The 2022 Student Leadership in Fostering Community and Inclusiveness Award was presented earlier today to 3L Abby Akrong.
Established in 2018, the award, which comes with a $2,000 scholarship, celebrates a student who “goes above and beyond to foster our diverse, inclusive, supportive, and welcoming community.” Recipients are honored for their work in the previous year.
Akrong, a Louisville native and 2020 graduate of Centre College, was cited as a role model for collegiality, civility, and professionalism.
Nominators described her as “a role model for (your) peers” who is “clearly very involved in a number of activities that hone the skills required to be an excellent lawyer.”
Akrong has been involved with the Law School’s Black Law Students Association, moot court teams, the Indiana Law Journal, and the faculty appointments process. She is also the director of administration for the Inmate Legal Assistance Project.
“Abby is a remarkable example of the kind of well-rounded students we have here at the Maurer School of Law,” said Interim Dean Christiana Ochoa. “Not only does she excel in the classroom, but she gives so much of herself to the Indiana Law community and beyond. We’re so pleased to be able to recognize Abby with the Student Leadership Award.”
The award is presented by the Student Bar Association president during orientation for new law students to recognize the recipient’s leadership capabilities and to highlight them as someone our incoming students can look to as a role model.
Akrong spent the summer serving as a legal intern with the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy and hopes to pursue a career in public interest law when she graduates in May 2023.
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