As the year draws to a close, the Class of 2025 prepares to leave Sacred Heart Greenwich and venture outside the doors of King Street. Seniors Starr Boursiquot , Hazel Carrion and Sofia Latrille will continue their academic education by going on a pre-law track. These seniors explained how they chose this path and how Sacred Heart has prepared them for their future careers.
In the fall, Starr will attend North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. She plans to study as a history major with a concentration in law in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Starr also plans to add a political science or law and justice degree as a double major or minor. Starr explained what she hopes to do with her degree once she graduates.
“Looking ahead, I aspire to work to both navigate and create legal avenues to justice for potential clients,” Starr said. “I am interested in sectors of law that focus on serving vulnerable populations such as the elderly, people with disabilities, and those navigating the challenges of a low income. I am committed to aiding those who may not have easy access to legal resources, ensuring that they do not have to navigate the legal system and that they receive due justice. By producing and promoting initiatives that increase access to legal services, I hope to…positively influence the field of law and prioritize ethical standards across the board.”
While at Sacred Heart, Starr participated in the externship program, which connects Sacred Heart students with alumnae or parents for students to get a look at what a day would consist of in a professional career. She described how this experience helped solidify her desire to study law.
“Sacred Heart’s externship program has exposed me to the field of law and has confirmed my future interests in it,” Starr said. “Last summer, I went on a two-day externship to the Westchester County Court, serving as an extern to the Honorable Keri A. Fiore. Through this experience, I was able to observe Judge Fiore in her courtroom as she presided over multiple cases involving fragile issues such as custody disputes, divorce, and the equal distribution of marital assets.”
Sofia will study at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a philosophy, politics, and economics major. She hopes to become a patent lawyer and help inventors and companies legally protect their creations. Sofia explained why she wanted to be a part of the ways law and technology connect.
“I have always been interested in how laws and policies shape our lives, especially when it comes to new technologies,” Sofia said. “I decided to study philosophy, politics, and economics because it gives me the background I need to understand the systems that make decisions and pass laws. Politics also ties into law in so many ways, and I thought it would be a great way to understand the bigger picture behind legal systems, especially when it comes to things like intellectual property, which will be important in my future career.”
At Sacred Heart, Sofia has taken classes like AP US History and AP Comparative Government which have further developed her understanding in how politics can work with technology. The teachers at Sacred Heart have also helped Sofia by facilitate deeper discussions that push her and her classmates to think more critically about the material, which has assisted preparing her for a pre-law tract.
Next year, Hazel will be attending Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. From her four years at Sacred Heart, Hazel learned how to take action and through her community service, how to interact with people of diverse backgrounds. Through tutoring refugees in Afghanistan, Hazel has learned more about the refugee process and seen how the government works with these certain groups of people. With classes like AP comparative government taught by Mr. Meyer as a senior, she learned more about different countries and the way their governments work. Hazel spoke about why she decided to study global affairs in college.
“I am majoring in global affairs because I have always been interested in the way the government works,” Hazel said. “I believe the people who work for the government are such crucial members and the government needs more empathy. I want to be able to help marginalized communities that need more help…[I] want to help the government represent the people as a whole and not just a certain group.”
Feature Image by Gianna Rodrigues ’27
