Indian-American women became the president of Harvard Law Review

Apsara Iyer, first women of the community in that role

According to The Harvard Crimson, Apsara Iyer was elected the 137^th president of  the Harvard Law Review on Monday. The Harvard Law Review which was founded in 1877 and is one of the oldest student-run legal scholarship publications. 

Iyer is an Indian American second year student at Harvard Law School and she is the first Indian origin women to be named in the said position . Iyer said in The Crimson report that as Law Review president, she aims to “include more editors in the process of reviewing and selecting articles and upholding the publication’s reputation for “high-quality” work.”

Former President Barack Obama and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg are among Iyer’s  distinguished predecessors. Iyer’s immediate predecessor Priscila Coronado said the publication is “extremely lucky” to have Iyer at the helm. "Apsara has changed the lives of many editors for the better, and I know she will continue to do so," Coronado said. "From the start, she has impressed her fellow editors with her remarkable intelligence, thoughtfulness, warmth, and fierce advocacy."

Iyer has previously been a member of the  Harvard Human Rights  Journal and the National Security Journal at the Law School, as well as the South Asian Law Students Association. She is also a Yale graduate with a bachelors degree in Economics and Maths and Spanish. The Crimson also said that Iyer’s interest in understanding the “value of cultural heritage” led her to work in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit that tracks stolen works of art and artifacts as well.