Two law students from South Bend recently received “Diversity in Practice” Awards from Indiana Lawyer, a statewide newspaper for those in the legal profession.
The awards are presented for “extraordinary efforts in pursuing and creating a culture of diversity and inclusion within their institutions,” according to the publication.
The area winners are:
South Bend resident Karrah Miller, a student at Valparaiso University School of Law; and
Jessica L. Brock, a student at the University of Notre Dame Law School.
Miller is a graduate of Clay High School and a 2005 graduate of Purdue University. She is president of the Black Law Students Association at Valparaiso. After racial slurs were written on the university’s former Martin Luther King building, the association organized a student-faculty panel to discuss race relations and diversity on campus.
Brock served as an HIV and human rights intern in Uganda this past summer and also worked at a legal intern at the Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic. She earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology and theology from Notre Dame in 2005, then worked as an assistant in an immigration law office in Kansas. She previously had interned at the office of attorney Rodolfo Monterrosa in South Bend, helping complete immigration paperwork for clients.