For the past six weeks, I’ve been interning with LAF’s Consumer Practice Group, providing free civil legal services to low-income people across Chicago and its suburbs. I’m so grateful to Equal Justice America (“EJA”) for funding my summer fellowship with LAF. EJA makes it possible for law students like me to accept public interest internships by providing funding for summer and post-grad fellowships. Often, students who want to take public interest positions over the summer are unable to afford the experience because they have to find external funding to support them, and internships like these demonstrate to many law students that they really do belong in the non-profit sector, despite the pay cut.