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At the annual dinner of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, held in Scottsdale, Arizono on November 17, the NAPABA Law Foundation announced the recipients of their annual law scholarship and fellowship awards in recognition of those law students who have demonstrated leadership and commitment to the Asian Pacific American community.
Anheuser-Busch NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholarships - $5,000
Angela Okamura
McGeorge School of Law, 2004
A 1998 graduate of University of California, Davis, Angela Okamura
has a long history of involvement and leadership in the APA communities
in which she has lived as well as at her schools. While at UC Davis,
she formed the Asian Pacific American Political Association to inform
the UC Davis campus about APA student needs and to advocate constructive
changes. Among her numerous other activities, Angela was a Planning
Board member of the Japanese Cultural Club, Volunteer Chair of the Japanese
Cultural Club, and Planning Board member of the Asian Pacific Islander
Leadership Conference at UC Davis, and a Founding Board member and Chief
Editor of the Newsletter of the Asian American Student Association at
Cal State Sacramento. For the last three years she has been working
as a Research Associate at UC San Francisco while continuing to volunteer
to support, among others, the March of Dimes, Special Olympics, the
Japantown Cultural Festival, and the Sacramento Public Library Literacy
Program, and to act as an Advocate in the Court Appointed Special Advocate
Program in Sacramento.
Erin Oshiro
UCLA School of Law, 2004
Erin Oshiro is a 1999 graduate of UCLA. Prior to attending law school,
Erin was a Judicial Administration Fellow with Cal State Sacramento.
In that role, she conducted a study of the operations of the Los Angeles
Superior Court which may lead to major changes to improve the accessibility
of court services to the community. While an undergraduate at UCLA,
Erin worked as an intern with the Asian Pacific American Legal Center
in Los Angeles where she was responsible for workshops to provide low
income workers, primarily Chinese and Latino, with information about
their employment rights. She played an important role in the historic
Thai garment workers’ case and was recognized for her efforts and leadership
by APALC which gave her their Annual Pro Bono Award in 1999. She has
continued her involvement in the APA community with her work at the
Little Tokyo Service Center and the Asian Pacific Policy & Planning
Center.
NAPABA Law Foundation Scholarships - $2,000
Julie Chen
University of Texas at Austin School of Law, 2004
A graduate of the journalism program at the University of Texas, Austin,
Julie Chen has written for several newspapers and publications. She
has also taught English to students in Kowloon, China, and assisted
students at Hong Kong Baptist University. While an undergrad, Julie
co-chaired the Asian Cultural Committee which raised funds and sponsored
speakers at the University of Texas.
Jae Choi-Kim
DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, 2002
A 1983 graduate of the University of Chicago, Jae Choi-Kim has been
a leader in the Asian and Korean American business community. Her numerous
accomplishments include being President of the Montrose Irving Chamber
of Commerce, organizing a choral concert that raised $25,000 to aid
torched Black churches in the South, and organizing press conferences
as President of the Korean American Citizens Coalition during the events
surrounding the Rodney King verdict. She has undertaken many projects
to bring together the diverse communities in this country, including
work with the American Jewish Committee, the Illinois Ethnic Coalition
and the Japanese American Citizens League.
Michael Anh Dang
University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, 2003
Michael Dang developed an English curriculum for Vietnamese refugees
while working at a refugee camp in Hong Kong, interned at the Southeast
Asia Resource Action Center in Washington D.C. analyzing legislation
affecting Southeast Asian Americans, and volunteered to assist the Asian
Law Caucus with their fundraising. His undergraduate independent research
project was a field study on violence and drug abuse in the Hong Kong
refugee camp.
Jae-Min Han
University of Pennsylvania Law School, 2002
Jae-Min Han is a 1997 graduate of the State University of New York
— Binghamton and has studied at Moscow State University. She was
Editor-in-Chief of Asian Outlook in Binghamton, a member of a Korean
folk drumming troupe, and a Team Administrator at the Bronx Defenders
office. Jae-Min also worked as an intern with Human Rights Watch in
New York City.
