law school workshops for people of color, that's us!!!

For People of Color. Org Law School Workshops

go to forpeopleofcolor.org to register

Tomorrow, October 10, 2009 (I'm going to this one!)

8:30-4:00pm.

UC Hastings School of Law

200 McAllister Street

San Francisco, CA. 94102

Saturday, October 17, 2009

8:30-4:00pm.

UC Davis School of Law

King Hall

400 Mrak Hall Drive

Davis, CA. 95616

Saturday, October 24, 2009

12:00-3:00pm.

UC Merced

5200 North Lake Road

Merced, CA. 95343

Halloween is coming up and my friend Tiffany is having another one of those infamous garage parties at her house! For those of us applying for law school this year, Halloween signals, "get your application the f in now!! or you're going to miss out on your top choice schools!"

For prospective law students, we have the people of color law school workshop parties coming up!!! These are the For People of Color.Org (FPOC) workshops where we meet other folks who come from immigrant, poor and working class families and families of color and we listen to motivational speeches and make new contacts and new friends. We also get free lunches!

My first FPOC workshop was in LA in April. I was blown away by Anthony Solano's, FPOC's founder, speech. This Latino man, who grew up in East LA and was the first to graduate from college in his family, breaks it down for us. Through his speech, Anthony told me that I have a place in the courts and legal field in this country and in my homeland of Tonga as an attorney or a judge, not just as an accused prisoner. Me, a Tongan queer woman, who finally finished her undergraduate degree at the age of 32.

I attended an FPOC workshop a few weeks ago at Berkeley's Boalt Hall. Same thing. I received the courage to keep going on my application and I witnessed that thousands of students are going through the same struggle that I am. I love seeing older people like myself at these workshops because I can relate to what they're going through in this process. Young, traditional age students always seek me out and ask for my advice and I pretend to be wise.

If you're thinking of going into law and wondering about law school, come join the party. They say you're suppose to register but they don't take names at the door or the lunch lines.

This is the party to go to this fall people! No heart aches at this party, only motivation and healing to get you going on your goal to become a lawyer!!!