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2024 Summer Fellowship Application
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Applicant's name
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What is your preferred pronoun?
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Contact Information
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Address
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Address 2
City/Town
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State/Province
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ZIP/Postal Code
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Country
Phone Number
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What is your preferred email address?
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What is your permanent email address?
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Where are you originally from?
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What law school do you attend?
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Anticipated graduation year
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Are you a Black law student in good academic standing currently enrolled in an ABA accredited law school?
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Other (please explain)
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What life experiences have led you to feel passionately about public defense?
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Given the imbalanced power dynamic of the legal system, why not prosecution?
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What readings, people, theories, etc. have helped inform your political ideology?
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Please describe any experience you have working in a public defender office. If you have prior experience, please be sure to include the name of the office and your supervisor.
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Have you already secured an internship at a public defender's office for summer 2024? If yes, please list the name and location of the office where you will be working.
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If you have not yet secured a placement, would you be interested in participating in a fellowship at any of the following locations?
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New Orleans, LA
Nashville, TN
Minneapolis, MN
Dayton, OH
Cleveland, OH
No
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Please describe your financial need (i.e., cost of summer living expenses and other costs/financial hardship)
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Have you applied for other summer funding? If yes, where? Has funding been awarded?
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Are you able to secure funding through your law school or public defender office to support this fellowship?
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Yes
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I'm not sure
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If so, how much have you been awarded?
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Have you applied for the BPDA Law Student Fellowship in the past?
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No
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In 3000 characters or less, answer the following:
1. Why do you want to be a public defender?
2. How will this Law Student Fellowship advance your professional goals?
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Please upload a copy of your resume in PDF format here. Your PDF file name should include your first and last name.
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How did you hear about the BPDA Summer Fellowship Program?
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Career services
School counselor's office
Facebook
Twitter
BPDA website
Other (please specify)
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