Anheuser-Busch Fellows, Scholars and Interns

NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN LEGAL CONSORTIUM (NAPALC) – WASHINGTON, DC

The National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium (NAPALC) works to advance the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans through litigation, public education and public policy. A nationally recognized voice on behalf of Asian Pacific Americans, NAPALC focuses its expertise on anti-Asian violence prevention and education, voting rights, immigration, naturalization, affirmative action, language rights and the census.


1998 A-B NAPALC LEGAL FELLOW - GUATAM RANA
Rana earned a J.D. from Vanderbilt University’s School of Law in 1997 and BA degrees in international relations and economics from the University of Pennsylvania and is now a staff attorney in the Criminal Appeals Bureau of the Legal Aid Society in New York.

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Looking back on the fellowship, Rana said, "It was a wonderful experience to work with such impressive colleagues focused on improving the civil rights of all Asian Pacific Americans."
"I learned a great deal from Karen Narasaki, the executive director of the Consortium, and Jayne Park, who was a staff attorney at NAPALC while I was a fellow," says Rana. "Their consummate professionalism and dedication was an important example to me as the fellowship was my first job after graduating from law school."


1997 A-B NAPALC LEGAL FELLOW - JACINTA MA
Jacinta Ma is a Legal and Policy Advocacy Associate at The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and works primarily on issues regarding desegregation and diversity in K-12 education.

Previously, she was an Assistant Attorney General at the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office in the Civil Rights Division where she enforced civil rights laws prohibiting housing discrimination and bias-motivated threats or intimidation. Ma was also Special Assistant to the Executive Director of President Clinton’s Initiative on Race focusing on issues of education and civil rights. She received her J.D. from New York University and her BA from the University of California at Berkeley.

During the year of her Anheuser-Busch fellowship, she worked on issues related to anti-Asian violence, affirmative action, and the census.

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"The Anheuser-Busch fellowship was important to me because it was my first job in the area of civil rights," says Ma. "It provided me the opportunity to learn about civil rights issues, assist the Asian Pacific American community, work with inspiring civil rights leaders, and develop new skills as an attorney."


1996 A-B NAPALC LEGAL FELLOW - GWENDOLYN YIP
Gwendolyn Yip is currently a visiting fellow at the Law Department of the London School Of Economics, and is raising a young child. She received a B.S. in 1986 and an M.S. in 1988 from McGill University, and a J.D. in 1991 from Boston University.

Gwendolyn was an associate at the intellectual property firm of Weingarten, Schurgin, Gagnebin & Hayes, LLP, in Boston from 1997 to 2001. She has been active in the ABA and NAPABA and local NAPABA chapter (Asian American Lawyers of Massachusetts), as well as her local church.

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"The fellowship enabled me to learn about civil rights / legal issues affecting Asian Pacific Americans, in depth, and to meet many dynamic APA leaders working for improve their local communities. These contacts have helped me in my own efforts to make a difference, and allowed me to help others to network effectively, so that the wheel need not be reinvented for each new / growing APA community."

1995 A-B NAPALC LEGAL FELLOW - SASWATI PAUL
In the nine years since Saswati Paul’s Anheuser-Busch fellowship, it remains "one of the most wonderful opportunities" of her life.

Saswati was the first Anheuser-Busch NAPALC fellow in 1993. Fresh out of law school, she co-authored and edited the first audit on anti-Asian violence published by the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium in Washington D.C..

She then took a leadership position at the U.S. Department of Labor, rising to senior investigator enforcing the rights of pension and welfare participants and beneficiaries. After seven years with the agency, she joined the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie and specializes in employee benefits and stock compensation. Away from work she maintains interests in traveling, gourmet cooking and classical Indian dance.

The Anheuser Busch fellowship was a key turning point in Paul’s life. "My fellowship convinced me of the importance of a career in public interest and to be involved with issues affecting Asian Americans," she says.

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