This summer, Chicago Community Bond Fund will be hosting one of National Lawyers Guild’s Haywood Burns Fellowship recipients.  The Fellowships sponsor law students and legal workers to spend the summer working for public interest organizations across the country in order to build their legal skills , strengthen their long-term commitment to social justice, and provide much-needed legal support to under-served communities.

Christine Farolan is a 1L at Northeastern University School of Law and a proud daughter of Filipino immigrants. After graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in Social Policy, she completed an AmeriCorps year of service for the Legal Assistance Foundation. At LAF, she organized volunteer opportunities for attorneys and law students and assisted in management of a pro bono legal services clinic in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. In law school, she is a co-chair of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. She is also a member of the Criminal Law Project, with whom she has been researching campus police authority and misconduct. Christine hopes to use her career to further criminal legal reform and is eager to work with the Chicago Community Bond Fund as a Haywood Burns fellow.

Chicago Community Bond Fund is excited to have Christine working as a 2019 summer intern. Christine will be supporting CCBF’s revolving fund by helping conduct intakes and also supporting their systems change work through doing research, writing, and other policy advocacy.

NLG Chi congratulates Christine Farolan.  We are thrilled to have you working in our community this summer.