Grace Meng, who directs the Judge Rand Schrader Pro Bono Program at UCLA School of Law, has been selected to receive the Pro Bono Services Award from the Legal Services Corporation.

This article was originally published on the UCLA Newsroom website on March 1, 2018. We share it here with UCLA Newsroom's permission.

Rising Up: Juvenile justice advocate Frankie Guzman reaches new heights

by Joshua Rich

A team of student researchers from UCLA School of Law’s Prison Accountability Project have published a report that details incarcerated individuals’ experiences in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) facilities during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Before Shiu-Ming Cheer ’00 made her way to the halls of UCLA Law, she was already involved in the pursuit of social justice as an undergraduate activist at UC Berkeley. Her activism came to a head in 1995 when she, along with other student organizers, was arrested after performing a sit-in during a UC Regents’ meeting to protest the UC system’s plans to eliminate its affirmative action policy.

UCLA School of Law and its nationally renowned program in public interest law and policy solidified its position as the home of the country’s most promising public interest lawyers in 2023, as six graduating students in the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy earned prestigious fellowships to serve communities across the United States.