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Law Practice

Jul. 11, 2012

National Center for Youth Law expands summer program

Marita Grant, a law student at Howard University, has been interested in public interest law and juvenile welfare ever since she was in the foster care system. Now she's making a difference at the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland.


By Ameera Butt


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Marita Grant, a law student at Howard University and summer intern at the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland, says she's always been interested in public interest law and juvenile welfare. That interest stems from her own experiences in the foster care system.


When she was 11, Grant fled Sierra Leone, where she was born, with a guardian during the country's civil war. She found herself in...

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