In 2019, the Houston Young Lawyers Association, a non-profit bar organization, and its President Samantha Torres created history by establishing the first-ever First Generation Attorneys Committee. In effort to amplify the voices and stories of First Gen Attorneys based in Houston, Texas, each episode of this podcast will feature a First Gen Attorney and their story, centered around a given prompt. HYLA and the First Generation Attorneys Committee sincerely thank our sponsor, the Texas Young Lawyers Association, whose grant made this podcast possible.
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In 2019, the Houston Young Lawyers Association, a non-profit bar organization, and its President Samantha Torres created history by establishing the first-ever First Generation Attorneys Committee. In effort to amplify the voices and stories of First Gen Attorneys based in Houston, Texas, each episode of this podcast will feature a First Gen Attorney and their story, centered around a given prompt. HYLA and the First Generation Attorneys Committee sincerely thank our sponsor, the Texas Young Lawyers Association, whose grant made this podcast possible.
Zachary Caballero is a poet and trial lawyer at Padilla & Rodriguez, L.L.P., Co-Founder of the Stories of First Generation Attorneys Podcast, and he returns to the 2020-2021 bar year for the second year in a row as a Co-Chair of the First Generation Attorneys Committee. In this episode, Zachary shares his First Gen Story and talks about the strange, yet beautiful intersection of being a poet and a lawyer, his love for the poetry community, and how his family’s legacy as immigrants paved a path of gratitude for his journey into the law. You can follow Zachary on Twitter @cabbythepoet! Thanks for listening! Please direct all inquiries to hylafirstgen@gmail.com.
The Stories of First Generation Attorneys
In 2019, the Houston Young Lawyers Association, a non-profit bar organization, and its President Samantha Torres created history by establishing the first-ever First Generation Attorneys Committee. In effort to amplify the voices and stories of First Gen Attorneys based in Houston, Texas, each episode of this podcast will feature a First Gen Attorney and their story, centered around a given prompt. HYLA and the First Generation Attorneys Committee sincerely thank our sponsor, the Texas Young Lawyers Association, whose grant made this podcast possible.
