Women's Law and Public Policy Fellowship Program (WLPPFP)

Goals of the Program

- Provide a unique opportunity for law school graduates to be exposed, primarily through the workplace, but also in an academic setting, to public policy issues affecting women;

- Encourage lawyers, particularly women and minority group members, to pursue work in or give time to the public interest as an integral part of their professional careers;

- Create a larger pool of informed attorneys, in private practice and government as well as in nonprofit organizations, who are aware of and concerned with public policy decision making and the effects of that decision making on women;

- Forge new links between those working on the same or similar women's issues inside and outside of government, consciously coordinating efforts and sharing information;

- Enable law graduates to perform meaningful work with organizations that otherwise might not be able to afford to hire them;

- Demonstrate to law graduates the intimate connection between policy making and lawyering;

- Contribute to the work being done in the capital toward the improvement of the status of women and increase understanding of women's issues as public policy issues of importance equally to men and women;

- Maintain effective research and advocacy efforts designed to assure continued and improved enforcement of laws and regulations designed to help women; and

- Develop within the Program a forum for Washington leaders and other prominent policymakers to meet and discuss public policy issues relating to women.