ABA awards two LGBTQ public interest law scholarships

The American Bar Association Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity has awarded two law students LGBTQ Public Interest scholarships of $5,000 each. Now in its sixth year, the scholarship program is aimed at law students and/or law school graduates studying for the bar who are either LGBTQ or who will be doing public interest work in the LGBTQ space.

The scholarship provides financial support to work in the public interest arena for the summer/fall of 2024.

This year’s recipients are:

Jordan Cozby, a rising second-year student at Yale Law School. Cozby is a member of the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and a student research fellow with the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy. Born and raised in Alabama, his work focuses on advancing civil rights and economic justice in the South. Before law school, Cozby worked as a legislative assistant for Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff and served as co-chair of GLASS, the Senate LGBTQ+ staff association. As an undergraduate at Yale University, he interned for Human Rights Watch’s LGBT Program, the Movement Advancement Project and Global Labor Justice. This summer Cozby is working at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in Atlanta, and in the fall he will research legal reforms related to LGBTQ+ elder law for the Solomon Center.