Student Profile
Loving a job and leaving it For Heather Parker, passion for her work lead to law school
Heather Parker, a first-year law student at Willamette University, decided she needed to go to law school last year during her daily commute. She was holding down two part-time jobs — one where she witnessed the power of government and one where she taught those without it — when she realized she needed to take a different path. For more than four years, Parker had walked from the pillared Alaska State Capitol, where she worked part-time as a legislative information assistant with Alaska Legislative Affairs, to the red clapboard-and-brick Southeast Regional Resource Center (SERRC), where she taught English as a second language and U.S. citizenship to adult students.
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