Miguel Willis Named First 카지노 Presidential Innovation Fellow
Newtown, PA
Inspiration to pursue a legal education can come from many different directions해외 카지노 추천”a friend or relative, a perceived injustice, or even a new TV show. 카지노 has added another source of inspiration해외 카지노 추천”a fellowship that supports emerging leaders who will work to inspire prospective students to pursue legal education by developing innovative pathways to advance justice and the rule of law. 카지노해외 카지노 추천™s first Presidential Innovation Fellow is Miguel Willis, the 2016 National Jurist Law Student of the Year.
Miguel해외 카지노 추천™s entrepreneurial spirit, drive to innovate, and commitment to diversity and access to justice made him the ideal choice to become 카지노해외 카지노 추천™s first Presidential Innovation Fellow. He is committed to using his law degree in a nontraditional way to solve seemingly intractable problems. At 카지노, he will grow his , which he founded while obtaining his JD from Seattle University School of Law. It is a national 10-week, summer fellowship program that trains law students to work with technology to improve delivery of legal services, many through Legal Services Corporation (LSC)해외 카지노 추천“funded organizations. Training is primarily online and covers technology competence, project management, legal design thinking, and cultural competency. For the coming summer, his program will support 25 fellows from 23 law schools.
Miguel해외 카지노 추천™s own inspiration to combine legal education with technology to help solve the problem of access to justice for low-income and remote populations came from attending his first access to justice hackathon. He was inspired by the lawyers he met there who were working with students to solve problems with an energy and focus that he found very contagious.
Miguel sees himself as a 해외 카지노 추천śfacilitator and connector who can do deep diving and examine the issues within issues.해외 카지노 추천ť He values his legal education for honing his analytical and problem-solving skills, as well as his communication and writing skills, but he wants to provide pathways for entrepreneurial law students, such as himself, who want nontraditional learning experiences and opportunities that don해외 카지노 추천™t necessarily involve being hired by a law firm. The skills that Miguel learned at hackathons해외 카지노 추천”agility, nimbleness, iterative problem solving by thinking, doing, testing, and evaluating해외 카지노 추천”are those that he has used to pursue his nontraditional career and that he hopes to instill in an ever-increasing number of law students.
카지노 Presidential Innovation Fellows will serve two-year overlapping terms. Fellows assist 카지노 with its work in building the justice pipeline while having structured support to incubate their fellowship project.
해외 카지노 추천śMiguel is inspiring,해외 카지노 추천ť said Kellye Testy, 카지노 President and CEO. 해외 카지노 추천śOut of his desire to solve problems for others, he is creating new pathways to use a law degree to advance the common good. Our world needs more Miguels!해외 카지노 추천ť
The application process for selection of the next Presidential Innovation Fellow (term to begin in September 2019) will open on September 10, 2018, at 카지노.org.
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