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Sophia Tan JD/MA '19, a Clinical Law Fellow at Georgetown Law's Racial Equity in Education Law & Policy Clinic, offers insights into why she chose to pursue a career in public interest law, her road to law school, her law school experience, and her decision to start her public interest law career directly after law school.
Tan graduated from Duke University with a master's degree in public policy from the Duke Sanford School along with her JD. She received an Independence Foundation Public Interest Law Fellowship that supported her work at the Education Law Center in Philadelphia after graduation.
To learn more about public interest law at Duke Law, please visit https://law.duke.edu/publicinterest/.
Chapters:
0:00:17 What inspired you to pursue a career in public interest law?
0:01:18 What types of public interest resources did you find at Duke?
0:02:22 What classes at Duke Law informed your career interests?
0:03:37 What were your initial experiences in public interest law after graduation?
0:04:40 What is your advice for students interested in public interest careers?
0:05:42 What drives your passion for working in public interest law?
Sophia Tan JD/MA '19, a Clinical Law Fellow at Georgetown Law's Racial Equity in Education Law & Policy Clinic, offers insights into why she chose to pursue a career in public interest law, her road to law school, her law school experience, and her decision to start her public interest law career directly after law school.
Tan graduated from Duke University with a master's degree in public policy from the Duke Sanford School along with her JD. She received an Independence Foundation Public Interest Law Fellowship that supported her work at the Education Law Center in Philadelphia after graduation.
To learn more about public interest law at Duke Law, please visit https://law.duke.edu/publicinterest/.
Chapters:
0:00:17 What inspired you to pursue a career in public interest law?
0:01:18 What types of public interest resources did you find at Duke?
0:02:22 What classes at Duke Law informed your career interests?
0:03:37 What were your initial experiences in public interest law after graduation?
0:04:40 What is your advice for students interested in public interest careers?
0:05:42 What drives your passion for working in public interest law?
