My name is Shannon Garcia I'm 3L
at Lewis and Clark I lived in Seattle
for about 10 years before moving to
Oregon to
attend law school and some of my fears
going into law school had to do with the
fact that I'm 1 of just a few
people in my family to graduate from
law school
I'm the first person to go to law school
in my family
so I didn't feel like I had a lot of 
academic mentor to look up to or came
from
I didn't come from a culture of law school
my family's predominantly
low-income
and I had horrible LSAT scores I got
accepted off of the 
wait list so my big fear going into
law school with all my gosh
fraud I'm going to fail horribly or
people are gonna discover me and boot me
out because
I don't belong here and so when I
attended OLIO and met
judges district attorney defense
attorneys all people who had a similar
story that said yeah of my gosh that's sounds horrible or
I got accepted off the wait list too and I
thought to myself okay
so these people did it maybe I can do
it too
and Here I am almost three years later
doing it
but the biggest thing that I took
from OLIO is the mentorship
relationships that I was able to create
and not just networking relationships
but
people that I can call and say hey im having super bad day I don't know what to do.
meet me, give me a hug and tell me
wonderful thing and pick me up and
push me on so
that is the biggest takeaway that
I've had from OLIO and the biggest
reason
I would recommend anyone who is able to
come to come
thank you
