Scholar Spotlight: Donovan Hicks

Meet 🤝 Donovan Hicks, PracticePro Scholar-Stanford Law, Class of 2022.

Question: Where are you working this summer?

Donovan: ACLU (National) Racial Justice Project.

Question: What practice area are you interested in?

Donovan: Criminal, Employment, and Civil Rights Law.

Question: What would you like for us to highlight about your prior work experience?

Donovan: I worked as a Research Associate concentrating on property at the Center for American Progress and as a Policy Analyst at the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality.

Question: What inspired you to pursue a legal career?

Donovan: While in college, I worked at South Carolina Legal Services -- a nonprofit legal aid firm for the poor -- for four years. Every week those attorneys were heroes for their clients, managing tough case loads yet never losing their empathy. I wanted to do the same.

Question: What do you like to do for fun?

Donovan: I love to watch tennis, especially Serena Williams and her march toward a record-breaking 24th Grand Slam title.

Question: What’s next on your bucket list?

Donovan: I think Brazil may be calling post-COVID-19.