HLAI Charities

A huge thank you to our wonderful Lucky 7 sponsor, ♦️LAW OFFICE OF DAVID C. HERRERA,LLC♦️ for your generous contribution to our charity casino night! Your support will directly fund scholarships for deserving students. 🎲💙

Giving Tuesday is here, and your support truly makes a difference.

HLAI and HLAI Charities is committed to uplifting our community through scholarships, mentorship, and service, but we can’t do it without you.

Today’s Latino students who dream of becoming lawyers face barriers that your generosity can help break down. By supporting HLAI Charities, you’re investing directly in the next generation of Latino legal professionals: students who will advocate for our communities, shape the legal landscape, and open doors for those who come after them.

This Giving Tuesday, we invite you to be part of that impact in two meaningful ways:

Donate directly using the QR code and help us continue empowering aspiring Latino attorneys through scholarships and programming.

Join us this Friday at our Holiday Party, where every ticket purchased also supports HLAI Charities’ mission. Buy your tickets by visiting hlai.org

Every donation—big or small—helps us create opportunities, expand representation, and fuel the dreams of future Latino lawyers.

Thank you for supporting our students and giving with heart this Giving Tuesday.

🌟 HLAI Charities Bar Preparation Scholarship Recipient 🌟

We are proud to recognize a law student whose journey to the legal profession reflects resilience, leadership, and an unwavering commitment to her community.

During her time at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, she served as a 1L Tutor, Student Facilitator for the Professional Identity Formation program, and mentor for the Latinx Law Student Association—roles through which she supported the academic advancement of women and students of color. She was also a fellow for the Rodin Center for Social Justice, organizing “Lunch and Learns” and symposiums that addressed pressing issues such as the immigration system, homelessness, and racial justice. As a 3L, she served on the executive board for the Immigrant Rights’ Coalition, where she organized Know Your Rights workshops and collaborated with student groups to build awareness around immigration law and policy.

Reflecting on her path, she shared:

“Law school was an opportunity for me to learn how to challenge oppressive immigration and labor systems that marginalize families like my own. By attending law school and becoming an attorney, I seek to serve members of my community facing the same struggles my family encountered: wage theft, lack of legal status, and deportation.”

Her professional goals focus on public interest law, with a commitment to “crim-migration,” employment, and housing law in the short term, and impact litigation and policy reform in the long term. She aspires to work on issues including racially biased policing, youth justice, and immigrant rights—driven by her belief that her social and moral duty is to create better socioeconomic and political circumstances for people like her family.

Now preparing to practice in Illinois, she has already dedicated her time to organizations like The Resurrection Project and the Autonomous Tenants Union, providing legal support, translation, and advocacy for immigrant and low-income communities in Chicago.

Congratulations to our recipient—and thank you to our donors for helping us support the future of our profession!