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Dean Kinney Writes about IU McKinney's Fellowship Initiative
10/31/2022
IU McKinney has launched a program aimed at improving representation in the legal academy. Assistant Dean of Diversity and Inclusion Patricia Kinney, J.D. ’02, wrote a column about that for Indiana Lawyer.
The “Future Faculty Fellows” Visiting Assistant Fellowship program is designed to recruit future law professors into this teaching, scholarship, and mentorship pipeline. The Future Faculty Fellows program also furthers the law school’s mission by advancing the law school’s recently adopted diversity, equity, and inclusion strategic plan.
“As a student of color and a first-generation law student in Indiana, I did not have others who looked like me to aspire to be or to mentor me with empathy as I navigated into a profession not meant for me and filled with unwritten rules I did not know,” Dean Kinney wrote in the piece. “I did not feel as if I belonged. At the time, I had no clue what I was enduring was not unique. We have a long way to go in our evolving society that continues to become more diverse. Unfortunately, we are in the 21st century and still lacking representation in so many spaces, including in our law schools and esteemed profession.”
To learn more about the fellowship, visit the law school’s website.
