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25th Annual Auction Brings In Over $26,000 for Student Public Interest Fellowships
The Feb. 22 UB Students for Public Interest (UBSPI) auction made it possible for six students to have paid summer public interest fellowships. An additional six fellowships were provided to UB Law students by Maryland Legal Services Corp. These fellowships provide
critical legal experience to students working in nonprofit and government agencies.
UBSPI is a student group that informs students about the breadth of opportunities in public interest law and works to provide opportunities in this area of the law.
The grants supported students working at Project HEAL, D.C. Law Students in Court, Legal Services of Northern Virginia, Maryland Office of the Public Defender, Maryland League of Conservation Voters and Baltimore County Office of the Public Defender.
“Students who aspire to practice public interest law know that they will not be the attorneys with six-figure salaries right out of
school, but we do it because we believe in serving underprivileged communities and using our legal superpowers to help others,” says Sarah Simmons, J.D. ’19, who served as UBSPI president
in her 3L year. “Providing paid fellowships to these students enables them to focus full-time on both their development at the organization and the communities they are serving, without having to split their time working a second paid job.”
“The event was a great success,” says Simmons, “not only because we met our fundraising goal, but because we had the enthusiastic participation of students, faculty, staff and alumni. We had a broad range of auction items this year, with a particularly robust and diverse silent auction.”
Thank you to everyone who supported the auction and UBSPI, including our generous in-kind sponsors, volunteers, attendees and everyone who bid on auction items. We couldn’t have done it without you!
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