Ms. Tanairy Delgado is a second-year law student at the University of Illinois College of Law. She received her bachelor’s degree in Global Studies, with minors in French and Criminology, Law, & Society, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Ms. Delgado is interested in pursuing a legal career in health law and/or elder law. She hopes to work in-house for a healthcare organization. The HLSF scholarship will lessen the burden of her student loans and allow her to focus on her career goals.
“We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.” -Sonia Sotomayor