“Mia” Wessel is a case manager at Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP.
Prior to joining the firm, Mia interned in the Chambers of Judge Joseph A. Greenaway Jr., United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and in the Special Litigation Bureau at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. She was also a Legal Research Intern for DC Volunteer Lawyers Project and a Campaign Intern for Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) for Congress.
Mia received her B.A. in History from Columbia College of Columbia University. She received Departmental Honors for her thesis entitled “Beyond the Vote: Black Women’s Klan Testimonies in the Context of the Federal South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872."