My name is Tracy Vu, and I am a first generation law student at the University of San Francisco. I spent this summer working as the Carl L. McConnell Fellow for the housing team at the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County. As I begin my second year in school, I am looking back on my summer experience and what brought me to where I am now.
We’re proud to share that the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County has recently received the DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Leadership Silver Seal from the State Bar of California as a result of three years of hard work by the organization’s Race Equity Initiative Committee.
In 2023, Allison Marseille, Deputy Director at Legal Aid SMC, worked with leadership across the organization to complete the proposal process for the 2023 Yield Giving Open Call along with 6,500 other nonprofits. Established by MacKenzie Scott, Yield Giving initially hosted the Open Call to select 250 of these organizations to receive a million dollar grant to support their work serving communities...