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Is Kim Kardashian in law school?
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Is Kim Kardashian in law school?
isn't officially enrolled in law school but is learning through an apprenticeship to become a lawyer.
California does not require a law degree as a prerequisite for taking the bar exam.
She plans to take the California bar exam in 2022.
announced her plan to become a lawyer when she graced the cover of Vogue in May 2019.
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When announced her plans she said: “I just felt like I wanted to be able to fight for people who have paid their dues to society. I just felt like the system could be so different, and I wanted to fight to fix it, and if I knew more, I could do more.”
late father, Robert Kardashian, was an attorney but she credits her interest to study law to her work with criminal justice reform advocate Van Jones on his efforts to lower the incarcerated population.
Who are Kim Kardashian's mentors?
mentors and study buddies are Jessica Jackson and Erin Haney.
Jessica is a human rights attorney and the Chief Advocacy Officer at Reform Alliance.
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The mom of two was the youngest mayor of Mill Valley, California.
Erin is also a human rights attorney and the National Policy Director at Reform Alliance.
They are both involved in #cut50 with Jessica as co-founder, Erin as Senior Counsel, and Van Jones as co-founder.
#cut50 is an initiative started in 2014 to “cut the prison population and crime in[sic] 50 percent in the next 10 years.”
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As an intern at #cut50 has to complete at least 18 hours of work for them each week, with five hours of supervised work.
pays for Jessica and Erin to be flown to Los Angeles to supervise her or they work through FaceTime and phone calls.
What has Kim Kardashian done for criminal justice reform?
visited the Oval Office to advocate for the early release of Alice Marie Johnson, a 63-year-old great-grandmother who was sentenced to life for a nonviolent drug offense.
After her meeting with , Alice was granted clemency.
As the news of Alice's release spread, people in prisons, their family members, and lawyers, started writing letters to asking for her help.
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In 2020, released a documentary, “Kim Kardashian West: The Justice Project” in which she supports the early release of four people who were convicted on charges including murder and sex trafficking.
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The film tells the stories of Dawn Jackson, Alexis Martin, Momolu Stewart, and David Sheppard.
About the documentary Kim said: “I wanted to pick very specific people — in a sex trafficking situation, in a murder — and really show people that once you maybe get to know their background and their history, you might soften up, too,. And there’s a lot of people who are really deserving of these second chances.”
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