I serve as the Associate Dean for Enrollment and Inclusion, so I really do get to know the students, and want to do my best as a professor, as an Associate Dean, to try to ensure that we have the most inclusive environment as possible. Whether it is an affinity group, whether it is the Wisconsin Association of African American Lawyers, which I am a member. We also have a faculty diversity committee, and the faculty diversity committee also meets with the students and affinity groups, and there's frequent events that these organizations have. In fact, the faculty diversity committee is sponsoring the Race and the Law series that we have had at the Law School now for the last several years.
You can tell that Marquette puts a lot of thought into diversity and inclusion. We have a few different organizations, student organizations dedicated to this. I myself am a part of the Black Law Students Association, and one of the things I really enjoyed was visiting a judge's chambers over at the Milwaukee County Courthouse, which was great because it gave those who wanted to participate in litigation some real-world networking experience.
I came into law school not really knowing any attorneys. I don't have any attorneys in my family or anything like that. So one of the first things I got involved at Marquette, it was First Generation Professionals. It really helps connect you to, like, the legal community and just the professional community in general. It can be stressful as a law student, but what makes it enjoyable and survivable is kind of the friends you make through these student orgs.
Milwaukee is very diverse, and it's important for students to know and understand that if they come to this law school that they will have the opportunity to work with a very diverse group of individuals, and in fact, our alumni, who are very much involved, will continue to interact with the students after they graduate.
