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Meet the 2021-22 MCBA Legal Scholars
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The MCBA Legal Education Scholarship program provides scholarships up to $5,000 to
financially disadvantaged students from Marin pursuing a law school degree. Funded with contributions from the MCBA, it is a collaboration with 10,000 Degrees and the Marin Community Foundation, which administer the fund.
If you would like to support the next generation of Marin lawyers, please consider making your tax-deductible donation today.
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Samantha Cox-Parra is a second-year at Berkeley Law, where she is a student researcher for the Berkeley Reproductive Justice Project and a conference coordinator for the Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law. Samantha attended Terra Linda High and received her undergraduate degree in rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley, the first in her family to earn a college degree. Prior to law school, she was a legal intern at the Marin County Public Defender’s Office, a judicial intern at STAR Court with Judge Wood, and a caseworker at the Associated Students of the University of California’s Legal Clinic. This past summer she was a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. As a first-generation professional, Samantha aspires to serve her community, bring change,
Clavey Robertson is a first-year student at the University of California, Hastings School of Law. Clavey attended Redwood High School and received an undergraduate degree at the age of 19 from the University of California at Berkeley with Honors in History. At UC, Berkeley Clavey was a library research assistant and participated in a number of labor strikes by assisting with strike preparation and interviewing attendees for the local newspaper. Clavey has also been involved in his community by delivering food to low income and disabled individuals through the Meals on Wheels program, as well as raising thousands of dollars towards a Tanzanian Children’s orphanage and school. Clavey’s experience with the Labor movement fueled the desire to go to law school and the aspiration to represent those in underserved communities, as well as shaping domestic policy.
