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ANHEUSER-BUSCH NAPABA PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS Each year, two Presidential Anheuser-Busch Scholarships are awarded to law students who demonstrate particularly outstanding leadership potential to serve the Asian Pacific American community, as selected from all of the scholarship applicants by the Foundation in consultation with the President of NAPABA. National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA), Washington, D.C. The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association has been instrumental in combating hate crimes and anti-immigrant backlash, lobbying for civil rights reform and advocating diversity in the federal and state court systems. It represents 40,000 attorneys, judges, law professors and law students. The NAPABA Law Foundation The NAPABA Law Foundation is a non-profit, charitable and educational affiliate of NAPABA, tax exempt under IRC Section 501(c)(3). The Foundation provides financial assistance to Asian Pacific American law students who have demonstrated academic excellence and social leadership, and supports the development of internships and fellowships for public and community service relating to Asian Pacific Americans. The Foundation also sponsors the annual Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition which gives law students an opportunity to enhance and demonstrate their appellate advocacy skills on legal issues of particular relevance to the Asian Pacific American community. 2002 Juliet K. Choi, University of Maryland School of Law 2003 Choi spent seven years in corporate broadcasting before pursuing her legal education and embarking on a career in advocacy for at-risk children. Among other activities, she has worked with the National Mental Health Association, the Federal Center for Mental Health Services, the child mental health division of Contra Costa County, California, and with Montgomery County, Maryland and the State of Delaware. She worked as a summer clerk with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the National Asian Pacific American Consortium and is a former president of her school's APALSA. 2002 Christopher Punongbayan, University of California Los Angeles School of Law, Class of 2004 A graduate of Brown University, Rhode Island in1998, Punonbayan has since been active in numerous community organizing and legal organizations. Since moving to Los Angeles in 2001, he has performed immigration related work with the San Fernando Valley Neighborhood Legal Services, where he assisted undocumented battered immigrant women apply for relief under VAWA, and the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, where he provided legal advocacy for INS detainees. He currently is a member and supporter of three grassroots organizations: Filipino Civil Rights Advocates; the Southeast Asian Freedom Network and Q-TEAM, a queer youth of color social justice organization. In the summer of 2003, Punonbayan will intern with the Pilipino Workers Center where he will be handling employment claims of low-wage Pilipino workers. 2001 Angela Okamura, McGeorge School of Law, Class of 2004 A 1998 graduate of University of California, Davis, 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. Among her numerous other activities, Okamura 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. 2001 Erin Oshiro, UCLA School of Law, 2004 Oshiro is a 1999 graduate of UCLA. Prior to attending law school, she was a Judicial Administration Fellow with Cal State Sacramento. 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 2000 DIANA MAY LIN, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY LAW CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C., CLASS OF 2003 As a student at Pomona College, Lin worked to establish an Asian American Student Resource Center and convinced the school to hire its first full-time Asian American Studies professor. She continued her advocacy on issues affecting Asian Pacific Americans: as an intern at Asian Americans for Equality; as a Legislative Correspondent for U.S. Senator Carol Moseley-Braun; and at the Ford Foundation where she was a program associate for immigrant rights and racial justice issues. She has a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University and is currently a Public Interest Law Scholar at Georgetown University. After earning her law degree, Lin will join the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights as a 2003-05 Equal Justice Works Fellow. 2000 Michelle Tong, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, Sacramento, California, 2001 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, Tong has been a member and leader of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, the Unity Board and the Black Law Students Association. 1999 Ms. Mariju Bofill, American University Washington College of Law, Washington D.C., 2001 Bofill is a first-generation Filipino-American whose parents emigrated to this country in 1969 and settled in southern West Virginia. She 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. Bofill was a Summer Coordinator for the Asian Pacific American Legal Research Center in Washington, D.C. Ms. Bofill has worked for Representative Nick Rahall, the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and was a writing tutor at the Washington College of Law’s Legal Methods Program. 1999 Jihee Gillian Suh, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC,2002 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. Upon graduating from Harvard, 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. 1998 John Hayakawa Torok, Columbia University School of Law, 2001 Torok is a candidate for Doctorate of the Science of Law at Columbia University’s Law School. He is a board member of the Asian Pacific Islander Coaltion on HIV/AIDS and is frequently a panel speaker on issues involving legal matters concerning the Asian-American community. John has won numerous awards and fellowships over the years, but he has never underestimated what the NAPABA scholarship has done for him: "The financial support for my graduate legal studies in American legal history, and the recognition of my work as part of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association campaign for Asian American legal curriculum and Asian American law faculty hiring were most helpful and gratifying." 1998 REBECCA YEE, UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW, 2001 Yee has a long history of social justice work with marginalized communities of color. During her undergraduate years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she was active with several student-led movements, including the fight for Asian American Studies. Yee also served as the President of the Asian American Association. While at UCLA School of Law, Yee was the co-chair of the Asian Pacific Islander Law Students Association. As a law student, Yee was awarded multiple scholarships to work at various public interest organizations, such as Public Advocates, California Women's Law Center, Asian Pacific American Legal Center and Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. Rebecca is currently an attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County and continues to be very active in the community. 