Speakers
As the Program Director of the Law and Leadership Institute (LLI), Rachel A. Wilson coordinates programming for LLI’s statewide pipelining program for high school students. Rachel was born and raised in Washington, D.C. and she attended college at the University of Pennsylvania. At Penn, Rachel played Division I basketball and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English Literature and minor in Africana Studies. After college she joined Teach for America and taught 8th grade English for two years at Frederick Douglass Academy V in the Bronx, New York. Also during this time, Rachel earned her Master’s Degree in teaching at Pace University.
Shortly thereafter, Rachel attended the University of Michigan Law School where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Michigan Journal of Race & Law. After law school, Rachel served as the Assistant Director at the Association of American Law Schools in Washington D.C., where she worked on a host of matters including membership review, diversity recruitment and retention of law students and faculty, media relations, and higher education policy.
In late 2013 Rachel moved to Columbus, Ohio where she currently serves as LLI's Program Director in order to merge her interests in secondary and higher education and to help further diversify higher education and the legal profession. The Law and Leadership Institute is a statewide initiative in conjunction with the legal community that inspires and prepares students from underserved communities for post-secondary and professional success through a comprehensive four-year academic program in law, leadership, analytical thinking, problem solving, writing skills, and professionalism. As the Program Director of the Law and Leadership Institute, Rachel works to promote diversity in the legal profession by working to recruit and retain diverse high school students, throughout the state of Ohio. Rachel also identifies positive and effective teaching methods in order to develop and the curriculum for LLI. In addition, Rachel drafts administers and manages statewide implementation of the Summer Institute, Academic Year curricular programming, including, but not limited to, student competitions, contests, and community service projects.