Breakthrough Twin Cities is a non-profit organization working with students who face barriers to post-secondary education, to achieve success in college and careers. Breakthrough is seeking volunteers to work as college essay coaches with our 11th graders on April 20th from 1pm-5pm.
Essay coaches focus less on the mechanics and grammar of writing, and more on helping students articulate their own compelling personal narrative for college essays. ACS volunteers will have the opportunity to meet in-person with one or two students, hear their stories, and work with them to craft a compelling first draft of their college essay. Ice cream will be served to all volunteers.
Essay coaching will take place at Mounds Park Academy in St. Paul. For more information, please contact Dylan Saul at dsaul@fredlaw.com.
Join the Loyola University Chicago School of Law ACS Chapter for a conversation with Keith Ellison, the Attorney General for the State of Minnesota. Keith Ellison was sworn in as Minnesota’s 30th attorney general on January 7, 2019. As the People’s Lawyer, Attorney General Ellison’s job is to help Minnesotans afford their lives and live with dignity, safety, and respect. His guiding values are generosity and inclusion. He is the first African American and the first Muslim American to be elected to statewide office in Minnesota.
In 2020, AG Ellison took over as special prosecutor in the George Floyd case. During the program, AG Ellison will provide his recollections from George Floyd’s Murder, the trial, and the aftermath, and discussing ending the cycle of police violence.
Please join the American Constitution Society for a discussion on how best to use creative litigation strategies to advance causes such as reproductive justice, immigrants’ rights, consumer justice, and criminal justice in light of the judiciary’s rightward shift. The panel will be moderated by Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, who will be joined by Shilpi Agarwal (Legal Director, ACLU NorCal), Nicolas Espíritu (Deputy Legal Director, National Immigration Law Center), and Jill Habig (President of Public Rights Project). Lunch will be served.
The event will be a presentation of Prof. Érika Fontánez Torres' new book "El derecho a lo común: bienes comunes, propiedad y justicia climática." There will be a commentary by Prof. Pedro Saade, Prof. Luis E. Rodríguez and student Víctor Burgos Díaz. Afterwards we will open the floor to questions and possibly conversation with attendees. It will be a brown bag lunch event with pizza.
Join ACS Drake as we host a Criminal Law Professor for a discussion of the Schmidt decision- Appel was a part of that--that established a claim of actual innocence as due process for post-conviction claims.
Please join HLS ACS for a lunch talk with the 41st Solicitor General of the United States, Seth Waxman.
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