The night before graduating from law school, living a dream I could not have imagined just a few years ago. And. One day after watching my state murder a man. A few small thoughts:

1.) Going to law school is a privilege. Going to law school also makes you a part of a profession

that has perpetuated so much evil that, after three years of trying, I cannot wrap my head around it. Qualified immunity? The doctrine that lets police officers get away with murder? Created by lawyers.

2.) Climate change? The legal landscape that prevents oil companies from

being held accountable for destroying a planet? The results of the system rigged by layers.

3.) Coercive contracts? Pages of inaccessible language written to strip power from workers & consumers, in order to enhance the power of corporations? Drafted & enforced by lawyers.

4.) And yet, I don’t know that I have ever been as inspired as I have been over the last theee years. Every day at HLS I have met people—a few lawyers included—who have made me believe that a better world is possible.

5.) I believe so deeply that this profession can be better. We can serve communities and movements and people who are working for real justice. Lawyering for justice can become the norm, not the brave exception.

6.) Tomorrow, Bryan Stevenson will give our commencement address. What a world we could live in if he was not held up not as a saint, but simply as an example of what we can all do with a law degree.

7.) I don’t know how to get to this world, but three years at @Harvard_Law and I know I have to try. I don’t know how I could ever begin to be worthy of the privilege of this degree, but I will spend my career trying to be.