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8 LWI Lives 1 (2021-2022)

handle is hein.journals/lwives8 and id is 1 raw text is: Legalr gL LWI LIVES LW Lives is a regular electronic publication of the Faces of LWI Committee, which explores and communicates the emerging identity of LWI and its members. We have in common the commitment to being the best legal writing professors that we can be. But we are multidimensional people with different strengths, interests, curi- osities, and gifts. By profiling individuals in our community, we hope to expand and develop our understanding of who we are and what we aspire to be. Page Rosa Kim: AWoman of the World By Abigail Perdue Almost fifty years ago, eight-year-old Rosa Kim embarked on 1,9-12 a life-altering journey. She traveled with her mother and three older sisters from their birthplace in Seoul, South Korea, near- ly seven thousand miles away to West Orange, New Jersey, a rittee 13 small suburb twenty miles outside New York City. They were meeting her father, a retired Air Force Colonel, who had immi- grated to the U.S. the year before to establish a better life for the family. Rosa still vividly remembers dragging her over- stuffed suitcase behind her through the busy airport and being shocked to see how dirty the streets of New York City looked. (Continued on page 2) Jennifer Spreng: A Life Focused on Real People By Wayne Schiess Jennifer Spreng is a writer, music lover, and teacher who loves to travel and is devoted to her students. Sounds like a legal-writing teacher! (Continued on page 5) Ursula Weigold: Accidentally Finding What You Love to Do By Desmund Wu Ursula Weigold has always been skeptical about people who have wanted to know about her five- or ten-year plan. So many of the best things that have happened in her life, from living in Yemen, to her first job out of law school, to teaching legal writing, to creating a legal writing program from the ground up, weren't carefully planned out. Instead, she simply accidentally happened upon many of them and made choices that led to new adventures and jobs that she has loved. (Continued on page 9)