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At the annual dinner of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, held in Dallas, Texas on November 13, 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. NAPABA Law Partners Community Law Fellowship Created We are especially enthused about the creation of the NAPABA Law Partners Community Law Fellowship, funded by a generous two-year gift from former NAPABA President Paul Lee, a partner at Goodwin Procter in Boston. This grant is being used to fund a full fellowship at the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium for the next two years and the Foundation is challenging others to follow Paul’s lead to expand and continue the funding for this program. The first NAPABA Law Partners Community Law Fellowship has been awarded to Juliet K. Choi. Ms. Choi will join the staff of NAPALC to work on language rights/access projects focused on three primary areas: access to justice and legal services; ensuring services to limited English proficient individuals, with an emphasis on access to healthcare; and advocating against federal, state, and local English-only initiatives. NAPABA Law Foundation Scholarships Awarded Two Anheuser-Busch Presidential Scholarships of $5,000 each were awarded to Mr. Jah-Juin Ho of Brooklyn Law School and Ms. Julianna O. Lee of University of Michigan Law School. The Chris Nakamura Scholarship, awarded in memory of a champion for civil rights and equality in Arizona, in the amount of $2,500, was awarded to Ms. Elizabeth Luk of Pace Law School. A $2,500 Scholarship was awarded to Ms. Junlin Ho and Scholarships of $2,000 were awarded to Mr. Andy Le of Rutgers University School of Law, Mr. Brian On Loy Lee of Chicago-Kent College of Law, Mr. Sundeep Patel of American University Washington College of Law and Mr. Brandon Yu of University of California Hastings College of the Law. Ms. Alberta Lee of University of California Davis School of Law, Ms. Shaffy Moeel of University of California Los Angeles School of Law and Ms. Debra Sudo of American University Washington College of Law each received a $4,000 Judge Robert M. Takasugi Fellowship which was established in honor of Judge Takasugi’s history of leadership and commitment in the Asian Pacific American legal community in California. Lim, Ruger & Kim Scholarship Created This year, the Foundation established its Lim, Ruger & Kim Scholarship through the generosity of the law firm of Lim, Ruger & Kim in Los Angeles. The first recipient of this $2500 scholarship is Ms. Tian Tian Mayimin of Harvard Law School. NAPABA Law Partners Community Law Fellowship - $45,000 The first NAPABA Law Partners Community Law Fellowship has been awarded to Juliet K. Choi. Ms. Choi will join the staff of NAPALC to work on language rights/access projects focused on three primary areas: access to justice and legal services; ensuring services to limited English proficient individuals, with an emphasis on access to healthcare; and advocating against federal, state, and local English-only initiatives. A certified mediator, Ms. Choi previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Dennis M. Sweeney of the Circuit Court for Howard County, Maryland. She received her law school’s Alumni Association Award as the graduating student deemed by the faculty to have contributed most largely to the law school through her qualities of character and leadership. Additionally, in 2002, she was first recognized as an Asian Pacific American Bar Association Educational Fund Fellow for her work with the Disability Rights Section of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and then as an Anheuser-Busch NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholar. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law and received her B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia. Prior to embarking upon her legal career, Ms. Choi’s professional experience includes working with the corporate division of Gannett Broadcasting in the areas of financial and market research analysis and subsequently serving as a policy director with the National Mental Health Association. Her volunteer work has included serving on a wide array of boards and committees for such groups as Georgetown Medical Center’s National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health; Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute; City of Alexandria, Virginia; Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Maryland; and Maryland Pro Bono Resource Center. Anheuser-Busch NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholarships - $5,000 Mr. Jah-Juin Ho Mr. Ho’s legal career started early in his college career when he was hired as a research intern to the Honorable Chief Justice Christine Durham of the Utah Supreme Court on the recommendation of his professor. His journey through the judicial system continued through college with successive internships with the Capital Crimes and Communications Department, for Judge Andrew Valdez, and with Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Legal System. Upon graduation from college (after three years), Jah-Juin worked as an accountant in the court system until he was asked to become Project Director of the Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Legal System upon the resignation of its prior director. He has also served as the Legal Committee Chair for the Asian Leadership Forum and the Community Service Co-Chair of the Asian Association of Utah Youth Task Force, and has been active in the Asian American Student Association of the University of Utah and the Asian Festival Planning Committee, among a host of other civic and extracurricular activities. Ms. Julianna O. Lee Julianna Lee has a long history of campus activism in college, community development work in Boston’s Chinatown and Asian Pacific American advocacy in Washington D.C. Starting in college as an intern with the Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts, Ms. Lee has tutored English as a second language, was a counselor for the Chinatown Adventure and Chinatown Afterschool programs and founded the Chinatown College Workshop Program, all in Boston. She also served as a mentor in the Korean American Alliance and co-founded the D.C. APA Film Festival in Washington, D.C. Julianna was an APAICS Daniel K. Inouye Fellow in the Asian Pacific American Studies Program at the Smithsonian Institution in 1999, worked in the Battered Immigrant Women’s Project of the Greater Boston Legal Services in 2001, was a keynote speaker for Voices of Civil Rights in August of this year, interned with NAPALC’s Anti-Asian Violence Division this past summer and planned a conference for the Global Feminisms Project at the University of Michigan. She