About this Event
Our first in-person event since 2019!
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Next Gen Awards is a yearly fundraiser and celebration of the newest cohort of ChangeLawyers scholars. These students are first generation, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and others whose lived experiences and identities are significantly underrepresented in the halls of power.
Featuring the 2022 ChangeLawyers Scholars and a keynote fireside chat with host/producer Saul Gonzales and law professor Jody Armour, moderated by Walt Disney Co staff lawyer Princess Manasseh.
We welcome our community members to attend this event, including scholar family/friends, donors, and the LA legal and social justice community.
Please note this is an outdoor event.
Saul Gonzalez is co-host of “The California Report” from KQED. Previously he was a reporter for KCRW and host of There Goes the Neighborhood: Los Angeles. Saul has reported on such issues as California's sexual predator policies, high speed rail, the debate over right to die laws, and the struggles of LA's street vendors. Prior to his work in radio, Saul was the Los Angeles producer for PBS NewsHour, a reporter for the weekly magazine series "Religion & Ethics Newsweekly," and a producer and reporter for a variety of series and news specials on Los Angeles PBS affiliate KCET. During his television career, Saul reported on human rights abuses in Central America, Europe's struggles to assimilate its growing Muslim populations, and military tensions on the Korean Peninsula. He has been honored with eight Emmys and 10 Golden Mikes. He's also received the Radio Journalist of the Year Award two years in a row from the Los Angeles Press Club.
A widely published scholar and popular lecturer, Armour is a Soros Justice Senior Fellow of The Open Society Institute’s Center on Crime, Communities and Culture. He has published articles in Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies, University of Colorado Law Review, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Southwestern University Law Review, and Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law. His book Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America (New York University Press) addresses three core concerns of the Black Lives Matter movement—namely, racial profiling police brutality, and mass incarceration. He has recently completed a second book that examines law, language, and moral luck in the criminal justice system. Armour often appears as a legal analyst on NBC, CBS, ABC, MSNBC, KPCC, KCRW, and a variety of other television and radio news programs. At the request of the US Department of State and European Embassies, Professor Armour has toured major universities in Europe to speak about social justice as well as Hip Hop culture and the law. His work on the intersection of these topics grew into a unique interdisciplinary and multimedia analysis of social justice and linguistics, titled Race, Rap and Redemption, produced by USC alumna J. M. Morris, and featuring performance by Ice Cube, Mayda del Valle, Saul Williams, Lula Washington Dance Theatre, Macy Gray Music Academy Orchestra, and Mailon Rivera.
Princess Manasseh is a journalist turned lawyer, and a ChangeLawyers Fellow at Al Otro Lado, a legal service organization at the US-Mexico border serving deportees, refugees, and separated families. As a descendent of the people who built this nation under the force of terrorism, serving populations experiencing human rights violations akin to what her ancestors survived is meaningful community activism Princess feels privileged to take part in. Her work at Al Otro Lado is focused on the Border Right’s Project by providing direct representation to detained asylum seekers. Princess attended California State University, Los Angeles on a tennis scholarship where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Broadcast Journalism. She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Miami School of Law.
Event Sponsors
- Southern California Edison
- The Walt Disney Company
- AccessLex
- ABA Retirement Funds
- Heritage Bank of Commerce
- San Francisco Giants
- Colantuono Highsmith Whatley, PC
- Johnston, Kinney & Zulaica LLP
- Kazan McClain Partners' Foundation
- CalBar Connect
Scholarship Sponsors
- California Lawyers Foundation
- Cox, Castle & Nicholson LLP
- Downey Brand LLP
- Fenwick & West LLP
- Keesal, Young & Logan
- Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Klinedinst, PC
- LimNexus
- Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
- Morrison & Foerster LLP
- The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
- Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
- Pacific Gas & Electric Company
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
- Reed Smith LLP
- Stupski Foundation
- WilmerHale LLP
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes, 501 North Main Street, Los Angeles, United States
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