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I would have done anything to meet Sadie TM Alexander... She is my idle. I ran across her name about 10 years ago when I was in high school. I went to a high school that did not have many African Americans, and when I told my advisor (who was black) that I was thinking about being a lawyer, she wanted me to have a black woman to look up to and admire and she gave me her name. I looked her up, and knew from her strength and conviction that I could do it! She was the first black woman to graduate from the University of Pennsylvania (an Ivy League School) with a law degree and PhD and the first in the country. She changed Penn and black women in law as we know it.

I have worked hard to achieve my dreams and in the fall I will be attending the University of Pennsylvania Law School. I thank her for her inspiration....