m Jissel Esparza Saucedo of Jonesboro has been selected to serve as editor in chief of the Arkansas Law Review for the 2023-24 academic year at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She will be the first person of color in the history of the publication to serve in this position. Esparza, a second-year student at the University of Arkansas School of Law, has served as an extern at Walmart Inc. in the tax department, as the fundraising director of the Women s Law Student Association and treasurer of the student chapter of the Animal Legal Defense Fund. She is a member of the law school s Anti-Racism Anti-Bias Task Force and was selected as the inaugural Mitchell Williams Legal Diversity Fellow. In her role as Fellow, Esparza works directly with the law school s director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging to foster a culture of inclusion through mentorship, recruitment and programming.
Denise Love, BSN, MBA, has a background in clinical, public health nursing and in health data analytics and policy. She has been in leadership positions since 1992 as an advocate for statewide health care data reporting programs. Ms. Love served as the Executive Director of the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) between 1999-2019, fulfilling NAHDO’s mission to promote the public availability and uniformity of health data by providing technical and advocacy support to statewide data systems.