Cause for Action
Advocates for a more inclusive legal profession are worried about the decline in Black law student enrollment
By Ronald Roach
As a Black, first-generation college student contemplating law school, Jomaire Crawford has grown determined this summer to learn as much as she can about the legal profession. A rising junior at St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., Crawford has interned over the past several weeks in a program that has allowed her to observe judges, prosecutors and other court officials at work in the Queens courts.
“It’s helped me to see that the legal profession is not beyond my reach,” she says.
Crawford is one of 35 rising juniors participating in the Ronald H. Brown Pre-Law Summer Program at St. John’s University School of Law. The program is open to rising juniors and seniors who are either underrepresented minorities or considered members of socially disadvantaged groups. Participants must attend either St. John’s or a public New York City college.
