2024 Summer Fellowship Application

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* 1. Applicant's name

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* 2. What is your preferred pronoun?

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* 3. Contact Information

Address *

Address 2

City/Town *

State/Province *

ZIP/Postal Code *

Country

Phone Number *

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* 4. What is your preferred email address?

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* 5. What is your permanent email address?

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* 6. Where are you originally from?

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* 7. What is your race?

Black or African American

Hispanic or Latino

Asian or Asian American

American Indian or Alaska Native

Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander

White

Another race

Rather not answer

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* 8. What law school do you attend?

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* 9. Anticipated graduation year

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* 10. Are you a Black law student in good academic standing currently enrolled in an ABA accredited law school?

Yes

Other (please explain)

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* 11. What life experiences have led you to feel passionately about public defense?

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* 12. Given the imbalanced power dynamic of the legal system, why not prosecution?

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* 13. What readings, people, theories, etc. have helped inform your political ideology?

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* 14. 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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* 15. 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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* 16. If you have not yet secured a placement, would you be interested in participating in a fellowship at any of the following locations?

New Orleans, LA

Nashville, TN

Minneapolis, MN

Dayton, OH

Cleveland, OH

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* 17. Please describe your financial need (i.e., cost of summer living expenses and other costs/financial hardship)

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* 18. Have you applied for other summer funding? If yes, where? Has funding been awarded?

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* 19. Are you able to secure funding through your law school or public defender office to support this fellowship?

Yes

I'm not sure

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* 20. If so, how much have you been awarded?

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* 21. Have you applied for the BPDA Law Student Fellowship in the past?

Yes

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* 22. 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?

PDF, DOC, DOCX, PNG, JPG, JPEG, GIF file types only.

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* 23. Please upload a copy of your resume in PDF format here. Your PDF file name should include your first and last name.

PDF file types only.

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* 24. How did you hear about the BPDA Summer Fellowship Program?

Career services

School counselor's office

Facebook

Twitter

BPDA website

Other (please specify)

2024 Summer Fellowship Application

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* 1. Applicant's name

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* 2. What is your preferred pronoun?

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* 3. Contact Information

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* 4. What is your preferred email address?

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* 5. What is your permanent email address?

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* 6. Where are you originally from?

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* 7. What is your race?

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* 8. What law school do you attend?

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* 9. Anticipated graduation year

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* 10. Are you a Black law student in good academic standing currently enrolled in an ABA accredited law school?

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* 11. What life experiences have led you to feel passionately about public defense?

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* 12. Given the imbalanced power dynamic of the legal system, why not prosecution?

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* 13. What readings, people, theories, etc. have helped inform your political ideology?

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* 14. 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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* 15. 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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* 16. 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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* 17. Please describe your financial need (i.e., cost of summer living expenses and other costs/financial hardship)

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* 18. Have you applied for other summer funding? If yes, where? Has funding been awarded?

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* 19. Are you able to secure funding through your law school or public defender office to support this fellowship?

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* 20. If so, how much have you been awarded?

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* 21. Have you applied for the BPDA Law Student Fellowship in the past?

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* 22. 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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* 23. 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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* 24. How did you hear about the BPDA Summer Fellowship Program?

* 22. 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?