lake Union, University, Eastlake and Fremont neighborhoods. The parents of five children, they share a passion for family, public policy, and philanthropy. Mary Luke has 35 years of executive management experience in women’s reproductive health, rights and development programs.

She held executive leadership positions in NGOs in women’s reproductive healthcare, opening offices and managing programs in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Mary brings expertise in strategic planning, advocacy, program and budget management and fundraising to the board. She began her career in reproductive healthcare at Planned Parenthood in San Francisco and went on to a 24 year international career in women’s reproductive health and development. She currently serves on the Board of Directors at UN Women USA and PowHer NY and on the Advisory Board of Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy. Alex Aleinikoff is a professor at The New School in New York City and Director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. Before coming to The New School, Alex served as United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees (2010-15) and was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, where he also served as dean and Executive...

He was co-chair of the Immigration Task Force for President Barack Obama’s transition team in 2008. From 1994 to 1997, he served as the general counsel, and then executive associate commissioner for programs, at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). He brings with him immeasurably valuable experience with asylum law. Married to our founder, Dr. Rachel Cohen, Mr. Aleinikoff has been an enthusiastic supporter of CTP from the beginning, and looks forward to helping us in our mission to offer survivors the best possible treatment!

Patty Friedman is a retired pediatric geneticist who has been active in her retirement with a variety of volunteer activities. In addition to her work as a geneticist, Patty is a trained forester and naturalist and a certified yoga instructor. She fulfills her interest in patient care with hospice work and her love of the outdoors with work for the Audubon Naturalist Society. She as been a great supporter of Common Threads since its beginning and she looks forward to being more active now that she is a board member. Maureen Brotherton currently sits on Seattle University’s Board of Trustees and Achon Uganda Children’s Board. Service includes past President of Seattle Rotary Service Foundation Board and continued membership in Seattle Rotary/Rotary International.

Maureen was past chairman of Seattle University’s Board of Regents an Seattle University’s College of Arts and Sciences’ Leadership Council. When her children were young she served for several years on Seattle Children’s Hospital’s Uncompensated Care Board as well as The Villa Academy Board of Trustees. She has a BA in Society and Justice, University of Washington and a master’s degree in Not-for-Profit Leadership from Seattle University. Maureen co-founded, with her daughter Tia, Teens In Public Service (TIPS) in 1997. Maureen and her husband, Joe, are the proprietors of Doe Bay Resort & Retreat located on Orcas Island. Ann Blume joined the Board in 2007 and has served as Development Committee Chair since 2009.

She also serves on boards that include Seattle University's College of Arts and Sciences Leadership Council and the University of Washington's Center for Infant Mental Health and Development. A graduate of Cornell University, she met her husband Bruce while working in the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C. The parents of five children, they share a passion for family, public policy, and philanthropy. The Blume family traveled with SightLife to Africa to see firsthand the profound impact that cornea transplants have on the lives of those who are cornea blind. Their gift to SightLife to further this mission of restoring sight and eliminating cornea blindness is the largest-ever donation to global eye bank development.

It is the catalyst in furthering SightLife's mission to help the world to see. Philanthropists Bruce (L’80) and Ann Blume made a gift to establish the Blume Public Leadership Institute at Georgetown University Law Center. Through the Institute, the Blume Public Interest Scholars Program provides financial and programmatic support to students who exhibit exceptional promise as future public interest leaders. Blume Public Interest Scholars engage in traditional and experiential legal studies, while training for their careers as public interest advocates, public officials, policy makers, thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and visionaries. Blume Scholars engage in a combination of academic coursework, clinical pedagogy, and tailored experiential learning opportunities. Blume Scholars also engage in cultivated public interest community building and career development programming, including Public Interest Orientation.

The Blume program at Georgetown Law is co-directed by Georgetown Professor and Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic Director Brian Wolfman, who serves as the Blume Faculty Director, and by Morgan Lynn-Alesker, Assistant Dean in the... The Blume Public Interest Scholars Program, originally named the Public Interest Law Scholars (PILS) program, began in 1988 as an enriched academic and professional development program for select students who intended to pursue public... The program quickly became the foundation of a public interest community that 30 years later boasts a standalone public interest career office (OPICS), guaranteed public service summer funding, the top-ranked clinical program, and one... PILS itself has grown and adapted since its auspicious beginning. In 1996, the program began offering partial tuition scholarships in order to help minimize the debt burden of PILS members, and in 2017 expanded to offer up to ten full tuition scholarships. In 2018, the program received a naming gift from Bruce (L’80) and Ann Blume and is now known as the Blume Public Interest Scholars Program.

In 2024, the program will once again shift to increase the size of the cohort to 20 students and to refocus the financial support for students towards summer and postgraduate funding. This shift comes in part due to the strengthening of Georgetown’s nationally leading Loan Repayment Assistance Program and the federal Income-Driven Repayment and Public Service Loan Forgiveness programs, which empower borrowers committed to service... Though the contours of the program have changed over the years and the larger Georgetown Law public interest community has grown substantially, one thing has remained constant — the commitment of the scholars themselves. Today, the vast majority of PILS/Blume Scholars continue to serve in the public interest. And a number of PILS/Blume alumni have returned to Georgetown as faculty (Erica Hashimoto, L’97), administrators (Morgan Lynn-Alesker, L’07), speakers (R. Daniel Okonkwo L’05, Whiquitta “Kee” Tobar L‘15, Adina Appelbaum L‘15, Elizabeth Keyes L‘04, and Gretchen Rohr L‘03), and visiting scholars through the Blume Leaders in Residence program (Sarah Craven L’92).

The Blume Public Interest Scholars Program has two dedicated memorial scholarships that support current Blume Scholars. The Financial Aid Office determines the annual enrolled Blume Scholar recipients of these scholarships based on submitted FAFSA materials.

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