Greetings from the Midwest! I wanted to send ya’ll an update on my journey and my summer as a legal intern for the Minnesota Vikings! First of all, the stereotyped accent and friendly nature up here is a real thing. Surprisingly, its even noticeable to a southerner, like me, who believes hospitality is home grown and experienced best in…
The deepest rooting of my passion in wanting to be a lawyer resides in my childhood athletics. It sounds trivial at first, and maybe even a bit cliché, but the Boys and Girls Club of Richardson, Texas was a home away from home for me: a place where the sport of basketball was used as a hobby for some such…
Women in Sports Law Conference: I attended the Women in Sports Law Conference at the Staples Center in Los Angeles last week and was lucky enough to be in the presence of four successful women who have transitioned their law careers into the sports world. During a panel discussion with these women, I learned about how they have propelled their…
Even when I heard “Boys won’t like you if you’re stronger than them, better than them, smarter than them…that a brown girl should know her place in the home, that being a tom-boy wasn’t ‘cute’ when you got older…” I always said I really don’t care what they think, because then they don’t care about what I think. What they…