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About the Lead Contributor
accepted one of her job offers.
The Lead Contributor is a native & proud
New Yorker. But sick of shoveling snow, she The Lead Contributor, Randi Forbes, was
graduated with a B.A. in Criminology, minoring in enrolled in her law school’s 2-year Accelerated
African American Studies from a school in Florida. Honors Program and graduated May 2019. Randi’s
Then she obtained an ABA-approved paralegal reputation of commitment to other law students was
certificate and B.S. in paralegal studies, graduating well-earned. When good-naturedly teased about her
early from both, summa cum laude and magna cum level of involvement by her colleagues, Randi has
laude, respectively. Before attending law school, she been known to laugh and state, “Law school’s hard
worked in an alternative sentencing court as a enough – I just want other law students to feel
researcher primarily in the court’s sex trafficking supported.” She served as her law school’s student
department and volunteered to teach job and representative of Equal Justice Works and her law
computer skills to low level former offenders while school’s chapter vice-president of a human rights
simultaneously maintaining her job as a real estate organization. Most notably, Randi was asked to serve
agent. Subsequently, the Lead Contributor worked as on the national stage in the National Black Law
a paralegal in mid-to-large sized law firms, primarily Students Association (NBLSA) as the National
in the area of litigation. Parliamentarian, Chair of the National Elections
Committed to public interest work, the Lead Committee, Chair of the National Constitution &
Contributor has participated in her law school’s Bylaws Committee, performed some national
Center for Public Interest Law, Civil Rights Clinic, secretarial functions, and filled in as interim acting
and Legislative Advocacy Clinic with the state’s civil National Chief-of-Staff all in the same year. Randi
liberties union and volunteered as a student previously served NBLSA as the Northeast Regional
representative in the Courtroom Advocates Program Designee to the National Elections Committee and
representing clients seeking to obtain orders of earlier as local chapter Parliamentarian, 1L Academic
protection from their abusers. Over her second Coordinator, regional and national convention
summer in law school, the Lead Contributor interned delegate, and was groomed/elected to serve the
with an entity working with members of the chapter in several other roles.
community living with HIV in the housing and Randi Forbes, Lead
immigration departments. Upon (hopefully) passing Contributor
the bar, she will be working in the area of civil rights
law. Through networking, she received and recently
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