Write a brief personal essay (250-750 words) that explains how the PDLG eligibility requirements apply to your personal story or experiences. Please explain the challenge or challenges you have faced including, but not limited to, life situations in which your opportunities were diminished significantly by factors beyond your control such as socio-economic status, discrimination, sparse academic resources or opportunities, and/or other similar adverse circumstances on the path to a legal career. Please also explain how you overcame the challenge[s] and include a description of important or unique qualities, goals, attributes or achievements that arose from meeting those challenges.
Please describe your role in any significant extracurricular or co-curricular activities (including any office held or leadership role) and describe any awards, academic or otherwise, that you received in college, graduate school, or law school.
