Allison Kent

Allison Kent, General Motors Scholar, University of Michigan Law School.

Prior to Harvard College, Allison's year of community service with City Year Boston solidified her passion for grassroots social justice. She's since taken that passion to Bolivia as a Fulbright Scholar and then public health worker with marginalized Afro-Latino and indigenous communities, and to Guatemala and Mexico partnering with human, indigenous, and women's rights organizations. Most recently, Allison worked in rural Sierra Leone with Timap ("Stand Up") for Justice, a grassroots legal justice organization of community-based paralegals. At UM Law, among other activities, Allison is co-President of the International Law Society, an Associate Editor of the Michigan Journal of International Law, and was awarded a Michigan Fellowship in Refugee and Asylum Law for summer 2006.

Allison Kent, 2006 General Motors Scholar attending the University of Michigan Law School, wrote: