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 law school do you attend?

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* 8. Anticipated graduation year

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

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

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

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* 13. 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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* 14. 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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* 15. 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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* 16. Please describe your financial need (i.e., cost of summer living expenses and other costs/financial hardship)

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

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

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

Yes

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* 21. 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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* 22. 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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* 23. 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

Question Title

* 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 law school do you attend?

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* 8. Anticipated graduation year

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

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

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

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

Question Title

* 13. 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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* 14. 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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* 15. 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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* 16. Please describe your financial need (i.e., cost of summer living expenses and other costs/financial hardship)

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

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

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

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

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* 21. 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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* 22. 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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* 23. How did you hear about the BPDA Summer Fellowship Program?

* 21. 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?