Professor Alan Y. Medvin
Head Coach
Alan, a life-long resident of Princeton, retired in 2013 after a successful 41 year career as a New Jersey trial lawyer in private practice during which time he tried approximately 150 cases to verdict. In addition to trying cases in New Jersey, he tried cases to verdict in New York, Ohio and Wisconsin. In 1984 he was elected President of the New Jersey Chapter of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America and in 2008 he was awarded its Gold Medal for Distinguished Service. He taught trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at the Rutgers University School of Law in Newark and for six years sat on the Board of Governors of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, where he served as the Chair of the Professional Negligence Section, Chair of the Committee on Ethics and Discipline and Vice-Chair of the Torts Section. In New Jersey, Alan was appointed to ten consecutive two year terms on the Civil Practice Committee by the Chief Justice of the NJ Supreme Court.
After his retirement in 2013, Alan became the volunteer head coach of Princeton University Mock Trial until the Princeton administration eliminated the service of all volunteer staff positions in the summer of 2020. In addition to volunteering in the mock trial world, he volunteers as a Case Developer at Centurion, located in Princeton, the world’s first organization devoted to freeing men and women serving life in prison for crimes they did not commit, and also volunteers as a Wish Grantor at Make-A-Wish NJ.
Camryn Curnuck
Camryn Curnuck graduated summa cum laude from Rider University in 2023 with a B.S.B.A. in Health Care Management. She served as Competition Captain of Rider’s brand-new Mock Trial team during her senior year, and is thrilled to have been asked to continue working with the team as an assistant coach. Camryn helped lead the team to a 7-1 record at the Princeton Regionals while winning an outstanding attorney award. Rider's incredible record at Regionals qualified the team to compete at the Opening Round Championship Series (ORCS), something very few teams have done in their first year of competition.
Camryn began her career at Rider as a BFA musical theatre major but switched to business as a result of the onset of the pandemic. She became interested in mock trial because of its emphasis on performance, originally thinking that she would enjoy playing a witness, but after a short time became interested in the role of an attorney.
Camryn now works for Elevance Health and will eventually be applying to law school. She considers her time as a mock trial attorney for the Rider team to have been a life changing experience.
Professor Micah Rasmussen
Faculty Advisor
Micah Rasmussen is the director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics. He has contributed to the public affairs of the state for more than two decades, and has more than 15 years of experience as an adjunct professor of political science.
As Governor James E. McGreevey’s press secretary, he handled crisis communications during the Governor’s historic resignation. He has served as communications director for the New Jersey Department of Transportation, worked in the New Jersey General Assembly, and managed several political campaigns.
Most recently, Rasmussen served as vice president for executive communications at Chubb, where he wrote speeches for audiences throughout the world. He previously served as director of corporate communications for New Jersey Resources and its primary subsidiary, New Jersey Natural Gas. He led the crisis communications that kept affected customers, public officials and the media informed throughout widespread system damages in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
During his undergraduate studies at Rider, Dr. Rebovich was his professor and mentor. He earned his Master of Arts in Political Science from the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University.
Rasmussen runs the New Jersey Model Congress, a civics education program he founded. He lives with his wife and three daughters in Upper Freehold Township, where he advocates for the preservation of farmland and open space.