Ida B. Wells Award Honoree
About Stesha A. Emmanuel

Stesha A. Emmanuel is a Partner at McCarter & English LLP and specializes in
product liability, pharmaceutical matters and employment law. She hails from
Boston, by way of Dorchester, where she attended Boston Public Schools and the
MATCH Charter High School. Ms. Emmanuel obtained a Bachelor of Arts in
Political Science and Africana Studies from Brown University in 2008. During
her time at Brown, she studied comparative politics and dance abroad at the
University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa. Ms. Emmanuel is a 2011
graduate of Northeastern University School of Law.
Ms. Emmanuel’s legal experience includes serving as a Judicial Law Clerk to the
Honorable Frederick L. Brown of the Massachusetts Appeals Court for two years.
She is licensed to practice law in the states of Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Ms. Emmanuel has been the recipient of several awards including the 2021 WBA
Emerging Women Leaders in the Law award; 2021 Massachusetts Lawyers
Weekly Excellence in the Law - Pro Bono, Get Konnected's Most Impactful
Black Women Leaders in Boston; 2020 Boston Business Journal Top 40 Under
40; and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly as an Up and Coming Lawyer in 2017.
Ms. Emmanuel is a former President of the Massachusetts Black Lawyers
Association and Director of the Women's Bar Association. Among the many titles
she holds, Stesha is happy to also wear the title of mom to five year old Evans and
five month old Isaiah with her husband Yvenson, whom she loves despite being a
fan of the Miami Dolphins as she is a diehard New England Patriots fan.