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Happy New Year Ms. JDs! We’re celebrating 2012 and Looking Ahead to 2013. (Post 1 of 2!)
By Katherine Larkin-Wong • January 08, 2013 •Features
To Our Ms. JD Community:Happy New Year! Over the next two posts, we'll be celebrating some of our favorite moments of 2012 and looking forward to 2013. Most importantly, we want your help in determining what we're going to deliver for you this year! We thought we'd start by looking back over some of our best moments of 2012:1. In January, Ms. JD hosted our first ever Ms. JD regional event, bringing together women from law schools around the Bay Area to watch the hit documentary Miss Representation. We had so much fun that we repeated the event in DC and then…
15 Things You Didn’t Know About NWLSO Liaison Connie Lam
By Connie Lam • January 05, 2013 •Features
1. I am terrified of balloons. Love them in theory, but when I see them in person I am in dread fear of them popping.2. I make a killer red velvet cupcake that actually tastes like chocolate. Cream cheese frosting, of course. Anything else is sacrilege.3. I studied classical piano under the same teacher for 11 years, but was dropped from tennis class for being an uncoordinated menace. 4. If I could do anything other than practice law, I would own and operate a neighborhood bakery and cafe called Lady Lamalot. Okay, maybe the name could use some work.5. My…
Fifteen Things You Didn’t Know About Ms. JD Board Member Liz Vaysman
By Liz Vaysman • December 18, 2012 •Features
1. My family immigrated to the US from the Soviet Union when I was two years old. On the way to the US, we lived in Italy for 3 months because we were robbed by gypsies, forcing us to stay for a few months while my Dad painted houses to raise money. Sometimes I imagine what my life would have been like if I grew up in Italy! 2. We ended up settling in Reading, PA where I spent most of my life. It is home of the Reading Railroad that is on the Monopoly board, even though the railroad…
Fifteen Things You Didn’t Know About Ms. JD CFO Sheila Forjuoh
By Sheila Forjuoh • December 13, 2012 •Features
1. I was born in Kumasi, Ghana. Most people don't know this but I didn't move to the US until I was three, and I didn't become a citizen until I was 17. 2. I have an unhealthy obsession with sweet potato fries. Ditto for dutch apple pie. If you're ever in Montreal, make sure to stop at Rockaberry for their awesome pies. It'll change your life. 3. I own way too many Longchamp bags, but I LOVE them. They are awesome for work, play, travel, and everything in between. And they last FOREVER. If you are in a the market for a new…
Help Ms. JD Celebrate the Holiday Season With the Gift of Women’s Leadership
By Katherine Larkin-Wong • November 30, 2012 •Features
Happy December Ms. JD! For our law student community, December brings with it the promise and dread of the end of the semester - the race to the finish line with finals and papers. Take a deep breath and know that you're going to do great! For our community of lawyers, December brings everything that goes with the close of another business year. We hope you're all not just surviving but thriving! Here at Ms. JD, we're dedicating December to celebrating the gift of women's leadership. As you know, this year has been all about leadership for us. Since January, we've been…
Critical Race Theory: From the Academy to the Community Conference
By Ms. JD Editor • November 25, 2012 •Features
Following the success of the last critical race theory conference held at Yale in 2009, Yale Law School is proud to host the Critical Race Theory: From the Academy to the Community conference on Friday, February 8, 2013 and Saturday, February 9, 2013. The conference is sponsored by the Zelia & Oscar Ruebhausen and Debevoise & Plimpton Student Fund at Yale Law School, the American Studies Department, the Public Humanities Initiative, and La Casa Cultural at Yale College. The conference will convene scholars, legal practitioners, and community leaders to examine the ways in which critical race theory can be applied…
Fifteen Things You Didn’t Know About Ms. JD President Katie Larkin-Wong
By Katherine Larkin-Wong • October 28, 2012 •Features
1. I was born in South Louisiana but grew up in Missoula, Montana. Both have had a profound influence on me. Louisiana and my Cajun family gave me my passion for food. Happy, sad, excited, nervous? We feed it! Montana keeps me grounded and I still feel most at home in the mountains. 2. I had the pleasure of attending President Obama's inauguration and inaugural ball in 2009. 3. I love to travel. Road trips, plane trips, train trips up the East Coast, I love them all! The second time I ever traveled abroad, I lived in New Delhi, India…
Let Women Vote: Attorney-Suffragettes
By Kellie Campbell • October 22, 2012 •Features, Guest Bloggers and Profiles of Women in the Law
So many of us take for granted the simple voting privileges embodied in the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which came into existence in the fall of 1920. We seldom discuss or acknowledge the forty-year battle fought on many fronts by brave women (and men) who were imprisoned and assaulted on account of their efforts to gain women the right to vote. I highly recommend the riveting movie ‘Iron Jawed Angels’ in which Hilary Swank brings to life the historical figure Alice Paul, attorney and suffragist. It’s difficult to imagine a woman lawyer at the turn of the…
Introducing Ms. JD 2012-2013 International Scholar Patience Winnie Apai
By Ms. JD Editor • October 11, 2012 •Features
Editor's Note: This is a previous update on Ms. JD's Global Education Fund. Ms. JD's Third Annual Global Education Fund (GEF) Benefit will be held on August 5, 2015 from 6:30-10 pm at Monarch SF in San Francisco. The benefit will raise funds for GEF and include live entertainment, a silent auction (with items totaling over $20,000 in value) and great food and networking. Please click here to purchase your ticket or donate to GEF. Thank you for your support! In 2010 Ms. JD launched its Global Education Fund and awarded its first grant to the Gender Mainstreaming Division at…