The Seattle U Law Northwest Center for Indigenous Law (NCIL) has received a three-year, $300,000 grant from the First Nations Development Institute, in partnership with the Ishkode Fund, to launch the Tribal Estate Planning and Legal Access Fellowship.

This year’s Scholars for Justice are using their own backgrounds as immigrants as inspiration to help future newcomers gain legal residency, economic stability, and a permanent new home.

Zulen Pantoja-Ortega ’24 and Tiana Pereira ’24 regularly help out at the King County Juvenile Detention Center as part of the Youth Education & Advocacy Project (YEAP). Here, Pantoja-Ortega and Pereira share their experience working with incarcerated youth.