Fellowship Awardees
The Sarita and Claire Wright Lucas Foundation Summer Fellowship Program provides African American female law students with a paid summer internship opportunity in the Massachusetts Suffolk and Middlesex District Attorney’s offices
Each Fellow receives a $7,000 stipend for the 10-week summer program. This Program aims to ensure that young female African American law students from all backgrounds are able to gain meaningful experience in public interest law.
2024 Fellowship Award Recipients
JOSIANNE HAMILTON
2L Law Student
Boston University School of Law
Josianne Hamilton is currently a 2L Law Student at the Boston University School of Law. She previously received her B.A. in Political Science and Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies from the University of Connecticut. Josianne has extensive law experience, including work with the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, a Research Assistant to Dean Onwuachi-Willig, the Legislative Drafting Clinic, and the Capitol Consulting Firm. She has been offered a position to work with the Middlesex DA’s office again in the summer of 2024.
Josianne has been an active contributor to the BU Law community, serving as the President of the Women’s Law Association, an editor for the Public Interest Law Journal, and an Antiracist Scholars for Progress, Innovation, and Racial Equity (ASPIRE) Scholar. In addition, she received a Presidential Scholarship from the University of Connecticut, as well as attaining the Dean’s List for the 2021-2022 academic year.
AKA MAGNIN ALEXANDRA EHOULE
2L Law Student
Georgia State University Law School
Alexandra Ehoule is currently a 2L Law Student at the Georgia State University School of Law. She received her Masters and Bachelors in Political Science from Georgia State as well. Since beginning law school, Alexandra has worked as a Contract Analyst/1L summer intern with Accenture, LLP and is currently a Legal Extern with the Criminal Justice Division of the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Georgia. She will continue this externship while she works with the DeKalb County Attorney’s Office this summer.
Alexandra is an active participant in the Georgia State law community. She is a member of the Mock Trial Team, the Rising President of the Disabled Law Student Association, and the Secretary of the Christian Legal Society. She also volunteers with the Sickle Cell Foundation of Georgia, in which she was honored with the “Best Volunteer” award in 2022. For her hard work and achievements, Alexandra has received various scholarships and was on the President’s List at her university in 2020
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2023 Award Recipients
HAWOLUL (HAWA) IBRAHIM
2023 Fellowship Awardee
Candidate for Juris Doctorate J.D. May 2024
Suffolk University Law School
Internships
- U.S. District Courts, Judicial Intern for the Honorable Denise J. Casper
(January 2023 – present) - Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, Civil Rights Divison, Summer Legal
Intern (May 2022 – August 2022) - Massachusetts Advocates for Chidren, Racial Equity and Access Project,
Intern (May 2020 – April 2021) - Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA),
Development Intern (May 2020 – August 2020)
2022 Award Recipients
IRENE DENIS
2022 Fellowship Awardee
Candidate for Juris Doctorate J.D. December 2022
New England Law School
- Black Law Students Association, President (2020 – 2021)
- Women’s Law Caucus, Member (2019- Present)
Internships:
- AmeriCorps, Office Inspector General (OIG) – Legal Intern (September 2021- Present)
- New England Law Boston Law Clinical Law Office – Family Law Student Attorney (August 2021-December 2021)
- The Law Offices of Onaodowan and Delince, PLLC – Summer Legal Intern (June 2021- August 2021)
- Faudoa Law – Summer Legal Intern (June 2020- August 2022)
TAILAYAH MACKLIN
2022 Fellowship Awardee
Candidate for Juris Doctorate J.D. May 2024
Suffolk Universty Law School
- Black Law Students Association, Treasurer (2020 – Present)
Internships:
- Suffolk County District Attonrey’s Office – Victim Witness Adovcate (August 2020- Present)
- United States Department of Labor: Office of the Solicitor – Paralegal Intern (October 2016-December 2016)
2021 Award Recipients
JUSTINE VERONIC MORGAN
2021 Fellowship Awardee
Candidate for Juris Doctorate J.D. 2023
Suffolk University Law School.
- Suffolk University Black Law Student Association – Secretary
- Women of Color Law Student Association – Member