By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated April 18, 2023
During his 2L year, Rehan Staton was on his way to class at Harvard Law School, and greeted a custodian as he passed, saying “Hi, how are you doing?”
As Staton recalled in a recent Washington Post profile, the custodian was shocked, replying “Me?” “Yes, you,” Staton replied, and she responded almost incredulously, “I’m sorry, I didn’t know you were talking to me,” adding “[s]tudents would usually rather look at the wall than talk to me.”
But, Staton is not your normal student walking the hallowed halls in the Cambridge, MA law school. In his former life, Staton was a sanitation worker, and “I remember what it’s like working that type of job,” stated Staton.
After completing his first year of law school, or 1L year, virtually, Staton finally arrived on campus and immediately engaged with not just his fellow students and faculty, “but he made a special effort with custodians, cafeteria workers and security staffers.”
“We text, we hug when we see each other, I call them aunts and uncles,”
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