Participating students reap educational benefits such as active, participatory learning and enhanced reading and writing skills.  The program also strives to deepen the students’ connection to their communities through interviews with parents, grandparents, church elders, and other adults involved directly in their lives.   

Volunteer attorneys, paralegals, law students, and Street Law, Inc. staff work with the students in preparatory sessions to explore the lives and accomplishments of their legends and also provide opportunities for further positive interaction with adults.  

Breakfast with a Legend is implemented at no cost to the participating schools and does not add to the workload of participating teachers.  Since its inception in the spring of 2007, over 200 Washington, DC, students have participated in the program.

Volunteer

If you are a D.C. area attorney, paralegal, judge, police officer, or community leader and are interested in serving as a volunteer or resource person for this or other D.C. area Street Law programs, please contact Deborah Foster.

2008 Participants

J.C. Nalle Elementary School (5th graders)

The Legends

• The Honorable Vanessa Hall, administrative judge, Office of Hearings and Appeals-Office of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• The Honorable Anita Josey-Herring, presiding judge, family court, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• The Honorable José López, presiding judge, tax and probate division, Superior Court of the District of Columbia

Volunteers

Attorneys and paralegals from the Washington office of King & Spalding LLP

KIPP DC: Key Academy (8th graders)

The Legends

• The Honorable Karen Howze, magistrate judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
• Cathy Lanier, D.C. chief of police 
• Linda Singer, former attorney general of the District of Columbia

Volunteers

Attorneys and paralegals from the Washington office of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.

Seaton Elementary School (5th and 6th graders)

The Legend

• The Honorable Eugene Hamilton, senior judge and former chief judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia

Volunteers

Attorneys and paralegals from Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive’s legal department