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…
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…