Parsons Dwight Law Scholarships for Descendants of Enslavement in Georgia

Number of Awards: 10 scholarships

Geographic Scope: Georgia (family connection to enslavement in Georgia required)

Focus Areas:

• Legal education
• Law school funding
• Reparations and racial justice

Eligibility:

• African American law school students
• Family connection to enslavement in Georgia
• Attending or about to attend law school

Program Description:
Scholarship established in honor of Katherine "Katie" Parsons Dwight, whose great-great-grandfather George Parsons was a prominent cotton merchant in Savannah before and during the Civil War. Dwight received money from a Parsons family trust and was inspired to establish scholarships for descendants of the enslaved in Georgia attending law school. Dwight is a Yale University graduate (History major) who worked as a death penalty investigator, pursued sustainable agriculture, and earned her J.D. from UC Davis. She has worked in veterans benefits law and immigration law, and co-founded Herd & Flock Animal Sanctuary.

Past Recipients:

• Alan Alford, University of Tennessee Law
• Nia Anderson, Howard University Law
• Gabrielle Battle, Harvard Law
• Kai Bondje-Jackson, Howard Law
• Ryan Sears, Yale Law
• Travis Harper, Harvard Law
• Déja Daniel, Emory Law
• Naya Welcher, Columbia Law
• Kourtney Lacy, University of Georgia Law
• Reauna Talton, Emory Law

Contact Information:

• The Quarterman & Keller Foundation, Inc.
• 100 Bull Street, Suite 200
• Savannah, GA 31401
• info@reparationsproject.org