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Visit the charity's profileIdentifying as LGBTQ+ should never be a barrier to practicing law. Through education efforts, policy development, and other activities, the Commission seeks to secure equal treatment in the legal profession and the justice system.
ABA Giving Day 2022 · 29 September 2022 to 31 December 2022 ·
Closed 14/11/2022
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Visit the charity's profileAll proceeds support, SOGIs new and annual programs focused on training and education, research, as well as advocacy, and policy work.
> The ABA LGBT Public Interest Scholarship helps law students to pursue the promotion of civil and human rights of LGBTQ persons and help secure full and equal treatment in the legal profession and justice system.
Meet the Recipients of the 2022 ABA LGBT Scholarship Recipients
Chanel Chawalit
Chanel Chawalit is a rising 2L student at the University of California Davis School of Law with a passion for public interest work, immigration, and criminal law. As a queer Asian American, Chanel is deeply invested in expanding justice to marginalized queer and Asian communities. Chanel is currently a summer legal intern at Oasis Legal services, a non-profit that provides asylum and immigration services to LGBTQ+ immigrants. She plans to continue her work with the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association and engaging even more in public interest law in the upcoming year.
Clementine Stormes
Clementine Stormes is a rising 3L at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law, where she is training to become a public interest attorney. She is also Managing Articles Editor of the CUNY Law Review, one of the nations leading public interest law publications. For Summer 2022, Clementine is interning with the Chosen Family Law Center, a nonprofit that provides LGBTQIA+ and non-nuclear families. With a strong passion for justice, Clementine is dedicated to using her legal training to fight for trans liberation and workers' rights.
With the support of the ABA SOGI Public Interest Scholarship, I spent three months interning with the Chosen Family Law Center, where I helped members of the LGBTQIA+ community to access the legal resources they need to protect their families and individual autonomy...It was so rewarding to connect with other queer and trans folks in need and to be able to provide them with a resource that could give them security in an increasingly hostile world. - Clementine Stormes
Harry Chiu
Harry Chiu (he/him) is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School from Vancouver, Canada. At Harvard, Harry was an active member of Lambda, the LGBTQ+ affinity group, where he mentored numerous students to pursue public interest careers.
The ABA SOGI Public Interest Scholarship has been instrumental in helping me fund the cost of moving to Atlanta and pursuing my work advocating for education justice on behalf of marginalized Black and Brown students in the Deep South. In the four short weeks I have been on the job, I have attended a hearing in a lawsuit opposing a new school voucher program in Tennessee, met with Georgia state legislators to express the urgent need to bolster public school funding...This scholarship has allowed me to do this incredibly important work without increasing my student debt, cementing the future viability of my career as a public interest attorney. - Harry Chiu
> LGBTQ+ Webinars featuring Combatting LGBT Implicit Bias in the Legal Profession, Title VII US Supreme Court Decision, Sexual Orientation: The Legal Case for Coverage Under Title VII and more.
> Ally Toolkit provides everything needed to host programs and discussions on being an Ally to LGBTQIA+ persons.
> The annual Stonewall Awards recognize contributions by the Award recipients to the advancement of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals in the legal profession, and/or to LGBT legal issues.
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