Khaldoun Baghdadi ’97 has had a keen sense of justice as long as he can remember. At age 16, while working as an usher at a movie theater, he tried to start a union to address the issue of insufficient overtime pay. “I thought if we had some sort of…
Martha Mendizabal grew up during the rapid proliferation of PC and mobile-phone technology in the 1990s, but she had no access to those types of devices as a poor child in Tijuana. It forced her to play catch-up as an undergraduate at UCLA. Mendizabal is now working to ensure the…
Alex Sauerwein, 2L, had been interested in organic farming ever since he fed chickens and picked produce in his backyard while growing up in San Jose, Calif. But it wasn’t until his junior year in college that he decided to make sustainable agriculture the focus of his career. He was…
When she was a junior at UC Irvine, Victoria Ayeni read An Expendable Man in a course called “Miscarriages of Justice.” The book tells the story of Earl Washington, Jr., an intellectually disabled black man wrongly convicted of the rape and murder of a white woman in Virginia. He spent…