Since graduating Tufts and completing my two internships at the Department of Defense in the Acquisitions, Technology, and Logistics Department, I went to law school at Fordham Law, where I interned for the Neighborhood Defenders Service in Harlem, Queens County District Attorney's Office, the United States Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, and interned for Judge Charles Troia, when he was a City Court Judge and Judge Robert Patterson of the Southern District of New York. Upon graduation, I began working for the New York City Law Department, Labor and Employment Law Division where I tried two federal jury trials. I went to work at Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman, before going in-house at an aerospace lighting company and commercial auto startup. For the past two years, I have been building up my own law practice Mou Legal PLLC where I focus on client-centered representation in employment law, civil rights, general litigation, and federal criminal defense matters. For the past 10 years, I have served as an Adjunct Professor in Trial Advocacy at Fordham Law, which also prompted my wife to encourage me to start my practice and get back in the Courtroom on behalf of those in need.

All that is to say my journey from Tufts where I was involved in EPIIC '07 Global Crises, NIMEP (Fact-finding Missions- Syria, Israel), ALLIES, Tiufts Energy Forum, and Synaptic Scholars instilled a strong sense of mission in the service of others. Ambassador William Luers wrote one of my law school recommendation letters based on his class Talking with the Enemy. Indeed, the spirit of global citizenship is alive and well as my wife and I decided to forgo a traditional wedding and instead invited are friends abroad for a global dinner series. I proposed to her in Antarctica, we celebrated our engagement in Buenos Aires and had a wedding dinner series in Tunis, Edinburgh, Tokyo, and New York. Finally, we honeymooned in New Zealand. All of this is to say that the reason I stayed at Tufts was due to IGL's place as a second home during my time at Tufts.

My next trial in January involves a Chinese national charged with importing fentanyl precursors whose guidelines are a mandatory ten years to life sentence if convicted. This brings home the failed war on drugs and its shift to Asia, defending those caught in the middle of a policy chess match between China and the United States, and my own identity as a Taiwanese American. Forgiveness is something far too lacking in the American criminal justice system. Alas, life is beautiful and complicated.