Anh Nguyen
Seattle University School of Law, 2003
A 1996 graduate of University of Washington, Anh Nguyen has taught
English to Vietnamese immigrants with Helping Hand, counseled battered
women with the Women Center of New York, and worked as a legal assistant
with the International District Legal Clinic in Seattle. She has also
worked as a field producer with KVBC News in Las Vegas and KATU News
in Portland, Oregon, taught English at the Vietnam National University
in Ho Chi Minh City and participated in the NAPABA Law Foundation’s
Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition the last two years.
Avantika Rao
UC Davis Martin Luther King, Jr. School of Law, 2002
Avantika Rao received her BA from Wellesley in 1998 and has studied
at the University of Wisconsin’s India Program in Bunaras and at the
University of Pune, both in India. She has worked tirelessly with community
service organizations: the Family Protection Clinic in Woodland, California,
the Legal Services Employment Clinic in Sacramento, the Asian Law Caucus
in San Francisco, the Immigration Law Clinic at UC Davis.
Charmagne Topacio
Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2002
While studying at Loyola University Chicago, where she graduated 1999,
Charmagne Topacio was Vice President of the Chinese-American Student
Alliance, an organization that she helped revive after being abandoned.
She was also Council President of the East Village Youth Program, and
was an officer of the Loyola University South Side Government Association.
While at law school, she is Vice President of the Asian Pacific American
Law Students’ Association, was a judicial extern in the ABA’s Minority
Judicial Externship Program and is a Pro Bono Clinic Volunteer with
Asian Human Services in Chicago.
Pao Yang
Hamline University School of Law, 2002
Pao Yang graduated from Concordia University in St. Paul, Minnesota
in 1999. He was a Students of Color Recruiter for Concordia, a legislative
intern for Rep. Andy Dawkins of the Minnesota House of Representatives
and a Coordinator for the Asian American Census Awareness Committee.
At Concordia, he was also President of the Southeast Asian Student Association
and Co-Captain of the men’s soccer team. At Hamline University School
of Law, Pao is Vice President of the Asian-Pacific American Law Student
Association and Student Representative for the Hmong Bar Association.
Judge Robert M. Takasugi Fellowships for Public Interest Law $5,000
The NAPABA Law Foundation supports a public interest fellowship program in honor of United States District Court Judge Robert M. Takasugi to
recognize his many years of dedication, commitment and service to the
Asian Pacific American legal community.
Minah Park
Loyola Law School, 2002
As the 2001 Takasugi Fellow for Southern California, Minah worked with
the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles in their Housing Improvement
Project. There, Minah assisted Legal Aid counsel in various stages of
litigation as well as participated in a community outreach program focused
on educating Korean-speaking tenants of their housing rights. Minah
also interviewed tenants to help identify “slum” buildings that the
Housing Improvement Project targeted through litigation.
Kathleen Park
Stanford University School of Law, 2002
The 2001 Takasugi Fellow for Northern California found herself dedicating
her summer to her work with immigrants at the Lawyer’s Committee for
Civil Rights in San Francisco. Through the Lawyer’s Committee, Kathleen
interviewed and provided direct legal services to Ethiopian, Chinese
and Vietnamese immigrants and refugees. She also assisted Lawyer’s Committee
attorneys in its Asylum Program and in combatting the unlawful detention
of immigrants by law enforcement.
2000 Anheuser-Busch NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholars
Anheuser-Busch NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholarships
Ms. Diana May Lin
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., Class of 2004
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Master’s in
Public Policy, 1998
Pomona College, B.A. 1993
As a student at Pomona College, Diana Lin worked to establish an Asian
American Student Resource Center and advocated for the hiring of the
school’s first full-time Asian American Studies professor. She continued
her advocacy on issues affecting Asian Pacific Americans: at Asian Americans
for Equality, where she supported the rights of Asian immigrants; as
fundraising co-chair for the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership
where she raised funds for Asian American internships; as a Legislative
Correspondent for Senator Carol Moseley-Braun where she worked on legislation
to improve inner city schools; and at the Ford Foundation where she
developed a program to increase jobs for young professionals in social
justice organizations. She has also held internships at the MacArthur
Foundation and the Department of Human Services for San Francisco. She
is currently a Public Interest Law Scholar at Georgetown University
Law Center.
