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CA Bar Foundation awards 51 Diversity Scholarships

By Richard Binder

The California Bar Foundation will award $282,500 in scholarships to 51 law students at a reception today at the offices of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in Los Angeles.

A spokesperson for the foundation said yesterday that a total of $180,000 will be divided among 28 incoming first-year law students from communities historically under-represented in the legal profession and $102,500 will be given to 23 students committed to public interest careers.

Foundation President Mario Camara said the Diversity Scholarship winners include community organizer working to increase access to higher education for immigrant students, a health care specialist who has worked on HIV/AIDS initiatives in Rwanda and Kenya, an asylee from Somalia with an expressed interest in international human rights law, an anthropologist who says he plans to combine his expertise in Native American cultural heritage with his law degree to strengthen tribal sovereignty, and a woman who overcame poverty and domestic violence in her childhood who says she wants to become an immigration attorney.

Full story at Metropolitan News-Enterprise.

Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on September 30, 2010 (boomark / email).