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Jessica Chia is the NAPABA Law Foundation Partners and In-House Counsel Community Law Fellow at the Asian American Justice Center.
Prior to joining AAJC, Ms. Chia was a law clerk at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. Previously she clerked at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center in Los Angeles. Ms. Chia also served as an extern to federal magistrate judge Edward M. Chen, who President Obama has nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Before attending law school, she spent a year working on immigration-related cases for the San Francisco-based law firm Berry Appleman & Leiden. She also worked as a legal intern for the Justice Department and the California Attorney General’s Office.
Ms. Chia holds a juris doctorate from the University of California-Los Angeles and a bachelor’s degree, with honors, from the University of California-Davis.
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The NAPABA Law Foundation is pleased to announce its 2013 NLF Public Interest Internship Program. The internship program will fund at least two legal interns at a public interest organization(s) that provides either direct legal services or impact litigation on behalf of the Asian Pacific American community. Qualified organizations may apply for more than one internship and grants of up to $6,000 per intern will be provided to the finalist organization(s).
Click here to download the application.
Please note that the strict deadlines below:
** APPLICATIONS DUE ELECTRONICALLY 6:00 EDT/9:00 PDT APRIL 8, 2013. **
March 18 – April 8, 2013
Applications for host organization submitted
April 19, 2013
Host organization(s) chosen by grant making panel
April 22 – 26, 2013
Host organization(s) interns interviewed
May 1, 2013
Finalists chosen
Summer 2013 (10 weeks)
Internship begins at host organization(s)
If you have any questions after reviewing the application, please email nlfstaff@napaba.org.
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The NAPABA Law Foundation is pleased to announce that Jessica Chia, a recent graduate of the UCLA School of Law, will be the next NAPABA Law Foundation Partners and In-House Counsel Community Law Fellow. Jessica will begin her two year fellowship at the Asian American Justice Center in Washington, D.C. this September.
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2010
Ami Hong Nguyen
UCLA School of Law, Class of 2011
Stanford University, Class of 2008
Aida S. Macedo
University of California Davis School of Law Class of 2011
University of California Irvine, Political Science & Chicano Studies Class of 2007
2009
Sarah Ihn
University of California, Berkeley, Class of 2010
Jacqueline Dan
University of California, Los Angeles, Class of 2010
2008
Sophia Lai
Harvard Law School, Class of 2009
Harvard University, Social Studies, Class of 2004
Cheryl Andrada
University of California, Berkeley, Class of 2010
Stanford University, Linguistics, Class of 2002
2007
Masako Oishi
Golden Gate University, Class of 2009
University of California, San Diego, Psychology and Ethnic Studies, Class of 1998
Grace Lee
UCLA School of Law, Class of 2009
UCLA, Asian American Studies / History, Class of 2004
2006
Lourdes Barrera
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, Class of 2007
Andrew Houston
University of California Hastings College of Law, Class of 2007
2004
Alberta Lee, U.C. Davis Law School
Shaffy Moeel, UCLA School of Law
Debra Sudo, American University School of Law
2003
Avantika Shastri
University of California, Berkeley, Class of 2004
2001
Minah Park, Loyola Law School, Class of 2002
Kathleen Park, Stanford University School of Law, Class of 2002
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