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Harvard Law student overcomes abuse, gives back

By Mary Carmichael

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 22, 2012

Matt Schoenfeld has the kind of resume that makes employers swoon: president of his class at Columbia University, well-liked at Harvard Law School, research assistant to Larry Summers. But his more distant past was darker. His mother abused him during a divorce battle so intense that police were often called to intervene. Now Schoenfeld is turning his personal history into an advantage, transforming a student group at Harvard into a fundraising machine for Big Brothers Big Sisters.

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