Alumni Dinner 2023

Debbie Epstein Henry ’94 is a lawyer turned entrepreneur, author, and public speaker with an expertise in women, careers, workplace dynamics, and law. Debbie runs DEH Consulting, Speaking, Writing and consults with and speaks at private retreats, public events, and conferences. Her international work includes engagements in Paris, Madrid, Vienna, The Hague, London, and more. Hundreds of news outlets have featured her work, including The New York Times, NBC Nightly News, The Wall Street Journal, and National Public Radio.

Debbie runs the DEH Speaker Series, hosting programming with thought leaders that draws hundreds to 1,000-plus participants per quarter. She also hosts the podcast Inspiration Loves Company, exploring how to do and be better at life, work, and everything in between. She wrote two best-selling books, Law & Reorder (author) and Finding Bliss (co-author), and she conceived of and co-ran the Best Law Firms for Women initiative for a decade.

Debbie built a national network of 10,000-plus lawyers and co-founded Bliss Lawyers. Nine years later, she co-facilitated the successful acquisition of Bliss by its largest competitor, Axiom, the global leader in high-caliber, on-demand legal talent.

Debbie is the co-founder and chair of Brooklyn Law School's Women’s Leadership Circle, which runs the Women’s Leadership Network, a national women’s law student and alumnae initiative. She is also the immediate past president of The Forum of Executive Women, a membership organization of the top 600 women in business in the greater Philadelphia region.

Debbie has received numerous awards, including the Anne X. Alpern Award, presented annually to a female lawyer who demonstrates excellence and makes a significant impact on women in the law. She received a B.A. from Yale and a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School, graduating cum laude in 1994. Debbie, a native New Yorker, recently returned with her husband to the New York area; they have three sons, Oliver, Spencer, and Theo.

Aubria Ralph ’19 is a midlevel banking and finance Associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP’s (“Weil”) New York office.

Aubria participates in advising borrowers, private equity sponsors, banks, and other financial institutions in a variety of financing transactions, including first- and second-lien credit facilities, middle market and large-cap financings, cross-border and domestic acquisition financings, liability management and debt restructuring transactions, and, more recently, crypto and ESG-adjacent transactions. Prior to joining Weil, Aubria was a private equity and finance associate at another international law firm, where she focused on private equity, general securities, syndicated debt financings, secured high-yield bond offerings, and sovereign debt offerings.

In addition to her banking and finance practice, Aubria maintains a robust pro bono practice where she primarily focuses on immigration, human trafficking survivor rights and individual rights cases, and has managed long-term litigation research projects to support the National Women’s Law Center and Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. She is also a member of the American Bar Association and the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York and has been an active member of the Brooklyn Tabernacle church for 13 years.

Aubria continues to be an active alumna, providing knowledge and resources to formal and informal mentees and served as one of the debt financing commentators in the Brooklyn Law School Business Boot Camp. During her time at Brooklyn Law School, Aubria was an Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Fellow and Martin Luther King Junior Scholar. She also served on Appellate Moot Court and the Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial and Commercial Law.

Before earning her J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 2019, Aubria received a B.A. in English and Chemistry and an M.A. in Medieval Studies from CUNY Brooklyn College and an M.A. in Non-profit Management and Finance from Regent University.