Emery Reddy Scholarship for Legal Studies

Madelyn Chen, Harvard Law School

Madelyn is a second-year law student at Harvard Law School. She currently serves as co-director of the women’s speaker series and diverse leadership series for the Harvard Association of Law and Business, and as co-chair of the fundraising committee for the Women’s Law Association. She plans to join the Child Advocacy Clinic to work with youth in vulnerable situations. Prior to law school, Madelyn graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in English and a minor in Film. Throughout college, she was an avid debater and mentored middle and high school students in public speaking and debating skills. She also served as an intake volunteer at Bet Tzedek legal clinic in Los Angeles, helping connect community members with legal aid, housing, and other resources, which inspired her to pursue a career in law.

Emery Reddy University of Washington
Judge William H. Fuld Workers’ Rights Advocacy Scholarship

Thomas Correia Kaplan, University of Washington School of Law

Thomas is a second-year law student who takes a hands-on approach to learning and engaging in labor law. Over seven years of cultivating relationships with Washington’s groundbreaking farmworker union leaders, he has learned that change is possible when workers lead. Thomas has spent the past year working in labor law, conducting immigration-related research at the University of Washington and assisting in union-organizing efforts across Washington State. Believing that labor, immigration, criminal justice, human rights, and international trade and development are inextricably linked, he seeks to integrate aspects of each into his studies and his future career as a lawyer. Thomas would like to express his gratitude to working people everywhere who fight for their rights and for the betterment of society – it is because of their efforts and movements that he was able to find his calling in public-interest law.