Ms. Michelle Tong
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, California,
Class of 2001
University of California at Santa Cruz, B.A. 1996
Nankai University, People’s Republic of China 1994
Michelle Tong has been a strong advocate for Asian Pacific Americans
through her work as an intern with the Asian Law Alliance while in college,
and as a paralegal for three years with the Asian Law Caucus. In these
positions, she has assisted Asian immigrants with issues involving immigration,
employment rights, domestic violence, housing and civil rights. At the
McGeorge School of Law, Ms. Tong has been a member and leader of the
Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, the Unity Board and
the Black Law Students Association.
NAPABA Law Foundation Scholarship
Mr. Andre Geverola
University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, Class of 2003
University of California, San Diego, B.S. 2000
While studying at the University of California, San Diego, Andre Geverola
worked as an Executive Assistant for the San Diego Association of Mortgage
Brokers where he was instrumental in organizing community service activities
and volunteered his time for Habitat for Humanity and Kidfest, an event
featuring free fingerprinting of children. At the same time, Andre worked
with the Upward Bound program to assist inner city students, first as
a teaching assistant for chemistry and algebra, then as a tutor, and
finally as a chemistry instructor; he created and taught a general chemistry
curriculum.
Judge Robert M. Takasugi Fellowships For Public Interest AW
The NAPABA Law Foundation participated in the formation this year of
a public interest fellowship program in honor of United States District
Court Judge Robert M. Takasugi to recognize his many years of dedication,
commitment and service to the Asian Pacific American legal community.
Mr. Do Kim
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, Los Angeles, California,
Class of 2002
For work at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on projects including fighting
racial profiling by the Los Angeles Police Department and increasing
police officer accountability.
Ms. Rebecca Yee
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, Los Angeles, California,
Class of 2001
For work at the CWLC, the California Women's Legal Center creating
policy which will protect the civil rights of parenting and pregnant
teens in high schools across California.
Ms. Hayne Yoon
New York University School of Law, New York, New York, Class of 2001
For work at the Asian Law Caucus, providing research, counseling and
litigation services to defend the legal rights of our low-income minority
populations.
New York University School of Law, New York, New York, Class of 2001
For work at the Asian Law Caucus, providing research, counseling and
litigation services to defend the legal rights of our low-income minority
populations.
New York University School of Law, New York, New York, Class of 2001
For work at the Asian Law Caucus, providing research, counseling and
litigation services to defend the legal rights of our low-income minority
populations.
1999 Anheuser-Busch NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholars
Anheuser-Busch NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholarships
Ms. Mariju Bofill
American University Washington College of Law, Washington D.C., Class
of 2001
Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky, B.A. 1998
Mariju Bofill is a first-generation Filipino-American whose parents
emigrated to this country in 1969 and settled in southern West Virginia.
She was valedictorian of her class at Man High School in Man, West Virginia
and received her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Transylvania
University in Lexington, Kentucky, where she graduated magna cum laude.
While at Transylvania, she was honored as a 1996 Filipino-American Leader
of Tomorrow. She is now studying law at American University’s Washington
College of Law in Washington, D.C. where she is Vice-President of the
Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Vice-President and
Executive Board Member of the Criminal Law Society and Treasurer of
the National Lawyers Guild. This year, Mariju Bofill was a Summer Coordinator
for the Asian Pacific American Legal Research Center in Washington,
D.C.; in that capacity, she supervised and trained volunteer staffers
who assisted members of the Asian community in seeking and finding legal
services in the areas of immigration, landlord/tenant and domestic violence.
She is currently on the Executive Board of that organization. Ms. Bofill
has worked for Representative Nick Rahall, the U.S. Department of Justice
Civil Rights Division and is now a writing tutor at the Washington College
of Law’s Legal Methods Program.
