PA Legal Aid Network e-News

The Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network celebrated the 2008 Martin Luther King Jr. Internship Program at a reception that was held on August 6, 2008 at the Dauphin County Bar Association in Harrisburg.

Pedro A. Cortes, Secretary of the Commonwealth was the keynote speaker at the Recognition Reception.

Secretary Cortés was nominated as Secretary of the Commonwealth by Governor Rendell on April 2, 2003 and was unanimously confirmed by the Senate on May 13, 2003, making him the first confirmed Latino Cabinet member in Pennsylvania history.

Funding and financial support for the MLK Internship program is provided by the Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyers Trust Account Board and the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare. PLAN appreciates the ongoing support of these organizations for the MLK program.

The 2008 edition of The Drum Major, a collection of essays by the interns reflecting on their summer in legal services, was distributed at the reception. The essays included in The Drum Major may be viewed at the link below.

Certificates of Recognition were presented to the interns who participated in the internship program during 2008. Interns receiving recognition included:

• Mukta Agrawal
  Pennsylvania Health Law Project
  
  
• Sakeenah S. El-Amin
  Community Legal Services
  
  
• Karen Fernandez
  Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project
  Philadelphia Legal Assistance
  
  
• Amanda K. Franzen
  Neighborhood Legal Services Association
  
  
• Benjamin Haire
  Northwestern Legal Services
  
  
• Ema L. Iruobe
  Community Impact Legal Services
  
  
• Cherie N. Long
  Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania
  
  
• Tedeisha Rowe
  Regional Housing Legal Services
  
  
• Sheldon A. Smith
  North Penn Legal Services
  
  
• Alejandro Ventura
  Community Justice Project
  
  
• Truniece L. White
  MidPenn Legal Services

2008 Drum Major
Biography of Secretary Cortés

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