After working for 6 years as a secondary math teacher working in LAUSD, I decided to pursue a different avenue to potentially “help people.”  Unsure what this career of “helping” would look like, and with most of my relevant college knowledge and experience disappearing, I decided to give law a shot.  While working on the application for a year, I realized that the problems that my students faced and my frustrations with being unable to reach my students stemmed from legal issues.  Immigration, family, and criminal issues kept my students from participating and engaging in my classes.  I learned that legal issues seep into the emotional, physical, and psychological aspect of individuals, even though these individuals are not even aware of its effects.  That’s why after 7 years of teaching I left LA, my condo, adulting, and freedom to move back into my childhood home occupied by a 100-year-old-grumpy-japanese man to become a lawyer.

After surviving the 1L year, I was accepted into the  Access to Justice Tech Fellowship cohort for 2018.  As part of the curriculum and learning opportunity each fellow was given their own blog to document their summer work and address various social justice issues.