Ms. Jihee Gillian Suh
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., Class of 2002
Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, B.A. 1997
Jihee Suh is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University where
she majored in Government. At Harvard, she received the John Harvard
College Scholarship and the Elizabeth Cary Agassiz award for academic
achievement of highest distinction and she was Director of the English
as Second Language tutoring program for Southeast Asian refugee children,
President of Amnesty International and on the Executive Board of the
Women’s Leadership Conference. At the same time, Ms. Suh worked for
three years with the SafetyNet Hate Violence Prevention Project where
she developed and conducted workshops about hate crimes and civil rights
for community agencies and public housing tenants and served as liaison
between victims of hate crimes and law enforcement officials. Upon graduating
from Harvard, Ms. Suh was selected to be a New York City Urban Fellow
and worked with the New York City Administration for Children's Services
where she became Special Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner of Child
Protection. She is now studying law at Georgetown University Law Center
and expects to graduate in 2002.
NAPABA Law Foundation Cathay Pacific Scholarship
Ms. Rose Cruz Cuison
American University Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C., Class
of 2000
University of Texas, Austin, Texas, B.A. 1996
Rose Cuison was born in the Philippines and grew up on the island of
Saipan, a U.S. commonwealth. She majored in Government at the University
of Texas in Austin, Texas and is now studying law at the American University
Washington College of Law. While at the University of Texas, Ms. Cuison
was a volunteer with an Americorps after school program for pregnant
teens and with Legal Aid of Central Texas. After graduating college,
Ms. Cuison returned to Saipan where she taught U.S. History, World History
and Civics and chaired the Social Studies Committee at the Mt. Carmel
High School. At American University Washington College of Law, she has
received the Valentin Fuentes Immigration Fellowship and the Equal Justice
Foundation Fellowship and she is the Chair of the Public Interest Committee
of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association. While in Washington,
Ms. Cuison has volunteered with the Filipino Civil Rights Association,
where she is a member of the Domestic Workers’ Committee, the Domestic
Violence Resource Project, the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource
Center and the Workers’ Rights Project of the Bread for the City and
Zacchaeus Free Clinic. Ms. Cuison has also been a Legislative Consultant
to the Senate of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands where
she drafted a bill creating college scholarships for poor minority students
and a Consultant on Education to the Representative of the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands in Washington, D.C.
NAPABA Law Foundation Scholarship
Ms. Elsie V. Hui
University of California at Davis School of Law, Davis, California,
Class of 2000
University of California at Berkeley, B.A. 1994
Elsie Hui is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley,
where she majored in English, was honored twice with the Alumni Association
Leadership Scholarship and with the Michael J. Koll Leadership Scholarship.
At Berkeley, she was Program Coordinator and a Teaching Assistant for
a lecture series, Other Voices: Multicultural Perspectives, which examined
issues of race and gender through literature and film. After college,
Ms. Hui worked for three years with the Asian Pacific American Legal
Center in Los Angeles where, as an Equal Access/Civil Rights Program
Coordinator, she performed community education and advocacy work in
the areas of affirmative action, immigrant worker rights, racial violence
and voting rights. She is the co-author of three reports on anti-Asian
hate violence and was a frequent speaker on that subject as well as
on Proposition 209. While in law school, Ms. Hui is Co-Chair of the
King Hall Legal Foundation, Treasurer of the National Lawyers Guild,
and a teaching assistant for first-year legal writing as well as an
undergraduate course on the Historical Experience of Asian Americans.
NAPABA Law Foundation Fellowship
Ms. Sonal S. Ambegaokar
University of California at Davis School of Law, class of 2000
University of Southern California, B.S. 1991
Sonal Ambegaokar is a 1991 summa cum laude graduate of the University
of Southern California where she majored in Business Administration.
During college, she volunteered to tutor inner city schoolchildren with
the Joint Education Project and was Co-Chair of the Youth Program for
Brihan Maharashtra Mandal. Upon graduation, Ms. Ambegaokar worked for
six years with GTE Corp. in Illinois, Georgia and California, and volunteered
at Apna Ghar, a shelter for battered South Asian women in Illinois.
