Congrats to Our 2011 PSLawNet Pro Bono Publico Award Winner!
We’re delighted to announce that Felicia Cantrell, a 3L at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, has been recognized as the 2011 PSLawNet Pro Bono Publico Award winner!
Felicia, a third-year law student, is described as a leader, change-maker and fearless optimist when it comes to her zealous advocacy against sex trafficking. As a 1L, Felicia founded the student organization, 13 – Advocacy Against Sex Trafficking (13 being the average age of child sex workers in the U.S.). As a result of her leadership, the group has collaborated with various organizations and has facilitated victim advocate trainings and educational programming for hundreds of law students, attorneys, judges, social workers, teachers and the public-at-large. Additionally, Felicia and the more than 100 students who make up Felicia’s organization volunteer their time to providing legal assistance and screening for domestic violence and human trafficking situations at a local clinic. Currently, Felicia is representing abuse victims in civil legal matters as a student-attorney with the law school’s Family Protection Legal Clinic. She plans on becoming a prosecutor of sex crimes and hopes to found a human trafficking law school clinic.
We will be delighted to honor in person Felicia during NALP’s 2011 Public Service Mini-Conference in Washington, DC.
We also extend our congratulations to this year’s Pro Bono Publico Award runner-up and those who received honorable mention. It is truly heartening to see so many talented law students doing such tremendous work to help those on society’s margins. Read our announcement to learn more about the entire slate of honorees.
