Lola Velazquez-Aguilu 3L has been named winner of the Association of Women Lawyers (AWL) scholarship in recognition of academic excellence and outstanding service to the law school community and community at large.

Velazquez-Aguilu, a third-year law student, will receive a scholarship in the amount of $2,500.  The AWL will present the award formally on September 27, 2005, in Milwaukee.

A Madison native, Velazquez-Aguilu earned a B.A. degree in political science at the UW-Madison before entering law school, and has been active in political campaigns for several years.  In the 2004-05 academic year, she served as president of the Latino Law Students Association.

She is editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Law Review, and the author of the article "Not Poor Enough: Why Wisconsin’s System for Providing Indigent Defense is Failing," forthcoming in 2006.

Velazquez-Aguilu was a summer associate at Winston & Strawn LLP in Chicago in summer 2005, as well as a summer intern at the Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center in Chicago.

Submitted by on August 29, 2005

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