LOS ANGELES – MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) is pleased to announce the recipients in its 2018-19 Law School Scholarship Program.
Since MALDEF’s founding, the civil rights organization has awarded scholarships to law students who plan to advance MALDEF’s mission of promoting and protecting the civil rights of the Latino community in the United States.
“With the most anti-Latino presidential administration in U.S. history daily embedding threats to Latino civil rights in federal policy and practice, we know that we will need many dedicated lawyers committed to serving the Latino community in the future,” said Thomas A. Saenz, MALDEF president and general counsel. “MALDEF is proud to support these scholarship recipients, a small sample of the committed law students who will work to restore Latino rights in years to come.”
Each year, MALDEF asks a national Law School Scholarship Committee of leading attorneys to help select our scholarship recipients.
“It is an honor to recognize the exceptional talents of these students. MALDEF’s Law School Scholarship Program takes pride in supporting this next generation of legal advocates and leaders. Our country and the Latino community need their leadership and advocacy more than ever,” said Jose Sanchez, MALDEF board member, Deloitte Global’s Senior Managing Director and Americas Lead Counsel, and chair of this year’s committee. “We thank the major funders of MALDEF’s Law School Scholarship and the program’s committee members for their dedication to these scholars and to the future of our legal profession.”
MALDEF’s Law School Scholarship Program is open to application from any student enrolled at an accredited United States law school.
MALDEF’s Law School Scholarship Committee assesses applicants based on four main factors: 1) personal background and financial need; 2) academic and extracurricular achievement; 3) demonstrated commitment to serving the Latino community, shown through academic, extracurricular, or professional record of service; and 4) future plans to advance the rights of Latinos.
MALDEF also proudly announces its scholarship program for this year. Applications for the 2019-2020 MALDEF Law School Scholarship Program, due by Dec. 31, 2019, are available for download at our website, www.maldef.org.
Donations may be made to MALDEF’s Law School Scholarship Program here.
A Complete List of MALDEF’s 2018-2019 Law School Scholarship Recipients And Brief Bios Can Be Found HERE.
Jonhatan Aragon
University of California, Irvine, School of Law
Martha Cardenas
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
Betsaida Chavez Garcia
University of Idaho College of Law
Christopher Galeano
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
Nicholas Gonzalez
Stanford Law School
Angelica Hernandez
University of California, Irvine, School of Law
Felipe Hernandez
Harvard Law School
Jessica Herrera
UC Hastings College of Law
Elisa Huapilla
Ave Maria School of Law
Erik Jimenez Rodriguez
University of California, Irvine, School of Law
Leslie Joya
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
Kelly McClure
Yale Law School
Ricardo Morales
Columbia University School of Law
Enrique Martinez Ramirez
University of Texas School of Law
Ariahna Sanchez
University of California Davis School of Law