Community Work

| Past Events
· Fundraising coordinator AIDS Quilt · Speech coach for high school mock trial · Legal Aid Society (Honolulu, HI) · College Professor
| The importance and value of community work took root at a very early age. There was not a month that went by during her youth that she did not participate in some type of volunteer work with her family. As time went by, her contributions increased and she created her own volunteer events starting with social events at the local nursing homes and adult living centers growing into coordinating the fundraising for the AIDS quilt presentation at her college in 1994.
While in law school, she worked in the law clinic helping very sick poverty stricken people get federal benefits. It was because of her contribution in the law clinic that was awarded the Maryland Public Interest Law Grant to work for the Legal Aid Society in Honolulu, HI with their General Assistance to Social Security Program. During law school, her commitment to human rights took her abroad to Scotland and then South Africa. After graduating law school, she became an adjunct faculty member at local community colleges teaching law and speech classes. She also committed years to coaching high school mock trial teams both in the county and in the inner city. |
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