Law School Life & Beyond Leadership Series - Tyrone Sequeira, 2L Law Student Dual JD Program

<p>This week Katya Rowley is joined by Tyrone Sequeira. Tyrone is a current 2L law student in the Dual JD program at the University of Windsor and the University of Detroit Mercy.</p> <p>In law school, Tyrone serves as the Vice President of Academic of the Student Law Society, the Vice President of Advocacy for the Black Law Student Association, Windsor Chapter, Co-President of Innocence Windsor and a Project Lead for Pro Bono Students Canada. &nbsp;</p> <p>Through an intersection of these roles and interests Tyrone helped create a new Pro Bono Project for Youth with Incarcerated family members. In this new Pro Bono Project Windsor Law students will get to work with Windsor-Essex Children Aid Society to help make a lasting difference for youth in the Windsor community.</p> <p>This year Tyrone was awarded the Royal Society of Canada’s Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella Prize as a law student who is most likely to positively influence equity and social justice in Canada or globally upon graduation.</p> <p>In this episode, Tyrone shares some insight on what motivated him to develop this new Pro-Bono Project and what role law students/ lawyers can play in giving back to their community.</p>