As a child I was raised by two wonderful and supportive Puerto Rican parents. My father, a disciplined and hardworking chemical engineer and my mother, a loving and charismatic preschool teacher who had the full-time job of raising me. Throughout my adolescence, my mother would tell me somewhat in jest, “You are great at arguing. You should be a lawyer!” At the time the thought of becoming a lawyer felt as achievable as climbing Mount Everest. Diverse lawyers were not as mainstream in media and pop culture as they are today. Fortunately, one of my older cousins had accomplished what I believed to be insurmountable. She was an accomplished lawyer. She was smart, articulate, and lived comfortably with her family. I remember thinking to myself, “Maybe it isn’t as impossible as I thought …”

Look to Your Left, Look to Your Right …

“Until we get equality in education, we won’t have an equal society.” —U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor

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