FBANC

Law Students play an important role in FBANC, and FBANC welcomes law students’ participation and ideas. FBANC supports law students in a number of ways including its annual scholarships and mentor-mentee program.

Scholarships:
Each year, FBANC presents scholarships to qualified law students who have shown a committment to issues involving the Filipino-American community.

Current law students in good academic standing and those admitted to law school for the academic year are eligible to apply for the FBANC Legal Scholarships. FBANC historically has granted two scholarships, the FBANC Scholarship and the Raymond L. Ocampo Jr. Scholarship. Last year, each scholarship was awarded in the amount of $2,500.

Congratulations to the recipients of the FBANC Legal Scholarships for 2010!

Roel Mangiliman
FBANC Scholarship

Before entering law school, Roel graduated from UC San Diego, where he worked heavily on youth activism and educational equity issues. As an undergraduate, Roel produced a sweatshopfree fashion show, co-created a diversity leadership institute, and served as President of Kaibigang Pilipino, UCSD’s largest student
organization. As a 1L at UC Davis School of Law, he actively works in the Coalition for Diversity, American Civil Liberties Union and the Filipino Law Student Association, where he will serve as next year’s President.

This summer, he will intern at Justice Now, a legal clinic for incarcerated women, and Lazaro Law Group, an immigration firm primarily serving Filipino clients. In the future, Roel hopes to work for a racial justice impact litigation firm.

Tiffany Cruz Gonzalez
Raymond L. Ocampo, Jr. Scholarship

Tiffany Cruz Gonzalez is a second year student at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law and is the Internal Vice President of the Pilipino American Law Society. This summer Tiffany will merge her two passions, education and the law, in the first Hastings Summer Law Institute, a diversity pipeline program for San Francisco 11th and 12th graders.

Before law school, Tiffany served as a Teach for America teacher in Washington D.C. She taught 12th grade and was a finalist for the “New Teacher of the Year” Award. Tiffany has also served as an intern for Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and in the Department of Justice, Federal Programs Branch. Tiffany grew up in the Bay Area and spent much of her high school career working with non-profits on promoting non-violence amongst youth and fostering positive youth development. At the end of her high school career, she was inducted into
the San Mateo County Woman’s Hall of Fame as the Young Woman of Excellence. Tiffany earned her Masters degree in Education at American University in 2008 and graduated from Colgate University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy in 2006.

Group-Based Mentorship Program:
This program is intended to give students and attorneys an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas about the legal profession.

Participating students and attorneys complete a short questionnaire so that FBANC can match mentors and mentees according to practice areas of interest. The matched students and attorneys will then have an opportunity to meet at a casual event hosted by FBANC.

If you would like to participate as a student or attorney, please email David Mesa.