Jalen Travis awarded Truman Scholarship for public service

Princeton University junior Jalen Travis has been awarded a Truman Scholarship, which provides recipients with up to $30,000 toward graduate school along with professional development opportunities to prepare for careers in public service.

Travis, of Minneapolis, is an anthropology concentrator who is also pursuing a certificate in African American studies. He is interested in pursuing a career in criminal or public interest law and plans to use the scholarship to pursue a J.D. at Columbia Law School through its L.E.A.D. Fellowship, a two-year deferral program. He hopes to spend the first year working as a criminal defense investigator or paralegal for a public defense firm, and the second year working at a legal justice advocacy organization to better understand that field and policy-level avenues for change.

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