STRATEGIC PLAN: 1. STUDENTS FIRST KIMBERLY LEWIS AND SUSAN LEE
UNAPOLOGETICALLY UNAFRAID
Kimberly Lewis & Susan Lee BY TERRY CARELLA
The WMU-Cooley culture of support opens doors for students who otherwise would not be able to fit law school into their schedule or consider a career change. Orientation for most students can be slightly overwhelming, but for Kimberly Lewis it was the launch of an exciting new future. A natural extrovert, she had already scoped out her classmates and locked in on one student. Someone she intuitively knew was interesting and smart. Lewis didn’t take long to introduce herself to Susan Lee. She let her know straight away that “we’re going to get to know each other.”
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That kind of approach may have put some people off, but for Lee, who was already shell-shocked and feeling the whole idea of sitting in a law school orientation was surreal, she was happy to find there were nice people at the law school. They exchanged phone numbers after that first day, and every day after they discovered one more connection. “We found out we were in the same classes,” smiled Lee, “then we decided to sit next to each other; then we realized I was from New Jersey, and she was from Boston – then we had that East Coast connection. It just went on from there.”
