La Raza Law Students Association
Proudly Presents the Sixth Annual

Cruz Reynoso Social Justice & Judicial Externship Fellowship Dinner

Friday, April 11, 2008
Reception at 6:00 p.m. Dinner at 7:00 p.m.
Hs Lordships Restaurant
199 Seawell Drive
Berkeley, CA 94710

Featuring Keynote Speaker
The Honorable Leopoldo "Leo" Dorado, Class of 1974
Superior Court of California, County of Alameda

Guest of Honor,
The Honorable Cruz Reynoso, Class of 1958
former Associate Justice, California Supreme Court,
and
Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality,
at the U.C. Davis School of Law (King Hall).

Thanks to the vision and generosity of alumni, law firms, and other supporters, La Raza Law Students Association is realizing its dream of creating a sustainable fellowship to support Latina/o students interested in public interest law. This year La Raza Law Students Association is pleased to announce that it will be awarding two fellowships: the Cruz Reynoso Social Justice Fellowship and the Cruz Reynoso Judicial Externship Fellowship. Our organization will continue to support Latina/o students interested in public interest law as well as financially support a Latina/o student pursuing an unpaid judicial externship. By adding a judicial externship fellowship, we hope to increase the number of Latina/os in the judiciary.

With your help, our fundraising efforts have been successful. Our first year, we raised over $40,000. Since then, we have raised over $30,000 each year. In 2006 we endowed the Cruz Reynoso Social Justice Fellowship. Our current goal is to raise enough funds to endow the Cruz Reynoso Judicial Externship Fellowship.

Last year the Honorable Cruz Reynoso presented Ms. Monique Berlanga the CRSJF award and Ms. Desiree Ramirez the CRSJ Externship award. The fellowship enabled Ms. Berlanga to spend the summer working at the Legal Aid Justice Center in Richmond, VA, where she worked as a law clerk in the JustChildren program, focusing on education advocacy. This work included direct representation of children to obtain appropriate educational services in court and in IEP meetings, community outreach and education, conducting policy research on national education funding for at-risk students, attending state Board of Education Meetings, participating in legislative committee work on alternative education, as well as lobbying for education policy reform. The externship fellowship allowed Ms. Ramirez to work for Judge Wardlaw of the 9th Circuit. Ms. Berlanga is currently the co-chair for the 2008 Cruz Reynoso Fellowship Dinner and Ms. Ramirez is currently the co-chair for the La Raza Law Students Association for the 2007-2008 school year.

La Raza Law Students Association
recognizes the invaluable contributions of:

La Raza Law Students Association would like to thank all of our great contributors. Your generosity is creating a legacy of commitment to community service.

Fundadores

Patrocinadores ($6,000 and up)

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP

We also thank Leandro Duran, his partners at Duran, Ochoa & Icaza, LLP,
and the Duran Foundation for their committed institutional support.

For a sponsorship packet (in PDF), please click here.

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