She entered law school in 1997 where she has served as Treasurer of
the Law Student Association and as Co-Chair of the Martin Luther King
Jr. Service Award Committee, worked with the Asian Pacific Law Association,
Women’s Caucus, King Hall Legal Foundation and the Davis Refugee Aid
Project. Ms. Ambegaokar has been the recipient of a Foundation of the
State Bar of California Scholarship, a Women Lawyers of Sacramento Scholarship,
the Asian American Bar Association Summer Grant, and a King Hall Legal
Foundation Summer Grant. She has been awarded this fellowship to provide
legal services and advocacy for Asian immigrant women who may be victims
of domestic violence.
1998 Anheuser-Busch NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholarsors
$2500 Awards
1998 NAPABA Law Foundation Scholars
$1000 Awards
Wanchay Chanthadouangsy, DePaul University School of Law, 2000
Amy Cheung, U.C. Hastings College of Law, JD 1999
Milton Shundra Chou, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley, JD 2001
Betty "Jora Trang" Hai, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley, JD 2001
Lin Rose Walker, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, JD 2000
Josephine Yeh, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley, JD 2001
1998 NAPABA Law Foundation Essay Excerpts
John Hayakawa Torok,
Columbia University School of Law, JSD 2001
I began to develop a vision of law teaching as service to the Asian
American community in my first three jobs after the bar B as Professor
Derrick Bell's research assistant, as a community organizer against
racist and police violence, and as a research fellow in Asian American
legal history. Organizing the first student-directed Asian American
Jurisprudence class, held at Columbia Law School in Spring 1997, clarified
that vision. The class, now in its third year, is part of the Columbia
Asian Pacific American Law Student Association's (AAPALSA@) campaign
to (1) increase the number of Asian Americans on the faculty and (2)
add a class on Asian Americans and law.
As Professor Bell's research assistant, I helped update his classic
treatise, Race, Racism and American Law. It was required reading in
Professor Denise Carty-Bennia's Racism and Law Seminar at C.U.N.Y. I
was persuaded by Bell's argument that the law was central B through
slave codes, judicial decisions, and segregation laws B in African American
racial subordination. Working on the 1992 edition made clear to me that
racism in law still mattered.
As a community organizer fighting racist and police violence, I learned
about the places where the law's protection does not reach. Law enforcement
rarely took racist violence against Asian Americans seriously. Public
education and lobbying was usually required before the legal system
took notice. When police officers perpetrated the violence, the likelihood
of any legal remedy diminished significantly. Limited or non-existent
legal protection against racist violence represents a continuing challenge
for the ideal of equal justice under law.
As a fellow in Asian American legal history, I learned about the law's
role in Asian American racial subordination. Through reading the cases
and statutes on immigration and testimonial exclusion, naturalization
preclusion, alien land laws, Japanese American internment, and legal
historical materials, I learned that anti-Asian racism is woven into
the fabric of American law. To share my knowledge, I designed the curriculum
for the Asian American Jurisprudence class.
All indications are that the Columbia APALSA campaign has increased
faculty representation. We still hope the class will become a permanent
part of the curriculum. Simultaneously learning the law of Asian American
racial subordination and engaging the racial politics of curricular
and faculty diversity enhanced APALSA members' race consciousness. My
vision of law teaching as Asian American community service crystallized
because of the class.
The vision centers on building Asian American legal race consciousness
through teaching and scholarship. Asian Americans too often do not know
about either (1) the legal history of Arace@ in America and AAsians,@
or (2) other histories of subordination and resistance to subordination.
This creates challenges for unified Asian American political action.
If one defines politics as re-shaping relations of power, racial politics
may be defined as re-shaping racial power relations. Asian American
racial politics, to be effective, requires accurate knowledge of American
racial history. Advancing Asian American race consciousness has grounded
my community service to date. It is now also why I aspire to teach law.
Rebecca Yee
UCLA School of Law, JD 2001
"There is more in a human life than our theories of
it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular
path. You may remember this "something" as a signal moment in childhood
when an urge out of nowhere, a fascination, a peculiar turn of events
struck like an annunciation: This is what I must do, this is what I've
got to have. This is who I am." - James Hillman
As I contemplated your essay question regarding experiences that may
have shaped my commitment to serving the needs of Asian Pacific Americans,
I asked myself, "What was it anyway?" What particular event made me
feel so much passion for helping others, particularly in the APA community?
