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Austin Bar Awarded $15,000 Grant for Podcast

The Austin Bar Association was awarded a $15,000 grant from the Texas Bar Foundation to continue its dedicated service to the legal community in Central Texas through programs and initiatives in 2023.

The Bar submitted a proposal expressing a desire to create a podcast aimed at informing the community on important issues. One particular initiative highlighted by Austin Bar President Amanda Arriaga is the Council of Firsts. Arriaga, the first Hispanic female president of the Austin Bar, plans to open the door to communication on the topics of diversity, equity, and inclusion in leadership. The objective is to discover challenges and find solutions by having conversations and sharing knowledge with leaders from varying backgrounds and experiences through a podcast.

The objective is to discover challenges and find solutions by having conversations and sharing knowledge with leaders from varying backgrounds and experiences through a podcast.

“I will be working with the other ‘Firsts’ at the Austin Bar, and we will be having discussions, making presentations, writing articles in the spirit of trying to discover how we can ensure that the Austin Bar is seen as an inclusive organization. This grant serves as the primary resource for us to obtain the necessary equipment to bring our podcast to life.”

Arriaga says it’s a step to ensure the Austin Bar is at the forefront of making a difference for its members, thereby enhancing the legal community.

Since 1965, the Texas Bar Foundation has awarded more than $24 million in grants to law-related programs. Supported by members of the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Bar Foundation is the nation’s largest charitably-funded bar foundation. AL