Susan Kania
Susan Kania

Susan Kania, a rising third-year UW Law student, has won a Peggy Browning Fellowship for Summer 2020. Kania is spending her ten-week fellowship working for the American Federation of Teachers, based in Washington, D.C.

The Peggy Browning Fellows program provides stipends to exceptional first- and second-year law students, who dedicate their summers to working for labor unions, worker centers, labor-related nonprofits and union-side law firms. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all Summer 2020 fellows are working remotely.

At UW Law, Kania is pursuing public interest and labor law. She serves as president of the Labor and Employment Law Student Association and worked as a research fellow at UW’s School for Workers.

Kania grew up in Greendale, Wisconsin. The daughter of a public school teacher, she became active in anti-Act 10 protests as a high school student, which fueled her interest in worker rights advocacy. She earned her bachelor’s degree in history at the UW-Madison. As a member of UW’s Student Labor Action Coalition, Kania helped fight against unsafe working conditions in factories that produced Bucky Badgerwear. She also completed a service term with AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.

The Peggy Browning Fellowship is a competitive award, intended to encourage law students to consider labor law as a career choice. More than 500 law students applied for fellowships this year.

Submitted by Law School News on July 14, 2020

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