SAN FRANCISCO — In 2005, Oakland family law attorney Tara Flanagan got out her Rolodex to help the daughter of a client.
Amily He, then a Skyline High School sophomore and recent immigrant from China, had witnessed her father attack her mother in the family home. Through interviewing He about the incident, Flanagan says she saw “something special” in her, and suspected she might be a gifted student who would benefit from mentoring. The two met every few weeks after the case settled, and Flanagan encouraged He to apply to prestigious summer programs in the arts and sciences, in Los Angeles one summer, and at the Massachusetts Institution of Technology the next.
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