1997 GRACE AN-LI LOU, Georgetown University School of Law, 2000 As an undergraduate student at Northwestern University, Lou 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. Lou prepared for the challenges of the legal profession. After working a few years in the law field, Lou plans on starting a non-profit organization which will develop leadership skills in the Asian American youth. To Lou, 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. 1997 VICTORIA WONG, Boalt Hall, 1999 Wong participated in the Coro Fellows Program, a public policy leadership training program, where Wong had the chance to observe how nonprofit, private and public sector institutions impact public policy. Subsequently, Wong became the Public Policy Coordinator at Asian Americans for Equality, a community-based organization in New York's Chinatown. There, he advocated for housing and economic development policies to benefit Asian Americans. After graduation Wong continues to work on civil rights and community advocacy issues, ideally through a combination of litigation and lobbying. Eventually, Wong 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 Gregory Chen, New York University Law School, 1997 Chen is a staff attorney with Legal Services for Children (LSC), a non-profit law firm that provides free legal representation for minors in several areas of law, including juvenile dependency, legal guardianship, school discipline, and immigration. Chen is also LSC’s lead attorney for the San Francisco Detained Immigrant Children project which represents children detained by the INS in immigration proceedings. A graduate from Harvard University and New York University School of Law, Chen clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the Ninth Circuit federal court of appeals. He is the author of "Youth Curfews: The Trilogy of Parent, Child and State Relations," published in the New York University Law Review and "Elian or Alien: The Contradictions of Protecting Undocumented Children under the Special Immigrant Juvenile Statute," in the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly. 1996 Vida Gosrisirikul, University of Illinois College of Law, 1997 Gosrisirikul is a shareholder of the law firm Mondero Rim D’Souza & Gosrisirikul, Ltd. She concentrates her practice in the areas of real estate, corporate and immigration. Before forming the firm, she served on the staff of Hon. Donald P. O’Connell, Chief Judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County. Gosrisirikul served as the 2000-2002 National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Regional Governor and also served as immediate past president of the Asian American Bar Association of the Greater Chicago Area. Gosrisirikul continues to support students on campus and recently returned to the University in March 2003 to serve as keynote speaker for the Unseen Unheard activism conference. The Honorable Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition Winners Organized by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) Law Foundation and funded by Anheuser-Busch, Inc., the competition is in tribute to the late Judge Thomas Tang, a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. A champion of individual rights and an advocate for the advancement of minorities in the legal profession, Judge Tang was the first Asian American appointed as a federal judge and was the highest-ranking Asian American in the federal judiciary during his 18 years of service on the 9th Circuit. 2002 Competition Finalists First Place Team - $2000 Scholarship Bradley Harper and Steve Klein, University of Florida Levin College of Law Second Place Team: $1000 Scholarship Tabitha Hasin and Andrea Curl, Chapman University School of Law Best Oralist - $1000 Scholarship Andrea Curl, Chapman University School of Law Best Brief - $500 Scholarship Bradley Harper and Steve Klein, University of Florida Levin College of Law 2001 Competition Finalists First Place Team - $2000 Scholarship Susan Danial and Zarin Khan, Loyola University, Chicago School of Law Second Place - $1000 Scholarship Jenny Hsieh and Jack Chen, University of California, Hastings College of Law Best Oralist - $1000 Scholarship Jack Chen, University of California, Hastings College of Law Best Brief - $500 Scholarships, a tie between Jonathan Yeh and Anh Nguyen, Seattle University School of Law Jenny Hsieh and Jack Chen, University of California, Hastings College of Law 2000 Competition Finalists First Place Team - $2000 Scholarship Ali Ozawa and Emmy Wang, Loyola University, Chicago Second Place Team - $1000 Scholarship Jennifer Piel and Greg Blankenship, University of Washington School of Law Best Oralist - $1000 Scholarship Jennifer Piel, University of Washington School of Law Best Brief - $500 Scholarship Ali Ozawa and Emmy Wang, Loyola University, Chicago 1999 Competition Finalists First Place Team - $2000 Scholarship Ester Hong and Stacy Bardo, Loyola University, Chicago Second Place Team - $1000 Scholarship Amy Perez and Raimundo Araujo, University of Florida Best Oralist - $1000 Scholarship Stacy Bardo, Loyola University, Chicago Best Brief - $500 Scholarship Ester Hong and Stacy Bardo, Loyola University, Chicago 1998 Competition Finalists First Place Team- $2000 Scholarship Sandra Chong and Rochelle Hao, University of California, Davis Second Place Team - $1000 Scholarship Theodore Angelis and Ahilan Arulanantham, Yale Law School Best Oralist - $1000 Scholarship Theodore Angelis, Yale Law School Best Brief - $500 Scholarship Stacy Kubert and J. Aaron Jensen, Loyola University, Chicago 1997 Competition Finalists First Place Team - $2000 Scholarship Kristin Corl and Grace Wee, Loyola University, Chicago School of Law Second Place Team - $1000 Scholarship Greg Ananthasane and Rupal Valishnav, Georgia State University 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 1996 Competition Finalists First Place Team - $2000 Scholarship Rena Abbasi and Shehnaz Mansuri, Loyola University, Chicago Second Place Team -$1000 Scholarship Tony Cheng and My Hyunh, University of California School of Law, Davis Best Oralist - $1000 Scholarships, a tie between Rena Abbasi, Loyola University, Chicago Tim Yosef, South Texas College of Law Best Brief- $500 Scholarship Tony Cheng and My Hyunh, University of California School of Law, Davis 1995 Competition Finalists First Place Team - $2000 Scholarship Aditi Dravid, Bonni Richardson and Kirti Vaidya, University of Oklahoma College of Law Second Place Team - $1000 Scholarship Iris Ferosie and Iraj Namini, John Marshall Law School Best Oralist - $1000 Scholarship Nancy Duhon, Emory University School of Law Best Brief - $500 Scholarship Aditi Dravid, Bonni Richardson and Kirti Vaidya, University of Oklahoma College of Law |
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