King Hall Record: Three Equal Justice Works Fellowships!
Monica Ashiku '08, Kristin Link '08, and Cassandra Lopez '08 were awarded prestigious 2008 Equal Justice Works Fellowships. The Equal Justice Works (EJW) Fellowships Program provides two-year fellowships for law graduates to work at nonprofit organizations and implement projects that address the legal needs of disenfranchised individuals and groups. This is the first time three UC Davis Law students were selected for the prestigious fellowship.
Ashiku will work with the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project in Harlingen, Texas. She will assist individuals detained at Willacy County Processing Center, the largest immigration detention center in the U.S. Link will provide preventative services to low-income residents and youth, primarily Latino immigrants, in Yolo County. Her project aims to achieve this goal through stabilizing the family unit. Lopez will work with Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland. She will work to reunite and stabilize families torn apart by Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention.
Dean Rex Perschbacher expressed his deep pride in these King Hall students for representing the best of the aspirations of the rule of law and search for justice that make a career in law so worthwhile.