What circumstance created my enthusiasm to learn about social policies,
the legal system, and community development? What singular moment in
my life made me realize that public service is what I need to do in
order to feel whole?
And then it occurred to me . . . this need, almost compulsion, of mine
to help others was acquired and developed by my own personal struggles
-- as a child of newly-immigrated parents, unfamiliar with the language
and the culture of a new country; as a member of a family who has lived,
for a number of years, slightly above the poverty line in the ghettos
of inner-city Chinatown; as a minority female trying to survive and
succeed among racist and sexist ideologies and norms prevalent in our
country.
In my past and today, I have witnessed the struggles and cruelties
amongst and between ethnic communities. I have been inundated with the
realities of racial tension and violence. I have seen the lines of segregation
divided by municipal vices and corresponding socioeconomic barriers
that dictated the destinies of whole communities. There were very few
moments when my family, friends, or I were not plagued by racial hostilities
performed directly from individuals and groups, or indirectly from social
institutions. Although I grew accustomed to hateful words and actions,
these behaviors were drilled so deep into my consciousness that, even
today, I am still affected by such racism. These experiences made me
acknowledge at a very early age that my ethnicity would dictate how
I am perceived; a foreigner in my own country.
You may think that these experiences are not unique. In fact, I agree,
they are not. They are very comparable to many APAs with similar backgrounds
- now often evidenced in anthologies and films that share the APA experience.
However, it is how I reacted in these situations, and what I chose to
do with these reactions that are significant. By accepting my past and
committing to enrich my future, I managed to cross these lines of segregation
and step past my own confines. Although my experiences taught me the
harsh truths of economic perseverance and the nature of my fellow human
beings, they also prepared me well for the realities of life, and bestowed
upon me the inspiration to make change. Self-reflection enabled me to
comprehend the pains and fears of others. Moreover, the need to alleviate
this suffering through positive change became my motivation to help
those who are underprivileged and less-fortunate, or whose human rights
or civil liberties have been threatened. This emotional identification
shaped my compassion and my commitment to public service, and compelled
the ideology that it is just as integral and essential for us to serve
our communities as our communities function to serve us. I am a firm
believer of this philosophy and plan to devote not only my career, but
also my life, to the APA community.
One instrumental step in pursuing my goal was attending law school.
I chose to enter the legal profession because law is one of the best
ways to battle injustice. In fact, my sole purpose for pursuing a law
degree is to be able to learn everything about our legal system and
then use this knowledge as working tools to benefit the greater community.
My goal in becoming a civil rights/public interest attorney is to be
able to create social change on two levels: one within the APA community
on a grassroots level and the other within our government on a legislative
level. From a grassroots perspective, I plan to organize programs and
action groups to educate and empower community members. I also plan
to mobilize and build coalitions in order to develop a strong representative
voice for our community. This voice will accurately address the issues
the are significant in the APA community - throughout our media, educational
systems, business institutions, law-making bodies, etc. I hope to tear
down the economic classes and inter-ethnic stereotypes that divides
us as a group so that we may work together efficiently to combat inequities
that affect us all. From a governmental perspective, I plan to be active
in lobbying and advocating for laws and policies that affect the APA
community. Therefore, I plan to develop a cohesive and sufficient working
relationship with the government and the APA community, because I believe
in our country's basic premise that our government is "made of the people,
for the people". Therefore, a sound relationship needs to be constructed.
Effective social change cannot be created without strong leadership,
from both levels in the community and the government. Many have suggested
to me that my goals for the community are too ideal, but a great social
reformer named Mohandas K. Ghandi once said, "Most of what you do in
this world will be insignificant, but it is very important that you
do it anyway". I live by this quote and I always expect for the very
best.
1997 NAPABA LAW FOUNDATION SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS
1997 Anheuser-Busch NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholars
$2500 Awards
1997 NAPABA Law Foundation Scholars
$1000 Awards
James David Ahn, Harvard, 2000
Deana K. Chuang, UPenn, 1998
Rebecca N. Eichler, William & Mary, 1998
Elizabeth Miyong Kim, Yale University, 2000
Jinny Kim, UC Davis, 1999
Jason Kai Ming Lum, UC, Berkeley, Boalt Hall, 2000
Anthony S. Wang, Georgetown, 1998
1997 Presidential Scholars
The finalists of the 1997 Honorable Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition received scholarship awards at the 1997 NAPABA Convention.
