Question 1: I plan to matriculate this fall 2025. I have put down a seat deposit at Wake Forest University School of Law, and am on the waitlist at Yale Law School. Question 2: My legal interests lie in the intersection of entrepreneurship and intellectual property, and I hope to work with businesses and creatives to protect their work in the age of artificial intelligence. In the short term, I hope to enter private practice post-law school and grow my expertise. I am an academic at heart, and in the long term, I wish to return to the classroom as a law professor. Question 3: I have always been an avid reader. I spend most of my free time juggling several books, and whether it is fiction or non-fiction, I love literature because you always learn something about the world or the way in which you see it yourself. Back in 2019, I read Richard Rothstein's "The Color of Law", which was one of the books that made me interested in the law. In it, the city the I live in was mentioned and it discussed how a highway that was built de facto segregated Winston-Salem. Reading about this made me want to know more about the real life impact of this separation. As I did more research, I gained a better understanding of why things such as food deserts existed to such a degree and I felt compelled to reach out to people I had met over the years to find a way a way to take action, no matter how small. Question 4: I spent over a decade in the service industry in a variety of leadership roles. Once while I was working at a Chick-fil-A franchise in West Texas I was faced with a tough decision: should I terminate an employee whose accumulated tardies made them dismissible per the handbook but I knew that the underlying cause was their mental health struggles that they shared in confidence with me? During one of our director's meetings, this employee came up and a fellow director asked me why I had not taken action on this yet. I didn't want to break confidentiality, but I also did not want to appear like I was favoring this employee in any unmerited fashion. I simply explained to the rest of the directors that this employee had other factors that were affecting their ability to be on-time for early morning shifts, and that we should not terminate them despite the rule because to do so would worsen the situation and that they were a valuable team member nonetheless. I was aware that taking this stance could have had negative repercussions for me, but it was the right thing to do. This prompted bigger conversations about approaching discipline holistically when necessary in our restaurant, which improved our restaurant's culture in the long term. I have carried this experience into every other leadership role I have stepped into, and has challenged me to continue ensuring fairness in every space I am in. Question 5: If I had the resources to create a philanthropic initiative, I would establish a foundation that helped under-represented students navigate higher education. As a DACA recipient in North Carolina, I faced economic barriers to higher education as a result of our state's policy that says students like me have to pay out of state tuition. It took over a decade of working jobs to pay for my education and finally obtain my bachelor's degree. In the future, I would like to pay it forward, and if I could, I would provide financial support and mentorship to other under-represented first-generation students who are talented but may face constraints. I believe that our communities need professionals who reflect the communities they serve, and I would like to be a part of making this representation a reality.