Sarahi Lim Baro spent June and July at the United Nation’s newly created Office of the Ombudsman. The Office was created a year and a half ago to address employee relations at the United Nations. Sarahi’s internship concentrated on reviewing cases of employee grievances and synthesizing the rulings by the UN’s Administrative Tribunal into an annual report that the Ombudsman Office presents to the Secretary-General and the General Assembly.

In addition to the annual report, her internship provided her numerous other opportunities. Working in a young and expanding office, Sarahi was invited to sit in on interviews of candidates for a new attorney position in the office. “I’ll be entering the workforce soon and it was very insightful to observe the hiring process from the employer’s perspective. As an employee of the UN, I also had the missions of every member state available to me. I met some fascinating and bright individuals from all over the world and a day at work rarely went by without a great conversation.”

Sarahi came to Miami from Cuba in the Mariel Boatlift of 1980. Prior to law school, she spent six years in Boston, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees in sociology at Boston University and Boston College.

After completing her first year of law school, Sarahi was a summer judicial intern at the U.S. District Court in Miami. During the fall of her second year, she interned at the Public Defender’s Office and the following spring she was a research assistant in the School of Law’s library, where she used her bilingualism to research and write on global terrorism and the International Criminal Court. The School of Law’s Career Planning Center was instrumental in all of the jobs she has found while at UM.

Sarahi is a student ambassador for the Office of Student Recruiting, a mentor for students at a local high school, Vice President of the International Law Society, and Lieutenant Governor of Planning/Events for the Law Student Division of the American Bar Association. Sarahi will graduate with her Juris Doctorate in May 2004 and will return to New York. She looks forward to gaining more experience in the international law arena and has been invited to return to the United Nations.