Best Brief: $1000 Scholarship
Alyson Lewis, Hastings College of Law
Charles Lockwood, Hastings College of Law
Best Oralist: $1000 Scholarship
Tim Yusuf, South Texas College of Law
First Place Team: $2000 Scholarship
Loyola University Chicago
Kristin Corl and Grace Wee
Second Place Team: $1000 Scholarship
Georgia State University
Greg Ananthasane and Rupal Valishnav
The NAPABA Law Foundation is grateful to the Anheuser-Busch Companies for its exemplary commitment to the Foundation’s scholarship programs and for providing the funding for the scholarship awards to the 1996 class of NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholars and NAPABA Law Foundation Scholars.
1997 NAPABA Law Foundation Essay Excerpts
Grace An-Li Lou, Georgetown, JD 2000
As an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, I served as the president of the Asian American Advisory Board (AAAB), the Asian American student union that promotes awareness of Asian Pacific American social, political, and educational issues. In the spring of 1995, when the Northwestern student struggle to establish an Asian American Studies program culminated in a twenty-three day hunger strike, I organized and led rallies and marches, each of which drew more than two hundred student supporters. Two years later today, the Northwestern administration is following through the commitment to find Asian American Studies professors and has initiated a series of Asian American studies classes. Holding steadfast to my desire to represent people of all ethnicities, I am prepared for the challenges of the legal profession. After working a few years in the law field, I plan on starting a non-profit organization which will develop leadership skills in the Asian American youth. To me, the Asian Pacific American community is in need of leadership and unity that can lead us into the 21 century with the respect that all Americans deserve.
Victoria Wong, Boalt Hall, JD/MPP 1999
I participated in the Coro Fellows Program, a public policy leadership training program, where I had the chance to observe how nonprofit, private and public sector institutions impact public policy. Subsequently, I became the Public Policy Coordinator at Asian Americans for Equality, a community-based organization in New York's Chinatown. There, I advocated for housing and economic development policies to benefit Asian Americans, researching the impact of these policies, testifying before elected officials, and developing collaborative projects with local community and government leaders. I later became a Project Coordinator at the New York Immigration Coalition, managing a program to increase immigrant access to city services. After graduating, I would like to continue to work on civil rights and community advocacy issues, ideally through a combination of litigation and lobbying. Eventually, I would like to lead an organization that promotes the rights of Asian Americans and other communities of color, particularly in the areas of economic development, housing and education.
1996 Anheuser-Busch NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholars
$2500 Awards
Gregory Z. Chen, New York University Law School, 1997
Vida Gosrisirikul, University of Illinois College of Law, 1997
1996 NAPABA Law Foundation Scholars
$1000 Awards
John Hayakawa Torok, Columbia Law School, 2001
Robert E. Wone, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1999
Joane Si Ian Wong, University of Buffalo School of Law, 1999
Yu-Yee Wu, University of Virginia Law School, 1998
$500 Awards
Sandra T.M. Chong, University California, Davis School of Law, 1999
Nelson Mar, State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, 1998
Stella J. Ngai, Santa Clara University School of Law, 1997
Tuan Anh Pham, Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley Law School, 1997
Noel B. Vales, University of San Diego School of Law, 1997
Robert Yap, George Washington Law School, 1999
1996 Presidential Scholars
The finalists of the 1996 Honorable Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition received scholarship awards at the 1996 NAPABA Convention. The names of the Anheuser-Busch Scholars will be listed soon.
The NAPABA Law Foundation is grateful to the Anheuser-Busch Companies for its exemplary commitment to the Foundation’s scholarship programs and for providing the funding for the scholarship awards to the 1996 class of NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholars and NAPABA Law Foundation Scholars.
Please check back to this site for updates about the NAPABA Law Foundation Scholarship Programs.
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