By Christina C. Jefferson
Christina Jefferson, a 3L at Albany Law School, graduated from Niagara University, magna cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and Criminology and then earned a Master of Science in Criminal Justice Administration from Niagara as well.
At Albany Law, Christina was the winner of the 2022 Donna Jo Morse Client Counseling Competition, and she has served as both a Research Assistant for Professor Evelyn Tenenbaum and a Criminal Law Teaching Assistant for Professor Vincent Bonventre. She is currently a Law Clerk at Shaw, Perelson, May & Lambert, and she is also currently working toward her Private Investigator license in New York State.
Christina enjoys hiking and has a lifetime goal of visiting every National Park in the United States.
The Great Famine in Ireland obliterated the potato crop and starved a large portion of the Irish population from 1845 to 1849. A fungal disease named phytophthora infestans infected the entire crop and rendered the potatoes useless. At the time, the Irish relied heavily on their potato crop due to its heartiness and ability to grow well without additional resources. Potatoes were the staple crop of the Irish farmers, and roughly half the population relied on the crop for survival, especially the poor, rural communities.
By 1846, entire crops succumbed to the blight and were unusable. All told, it is estimated that between five hundred thousand and three million Irish people died as a result of The Great Famine. Some people question whether the British government did enough to help their colony of Ireland during the worst blight they had experienced.
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