 I grew up in a small town and I saw where, if you're from a certain side of the track, you didn't get treated as nice as people from the other side of the track. This is our criminal justice system, it's supposed to be here to serve all of us equally and it doesn't. And so whatever little bit that I can do to make it as equal as possible, that's what I want to do. We are writing wrongs and correcting transgressions of a system that has existed for the entirety of our nation's history. Lex's African Ancestry Network and our rule of law foundation teamed up and it put together this fellowship from the six HBCU law schools. The fellowship is a program that consists of 12 law school students from the six HBCU law schools in the United States and fellows were selected from a large competitive applicant pool for this prestigious fellowship where they've been awarded $10,000 and the opportunity to work on projects that they've proposed to eliminate systemic racism in the legal system. One of the things that we wanted to do with the LexisNexis partnership is just really open up the opportunity for students to have access to the incredible resources of LexisNexis in terms of doing broader research that really focus on diversity in the profession. Our project deals with the underrepresentation of women of color, particularly black women in leadership roles across law firms. We're doing papers of publishable quality related to our research. It's important and definitely necessary that our work was of publishable quality because then this research can be used to further the areas that we're all kind of approaching. I'm surrounded by individuals who you can just see that they're achieving at a high level at their institutions. Their ideas are just mind-blowing and the topics that they're tackling and the problems that they're tackling. The best part of this fellowship so far has been just meeting such wonderful people. Meeting other students from law school that are just as bright and ambitious as I am. Meeting the LexisNexis employees who are so helpful and so generous and they seem to be really invested in my success. This fellowship celebrates everything that makes LexisNexis special which is our people who are inspired to advance the rule of law. I was given the opportunity to present to all of the deans of the law schools involved in the fellowship. I realized we've been able to do so much. I've been able to connect with really awesome people. My mentor for the program is the Vice President for Law 360 and that is just incredible and the way that she has helped me develop my project, the way she's helped me think about it, was all reflected in that presentation. Working at Law 360 and LexisNexis, our purpose has always been to support the rule of law throughout the globe. Being part of this fellowship alongside the rule of law foundation has really meant for me that we can move past good intention and really start taking action and it's felt real. It's felt practical. The endeavor into the law and graduating and passing the bar in my opinion will essentially change my family tree. It will change the trajectory and the boundaries that we may have set for ourselves based on those around us and our family backgrounds. Our fellows are leaving a legacy and I believe that the work that they're doing now will be looked upon is really heroic in the years to come and I'm so privileged that LexisNexis gets to be a part of that journey with them. Ending systemic racism is going to be something that we need to be committed to for a long long time and so having dedicated people taking on these projects in new ways and bringing in new ideas to the fellowship will be something that we'll look forward to with great interest. I would describe the fellowship as challenging, creative and hopeful. Fellowship is inspiring, challenging and most importantly exciting. The fellowship is a uniquely transformative opportunity. Hardworking, striving for success, eliminating systemic racism. I would describe the program as life changing work. The fellowship is prolific, profound and powerful.