We are the Arguello Dream Catchers, established 2014.
"This #ColoradoGives season, support LAW SCHOOL…Yes We Can (LSYWC)! We mentor and empower first-generation and underrepresented students to pursue law school and careers in the legal profession. Your donation helps provide LSAT scholarships, experiential education, and professional development workshops that change lives. Together, we can build a more inclusive and equitable future in law. Every gift makes an impact. Please donate today!" - Dr. Kimberle Jackson-Butler, Executive Director, LSYWC
We need YOU!
Be a part of diversity and inclusion by helping Judge Arguello's
LAW SCHOOL...Yes We Can develop tomorrow's leaders.
The first law school pipeline program of its kind in CO – targeting high-achieving college freshmen from diverse backgrounds, Mentors and trains them for four years. It takes Mentoring to a new level!
In addition to helping prospective legal professionals meet the challenges their predecessors faced, the program helps students identify the unique challenges they will face in the future; cultivate the skills and relationships they need to mitigate competitive disadvantages that can accompany those challenges; and perform at their peak academic, professional, and leadership levels while they are still in college. Through exposure programs, LSYWC will demystify the law school application process and give Fellows access to the legal profession.
Stories that matter...
Garrett is a senior at Colorado State and serves as a judicial clerk for the Chief Judge in the 17th Judicial District. He plans to become a guardian ad litem, advocating for the best interests of children in the court system and giving them a voice in difficult proceedings. Through the program, Garrett has valued the support, the chance to build connections, and the workshops that continue to guide him toward his future in law.
Satyakam was born in Nepal and immigrated to the US when he was 4 years old. He attended Erie High School and is a first-generation College graduate. He credits his mother & father for their unwavering love and support. He hopes to work for the federal government as an attorney and work to improve the lives of the American people through any means available.
Jasaline was born and raised in Aurora. As the oldest daughter of a Latino household, expectations were set, and she knew that. She grew up having to protect her little brother from the fear of her immigrant parents potentially not getting the documents they needed to stay in this country. Since then, she knew that she needed to do something, and all she knew was that she had to become the first in her family to graduate from college and pursue a path that could create a change for families like hers. She recognizes the social injustices in the world and has fortified her dream of becoming an immigration lawyer. Now, as a proud LSYWC Fellow, she is excited to take the next step. She knows that the pathway to being a lawyer is difficult but not impossible. With LSYWC, she will grow into her dream of being an attorney and advocate for her community.
RuiZavier was born and raised in Denver, from a family of Mexican immigrant grandparents who arrived in the 1970s. The experience of having been brought up in an immigrant family instilled not only a driven work ethic but a passion to pursue and achieve a higher calling. Where his grandfather never exceeded the 3rd grade, he understood the importance and power that comes with higher education, cultivating a noble and fulfilling career.
Kadidiatou is the daughter of an Immigrant father, coming from Bamako, Mali. She grew up with the loving and encouraging nature of parents who always told her, YOU are the decider of your future. With that, she always excelled in school, no matter the hardship. Kadi has goals to become an immigration or international law attorney. She is extremely excited to become a LAW SCHOOL… Yes We Can Fellow because of the continued guidance that she will receive. She is determined to use her time as a fellow to gain knowledge that she would not have gotten without this program.
IT TAKES A VILLAGE.
LAW SCHOOL…Yes We Can seeks to change the reality for students from communities underrepresented in the legal profession by providing them with the same tools relied upon by students who have more resources at their disposal in their quest to attend law school. In our program’s 10 years, we have increased these students’ access to social capital by pairing rising college freshmen, undergraduates, and non-traditional students who want to become lawyers with law students, attorneys, and Judge Mentors, who provide counseling to our students as they trail-blaze through college, often as first-generation college students.
Because Together...Yes WE Can!
ARGUELLO DREAM CATCHERS | info@LawSchoolYesWeCan.org
LAW SCHOOL…Yes We Can is the first law school pipeline law school program of its kind in Colorado! We target high-achieving college freshmen from diverse backgrounds by offering mentorships, professional training, resume writing, personal branding, study skills, opportunities for internships, and life-skill training. We take mentoring to a whole new level, identifying unique challenges, cultivating skills and relationships needed to mitigate competitive disadvantages. LAW SCHOOL…Yes We Can will demystify the law school application process and give fellows access to the legal profession.
MENTORING * COMMUNITY * SUPPORT AND OVERSIGHT ** EXPOSURE * SKILL BUILDING
We are the Arguello Dream Catchers!
A passionate group of lawyers, judges, volunteers and donors - led by founder and dreamer - USDC Judge Arguello. By sharing her passion to diversify the Colorado judicial system - our team is determined to encourage interaction with young people, sparking their interest in the legal profession.
Judge Arguello's dream materialized after a 2013 legal diversity conference after her law clerk noted that despite conferences, the diversity gauge was not moving much. Judge Arguello agreed that legal diversity required sustained effort, and the organization has been drilling its own legal diversity pipeline ever since with the help of donors like YOU!
Judge Arguello wrote that a common challenge that motivated the creation of LSYWC was the need to drown out the delegitimizing “no” that many bright minds hear when they dare to dream big dreams, such as “I want to be a lawyer.” It is a “no” that is directed at them merely because they do not fit the mold of what someone thinks a lawyer should be. LSYWC first met this “no” with the resounding “YES WE CAN!" of almost 200 hundred lawyers who came together to dedicate time and treasure to making the dream of law school a reality for our Fellows. Now, there are over 250 legal mentors, including 30+ Judges and Colorado Supreme Court Justices as mentors.
Organization name
LAW SCHOOL...Yes We Can
other names
LSYWC, LSSSP, Law School Si Se Puede
2014
Tax id (EIN)
47-3260929
Category
Education
Organization Size
Medium Organization
Address
950 S Cherry St Suite 508Denver County, CO, US