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Anheuser-Busch NAPABA Law Foundation Presidential Scholarships - $7,500

Mr. Alexander Saingchin
Rutgers School of Law, Newark, New Jersey, Class of 2006
State University of New York at Albany, B.S., Business Administration, 2000

Mr. Saingchin deferred admission to Rutgers School of Law for one year so that, as a Program Associate for the Asian American Federation of New York, he could help New York City’s APA community recover after September 11. He quickly proved himself to be a critical member of AAFNY’s post-9/11 recovery assistance efforts, co-designing and launching a $1.15 million program with 6 partner agencies. This is just one in a long list of accomplishments including being President of the Asian American Alliance at SUNY-Albany, Founder and President of the Asian Pacific Leadership Association, a service organization to cultivate and develop leadership skills of APA college students, and co-founder and Director of the Asian American Legal Project of the United Community Development Corporation, a project to establish multi-lingual legal clinics serving APAs in Northern New Jersey. Mr. Saingchin is also Vice President of the Rutgers APALSA and has worked with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund’s Election Protection Project.

Mr. George Wu
George Washington University Law School, Washington, D.C., Class of 2006
Johns Hopkins University, B.A., English, 2001

While in college, Mr. Wu was President of the Taiwanese American Students Association and Vice-Chair of the Inter-Asian Council. Upon graduation, he worked with the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center in Washington, D.C. where he worked on hotline development, fundraising and supervision of law student volunteers. He has continued to work with APALRC while in law school, as a volunteer, then as a member of its Board of Directors and as Coordinator of its Language Access Project. He has also worked with the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans, is a Director and Co-Chair of the National Advisory Committee of Equal Justice Works, which funds over 100 legal fellowships, and clerked with the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium. At law school, he is, among other things, President of APALSA, a Founding Member of the Minority Law Coalition and Vice President of the Equal Justice Foundation.

Mercedes-Benz NAPABA Law Foundation Scholarships - $5,000

Ms. Bethany Li
Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., Class of 2008
Amherst College, B.A., History, 2003

While in college, Ms. Li co-founded and served as National Chairperson of the National Asian American Student Conference, coordinating nationwide protests against racist Abercrombie & Fitch t-shirts, fought racial stereotyping, and advocated for additional funding to colleges with significant low income APA populations. She was a poll site coordinator for the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, a student representative to the Five College Asian Pacific American Studies Committee in Amherst, Massachusetts and Publicity Chair for the Amherst Asian Students Association.

Ms. Evonne Lai
University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, Class of 2008
University of California at Berkeley, B.A., Ethnic Studies, 2005

Before entering law school this fall, Ms. Lai interned with the Asian Pacific American Student Development Office at Berkeley, where she organized and facilitated programs for the Annual API Issues Conference, and at the US EEOC where she assisted Commissioner Stuart Ishimara and also actively participated in Organization of Chinese Americans programs. She was a Co-Chair of the Asian Pacific Council, a Student Representative to the Ethnic Studies Oversight Committee and a member of the Third World Liberation Front and Cal Queer & Asian.

Ms. Navneet Grewal
New York University School of Law, Class of 2007
University of California at San Diego, B.A., Political Science, 2003

Ms. Grewal is committed to serving the needs of APAs. While at UC San Diego, she planned the first annual University of California Women of Color Conference and worked strenuously to help defeat California’s Proposition 54, a referendum that sought to bar any state-funded entity from collecting any diversity data, including as No on 54 Coordinator for the Asian Pacific American Legal Center. She has continued her activism in law school where she is the Chair of the National Lawyers Guild and Admissions Chair of the South Asian Law Students Association. She has interned at South Brooklyn Legal Services and is working at NYU’s Immigrant Rights Clinic.

NAPABA Law Foundation Chris Nakamura Scholarship - $2,500

Ms. Alice Kim Simmons
University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City, Iowa, Class of 2006
University of Wisconsin, Madison, M.A., International Relations, 1985
University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, B.A., International Affairs, 1984

Before entering law school, Ms. Simmons had a distinguished career with the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce where she rose to become the Chief of Staff for International Operations. During her tenure, she created multilateral trade promotion initiatives for APEC and ASEAN, established public-private trade promotion centers in Hanoi, Jakarta, Johannesburg and Shanghai and received numerous awards for her efforts and achievements. With the Washington Coalition for Comfort Women, she helped secure an apology from Japan for World War II military sex slaves. In law school, Ms. Simmons continues to blaze trails, establishing her own course of study which will serve her well in her goal of returning to government service and establishing bilateral legal development programs that will extend legal protections to Asian Pacific Americans.

Lim, Ruger & Kim NAPABA Law Foundation Scholarship - $2,500

Ms. Elsa Cruz Pearson
New York University School of Law, Class of 2006
City College of New York, M.A., TESOL, 2002
Stanford University, B.A., Urban Studies, 2000

Ms. Pearson has worked for many years with CAAAV, the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, and its Women Workers Project, organizing domestic workers to fight for their rights. She has carried her passion for immigrant workers into law school where she represents them at NYU’s Immigrant Rights Clinic, and where she has interned with The Door’s Legal Services Center and The Bronx Defenders’ Family Defense Project and Bronx PRYDE. She taught in the New York City public school system for two years, is Staff Editor of NYU’s Review of Law and Social Change and is Chair of the Jailhouse Lawyering Project of the NYU chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.

NAPABA Law Foundation Scholarships - $2,000

Ms. Joanna K. Chan
University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Class of 2008
University of California at Berkeley, B.A., Sociology, 2002

International Chinese Affairs - Vice President, International Operations
International Center for Human Services – Founder
Family Violence Law Center – Board of Directors

Ms. Kathy Jung
Columbia Law School, Class of 2006
Wellesley College, B.A., Political Science, 2001

The Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under Law – Intern for Employment Discrimination Project
Office of Internal Oversight Services, United Nations – Legal Intern
Legal Aid Society, Civil Division – Legal Intern
Wellesley College Student Government – Senator

Ms. Holly Lung
University of Maryland School of Law, Class of 2006
Wellesley College, B.A., Political Science, 1995

APALSA – Executive Board
Economic Housing and Community Development Clinic – Student Attorney
NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development – Housing Litigation Intern
Chinese-American Planning Council, New York – Team Leader, 9/11 Case Management Program
The CityKids Foundation - Mentor
New York Asian Women’s Center – Counselor
Primedia/About, Inc. – Director of Communications and Marketing