# @harvard on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CAstnY5h_OV
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/21650768-harvard-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-05-27T16:50:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Harvard University (@harvard) — https://gondola.cc/harvard

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When graduate Lauren Beck was elected as the 133rd president of the Harvard Law Review in 2019, it was a significant achievement, and her election helped create an unprecedented statistical anomaly: In 2019, every flagship law review of the top 16 U.S. law schools elected a woman to lead it. If they had been selected at random, the chance of an all-female cohort would be less than .0016%.⠀
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After college Beck joined Codecademy, an educational startup that taught computer programming all over the world, largely for free. But Beck always had law school in the back of her mind, knowing that she wanted to pursue a career that combined writing and solving problems that mattered to people. Once she got to Harvard, her penchant for writing and high-stress atmospheres made her a good fit at the Harvard Law Review.⠀
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Beck and her colleagues focused on making the Law Review competition more inclusive for students with disabilities by working with representatives from the Disabled Law Students Association to improve the accommodations process. But, she also thought of accessibility more broadly, not just focusing on who edits the Law Review or which authors get published, but also as a metric for good writing. ⠀
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“Itʼs a very small act of social grace to write things in a way that doesn't make people feel stupid,” Beck says. “Thatʼs something that legal academia could get better at doing more consistently.”⠀
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We are highlighting some of the amazing graduates in the Class of #Harvard20⠀
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Photo by Martha Stewart

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