I am 26 years old, and have been a member of the bar for just a matter of months. I always knew Latinas were a scarcity in the legal profession, but I guess I had always kept myself in “safe places” like joining the Latino Law Students Association in law school and working in public interest for summer internships where you’ll find the few of us there are working for tragically low salaries fighting to give more people like us opportunities like we had. Once I made the necessary choice to start my career in the private sector (because $35,000 doesn’t get you very far when you’re nearly $200,000 in debt from law school) I faced the reality that we are really one in one hundred of the profession.
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