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DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION
Additional Highlights for 2023
Amazon Day 1 Legal Academy (D1LA) Closing Giving Back: National Women’s History Museum
Event Sponsorship (NWHM) Sponsorship
In July 2023, AFS sponsored Amazon’s Day 1 Legal Academy (D1LA) In March 2023, AFS sponsored the NWHM in support of their efforts
Closing Event in support of the program participants’ successful to bring stories of Black women feminists in DC out of the shadows
completion of the internship program. The Academy is an internship through the online companion site for their exhibition, “We Who
program with the goal of providing underrepresented law students and/ Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC.” The exhibition spotlights the
or law students who have a demonstrated commitment to diversity with stories and voices of more than 20 Black feminist organizers and
exposure to in-house legal practice. Interns are paired with an Amazon theorists — including Anna Julia Cooper, Mary Church Terrell, Eleanor
Attorney/Mentor and participate in a full slate of educational sessions and Holmes Norton, and Loretta Ross — whose work changed the lives of
networking events to give insight into in-house practice areas. An AFS millions of Black women in the DC community and across the country.
summer associate has participated in the internship program since 2022.
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