Meet the Faculty and Staff

Matthew Carluzzo

Director

JD, Georgetown University Law Center
AB, Dartmouth College

Professor Matthew Carluzzo joined the Vermont Law School faculty in 2010. He is the director of the Academic Success Program, where he designs and instructs courses that teach students the skills necessary to succeed in law school, on the bar exam, and in their future legal practice.

Professor Carluzzo earned an AB in Religion from Dartmouth College in 1997 and a JD from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2003. Upon graduation from law school, he joined the litigation practice group at the Washington, DC law firm of Arnold & Porter, where his practice comprised of large-scale civil and appellate products liability litigation. He later joined Gilbert LLP, also in Washington, DC, where he specialized in corporate insurance law. In 2006, Professor Carluzzo joined the AmeriCorps VISTA program, where he worked with Middlebury College's Alliance for Civic Engagement to lessen the causes and effects of poverty in rural Vermont. From 2007 to 2008, Professor Carluzzo served as the Dean of Cook Commons at Middlebury, a role in which he served as a primary resource to help students achieve success in their academic and personal lives.

Stefanie Sidortsova

Assistant Director

JD, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University
BA, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Professor Stefanie Sidortsova joined Vermont Law School in 2008 and is the assistant director of the Academic Success Program. She teaches Advanced Legal Analysis and provides group and individual workshops on exam writing, study skills, bar exam skills, and bar preparation.

Prior to joining VLS, Professor Sidortsova was a health care policy analyst for the Vermont Public Interest Research Group (VPIRG). She has experience in financing, commercial real estate, and corporate transactional matters, and is a member of the Arizona and Vermont state bars. Professor Sidortsova serves on the Vermont State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and is a member of the VPIRG board of trustees. She is also a co-founder and board member of The Jirani Project, a not-for-profit organization that assists vulnerable children in Kenya. She served as that organization's president from 2004-2009.

Professor Sidortsova received her JD in 2005 from the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where she served on the executive board of the law review and as a teaching assistant in the legal writing department. She received her BA in English from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Katrina Munyon

Program Coordinator

Katrina encourages students to visit the Academic Success office and take advantage of the resources and programs that are available. ASP focuses on helping law students discover their particular needs and learning styles while providing the academic tools that may guide you through the challenges of law school. Katrina is available to assist students with:

Scheduling an advising appointment with the director, assistant director or an ASP mentor.
Learning more about upcoming ASP events.
Borrowing study aids from the ASP resource collection.
Accessing information through the Academic Success and Pathway to Bar Passage TWEN sites.
Accessing CALI Lessons.