Meet Our Recent Award Winners
2023 Barbara E. Whiting-Wright Bar Assistance Award Recipient
Keniece Gray
Fall 2023 Book Scholarship Recipient
Simone Edwards
Simone Edwards is a Fritz Fellow at the Center on Privacy & Technology, while pursuing her law degree at Georgetown Law. In 2019, she obtained a degree in Political Science, and the honor of being the first to receive a Fulbright award at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga in more than fifty years. Her Fulbright ETA position was in Guatemala, early 2020, and she made the move to Washington, DC in June 2020 to be a City Year AmeriCorps Member. She is now the Senior Communications & Technology Editor for the Georgetown Law Journal and Managing Editor for the Georgetown Technology Law Review. If you can’t find her in a journal office, she might be reviewing a book for her bookstagram.
Fall 2022 Book Scholarship Recipient
Stephanie Jean-Louis
Stephanie Jean-Louis is a second-year law student at American University. She is also pursing her Masters of Public Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health. Before enrolling in law school, Stephanie worked at several healthcare non-profits aimed to transform healthcare to meet the needs of the most complex and disenfranchised patients. Stephanie is dedicating her career to creating, implementing, and evaluating public policy that will reduce health disparities and promote health equity.
2021 Barbara E. Whiting-Wright Bar Assistance Award Recipient
Daraja Carroll,
Daraja Carroll is a 2021 graduate of American University Washington College of Law (“WCL”). During her time at WCL, Daraja served the campus community as President of the Black Law Students Association and Senator of the Student Bar Association. She also served as a Sub-Regional Director for the Mid-Atlantic Black Law Students Association. Daraja taught a yearlong Constitutional law and oral advocacy course at School Without Walls in Washington, D.C., as a Teaching Fellow with the nationally-recognized Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project. During her last year at WCL, Daraja interned with the National Center for Youth Law and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights’ Stop Hate Project.
Daraja aspires to be a civil rights attorney and will begin a 1-year legal fellowship in DC in the fall. In her free time this summer while, preparing for the California bar exam, Daraja will be rooting for the Golden State Warriors and living out her foodie dreams.
Past Scholarship Recipients
Joy Applewhite, 2019 GWAC Foundation, Inc. Book Scholarship
Lourdes S. Eliacin Mars, 2019 GWAC Foundation, Inc. Book Scholarship
Dionne Dillard, Fall 2020 GWAC Foundation, Inc. Book Scholarship
Megan Moffett, 2020 GWAC Foundation, Inc. COVID-19 Impacted Employment Grant
Bilqis Watts Wilkerson, Spring 2020 GWAC Foundation, Inc. Barbara E. Whiting-Wright Bar Assistance Award
Janae Staicer, Spring 2020 GWAC Foundation, Inc. Barbara E. Whiting-Wright Bar Assistance Award