is also coauthor of Asian Americans under the Rehnquist Court: A Protracted and Ongoing Struggle for Justice and Recognition, published in Awakening From the Dream. NAPABA Law Foundation Chris Nakamura Scholarship - $2,500 Ms. Elizabeth Luk While in college, Ms. Luk was a Student Justice on the University Conduct Council, Secretary of the Chinese Students Association and a Representative-at-Large for the Students in Alliance for Asian American Concerns. During college, she interned with the Office of Equal Opportunity in Atlanta and with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Before continuing her education in law school, she worked with the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center in New York (formerly known as the Chinatown Health Clinic) as Coordinator of Women’s Health and then as Coordinator of Community Health Projects. In law school, Elizabeth is on the Pace International Law Review, President of the Health Law Society and President of the Asian American Law Student Association, and has served internships with the Westchester Human Rights Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice on issues of concern to the Asian Pacific American community. Lim, Ruger & Kim NAPABA Law Foundation Scholarship - $2,500 Ms. Tian Tian Mayimin Ms. Mayimin worked for many years with Operation Smile, an organization that raises funds for reconstructive surgery for children in developing countries as a youth representative to the Nicaraguan medical mission, Co-President of her high school division, and Secretary of the Harvard University Division. She was Co-President of the Asian American Alliance in high school and, while in college, taught English as a Second Language, worked with the Small Claims Advisory Service providing information to low-income residents, and interned in the Housing Division of Greater Boston Legal Services. Tian Tian is a workshop leader for the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, for which she planned the largest student conference in Asia, developed models for understanding Asian education and is planning a four-day workshop on Trust in Asia for Summer 2005. NAPABA Law Foundation Scholarships $2,500
Ms. Junlin Ho Ms. Ho was Social Chair of the Chinese Students Club and President of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Students Association at M.I.T. where she was also captain of the equestrian team. After graduating, she went to work for GIC Real Estate, a real estate investment adviser, where she was promoted to Assistant Vice President. At the same time, she volunteered at a kitchen for the homeless, Habitat for Humanity, and as a tutor at a transitional family housing center. Before entering law school, Junlin left her position with GIC to take a six month internship with Affirmative Investments, Inc., a company that develops and manages affordable housing and commercial developments in low income opportunities. She led the team responsible for planning and zoning for a 90-unit affordable assisted living facility in Pittsburgh, a 60 unit mixed used elder/commercial project in Las Vegas, and a commercial development in Boston. $2,000 Mr. Andy Le Mr. Le is President of the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association at Rutgers University where he has organized the Northeast Regional of the Thomas Tang National Moot Court Competition for the last two years and is a Teaching Assistant in Criminal Law. He has interned with the Asian Law Alliance in San Jose, California, is a counselor at the Asian American Legal Clinic in Jersey City, New Jersey, and has volunteered with New York Cares and the Asian Law Caucus Immigration Clinic in San Francisco. Mr. Brian On Loy Lee While in college, Mr. Lee was a Child Advocate with the Child Abuse Services Team. At Asian Human Services, he assists in the provision of legal services to low-income individuals. He also volunteers with the Chinese Bar Association, assisting them with their semi-annual law forum where free legal advice is provided to the local APA community. Mr. Sundeep Patel At Washington College of Law, Mr. Sundeep Patel is Student Liaison for the South Asian Law Student Association and a student member of the South Asian Bar Association. He has also volunteered at the Asian Self Help Association where he assisted local Asian and South Asian women who are victims of domestic violence. Mr. Brandon Yu Prior to entering law school, Mr. Yu was a Program Officer for the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development where he was policy researcher and editor-in-chief of the Northeast Asia Peace and Security Network Daily Report. While in college, he was one of twelve student representatives advising Mayor Shirley Dean of Berkeley on municipal policy issues and university relations. He is also and active member of the Asian American underground music scene and independent artist community. Judge Robert M. Takasugi Fellowship for Public Interest Law - $4,000 The NAPABA Law Foundation supports a public interest summer 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. Alberta Lee, a third-year law student at U.C. Davis, worked with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights providing representation to indigent refugees seeking asylum, providing victims of human trafficking social and legal services, and participating on legal teams fighting for remedies for human trafficking victims’ remedies for the civil rights workplace violations and helping to litigate national immigration policies. Alberta, the daughter of Dr. Wen Ho Lee, the Taiwanese-American scientist wrongfully accused of espionage at Los Alamos National Laboratories in New Mexico, has spoken across the country about her father's case, sharing her feelings about race, her father and family’s ordeal, and racial profiling. Shaffy Moeel is a third-year law student at UCLA. Shaffy spent her summer at the Equal Justice Society (“EJS”) in San Francisco, where she assisted in organizing individuals and coalition building of various communities to develop innovative legal theories and strategies to eliminate the conservative bias of our legal system, investigated issues related to EJS’ impact litigation efforts helping to ensure fairness and democracy, and made presentations on current legal issues. Debra Sudo, a third-year law student at American University in Washington D.C., interned this summer at the Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law in Los Angeles. There, Debra represented low-income families, providing families with access to the courts, helping to reduce poverty among children and single parents, and combating domestic violence directed toward women and children.
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