Meet the Sadie Scholar Class of 2025! Virginia Richards L'25 is passionate about the legal intersections of race, class, and gender in the United States. Originally from Providence, Rhode Island, she graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Law, History, & Society and Political Science with minors in African American & Diaspora Studies and Gender & Sexuality Studies. Prior to joining Penn Carey Law, Virginia's advocacy work included fighting for broad institutional support for low-income students at Vanderbilt, working with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Black women student survivors of sexual harassment to hold the University accountable for failing to investigate tenured professors facing allegations of sexual misconduct, and organizing clothing drives for low-income students. Virginia is a former SEO Law Fellow at Cooley LLP in Boston, where she engaged in both litigation and corporate legal work. She will return to Cooley Boston for her 1L summer as a Diversity Fellow. She is proud of being a part of a long legacy of Black students at Penn Carey Law fighting for the existence of the Dr. Sadie T.M. Alexander scholarship.

About The Dr. Sadie T. M. Alexander Scholarship
As part of our commitment to advancing equity and inclusion, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School established the Dr. Sadie T. M. Alexander Scholarship in February of 2021; the first Sadie Scholars joined the Law School the following fall. Five full scholarships are awarded annually to applicants who demonstrate the greatest potential to honor Dr. Alexander’s legacy of cross-disciplinary academic achievement and professional success, and who embody the pathbreaking spirit and resilience evident in Dr. Alexander’s many accomplishments.

Learn more: www.law.upenn.edu/inclusion/access/scholarships/

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