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.

Scholarship applications for 2010 are now available. Awards are presented at the annual installation dinner, tentatively scheduled for May 7, 2010.

Congratulations to the recipients of the FBANC Legal Scholarships for 2009!

Joanne Villanueva
FBANC Scholarship

Joanne is a 1L at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, and is primarily interested in civil rights, immigrants’ rights, and critical race theory. She is active in the Pilipino American Law Society (PALS), the Coalition for Diversity, and the Legal Aid Society’s Workers’ Rights Clinic. This semester, she also helped found the Women of Color network. Prior to coming to law school, Joanne engaged in legal activism through Women’s Legal Education, Advocacy, and Defense and the Third World Movement Against the Exploitation of Women. Joanne graduated from Brown University in 2005. As an undergraduate, she served as an Executive Board Member of the Filipino Alliance, a Minority Peer Counselor Friend, and the President of Archipelag-a, a Filipina spoken word organization. She is also a member of Brown’s Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Dyanna Quizon
Raymond L. Ocampo, Jr. Scholarship

At the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Dyanna helped co-create the Women of Color network and is a member of the Pilipino American Law Society. As part of the inaugural class of the UCDC Law Program, Dyanna is currently spending her spring semester as a legal intern for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. She credits her participation in the organization Filipinos for Obama, recently re-named Kaya: Filipino Americans for Progress, for reigniting her interest in national politics. She graduated from the University of California, Davis with highest honors. Dyanna also served as a Congressional intern for Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA).

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.

This year’s event is scheduled for Feb. 24, 2010. If you would like to participate as a student or attorney, please email David Mesa.