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“I want to work with people, and I want to help people. I want to be with people, and I want the work I do to be impactful for people.”
-- Emma Sisti
“Everybody thinks it’s the big murder cases that are the most memorable. I say no -- the ones that really make a difference are the ones with young people that caught themselves in something totally unexpected, tragic and you’re able to give them a second chance. You give
someone a second chance and they never forget it.”
- - Mark Sisti
in the world of public defense, where they represent people caught up in a big and sometimes bureaucratic sys- tem. Both describe themselves as “people persons.” Both focus on a solid balance of work and family. Both share respect and help the individuals they represent.
MARK L. SISTI (’06) was born in Buffalo, New York, and received his B.A. from Canisius College in Buffalo in 1976. Mark worked fulltime as a union ironworker throughout his undergraduate years while carrying a full credit load at school, earning enough to pay for his undergraduate degree. He toiled on skyscrapers hundreds of feet in the air, like many of his peers from the working-class neighborhood where he was raised.
Mark was the first in his immediate family to complete his college degree, and he knew that while ironworking was a good job, he wanted to continue his education and immediately matriculated at Franklin Pierce Law Center (now the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law in Concord, NH) for law school, graduating in 1979.
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