Vie Miller CP#2

I met with Kubra at All Saints Café on Saturday morning. Kubra has only been in the United States for two weeks, but her spoken English was strong enough for us to carry on a two-hour conversation. I hadn’t expected her to sit with her that long--indeed, I lost track of time and had to push back a meeting with a friend--but I don’t regret spending the extra time with her. Kubra is a lawyer in Turkey, and I learned a lot about what it was like for her to go through school and practice law in her country. In turn, I told her about my experience working as a community organizer with the state and local government. She also told me about her dream to get an LLM from FSU and practice human rights law in the United States. I was deeply moved by her passion, and I want to help her improve her grammar so that she can speak at a professional level. To start, I asked her to write a page on why she wants to be a human rights lawyer and what that would look like; in doing so, she will produce a purpose statement that she can use for scholarship applications and a text which I can proofread to help her improve.