The Council established an Alumni Association to enable all Fellows who complete the program to participate in Council programs around the country, receive Council publications, and mentor subsequent classes of Fellows.

Every five years, the Council hosts an alumni leadership conference to follow up with the Fellows to determine the impact of the program on their academic and professional careers. The most recent alumni meeting was held in April 2021 and resulted in the election of new officers and the development of regional alumni activities. Officers serve one-year terms.

Following are the biographies of the CAA Fellowship Alumni Association Officers.

Officers 2023 - 2024:

Donna Faye Imadi, President:

Donna-Faye is an Associate at Freshfields in their antitrust, competition, and trade practice, based in Washington, DC. Donna Faye assists clients with mergers, civil litigation, and trade. Her capabilities expand to working on counseling matters for ESG initiatives as well as filings to the Committee of Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

Prior to joining Freshfields, Donna Faye worked as a Law Clerk for two years with the Honorable Richard E. Moore at the 16th Judicial Circuit Court in the State of Virginia. Additionally, she was a Summer Law Clerk at the Federal Trade Commission’s Tech Enforcement Division. 

She serves as the President of the Council of American Ambassadors Annenberg Fellowship Alumni Association, as a former U.S CAA Annenberg Fellow at the US State Department in the Summer of 2018, invited to return from her previous role as an intern at the US State Department in 2017. She also formerly interned on the Capitol Hill in the House of Representatives.

During her time at the University of Virginia School of Law she was a New Writer for the Virginia Law Weekly, Vice President of Virginia Law Women, and recognized as a Ritter Scholarship Award Recipient for honor, character and integrity.

Luke Zaro, Vice President:
Luke is currently Deputy Chief Counsel for Oversight to the House Judiciary Committee.  His government experience includes serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Alice Batchelder of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and as special counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee during the confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. 

Before returning to the Hill, Luke was an associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher where his practice included congressional investigations, public policy matters, and enforcing arbitral awards against foreign states.  Luke was a CAA Annenberg Fellow during the summer of 2015 and is currently Vice President of the Alumni Association. He received his bachelor's degree from Fordham University and his master's and law degrees from the University of Virginia.

Fellows can connect through the CAA Fellowship Alumni LinkedIn Page.

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