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Social Justice And International Law

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Having grown up in a developing country, and having lived in multiple countries as an immigrant and a visible minority, I have seen and experienced varying degrees of inequality first hand. My experiences as an immigrant and visible minority have transformed me into an advocate of social justice and made me keenly aware of the complex issues facing immigrants. These experiences have given me the desire to pursue a legal education, with a career goal of becoming a lawyer specializing in labor and international law. I intend to utilize the knowledge gained in helping new immigrants in my adopted country, Canada, gain a foothold in the Canadian job market.
In the Philippines, the country where I lived the first 23 years of my life, …show more content…

As an undergraduate, I headed various marketing committees for university events; from quiz bees and film festivals to journalism workshops and literary contests. During my graduate school year, I wrote for the official MBA blog, I mentored future MBA students and I participated in an entrepreneurial competition where my team finished second.
Perhaps my most meaningful extra-curricular activity was my time as a writer and photographer for the University of Santo Tomas paper, The Varsitarian, where I wrote and published several articles and photographs each month during my 2-year stint. I have a skill for taking in vast amounts of information and distilling them, either oral or written, into something comprehensible to most people. As previously mentioned, honoring gifts by contributing to society is a criterion by which I measure success; I was therefore thrilled to contribute to public knowledge with my skill in writing.
Upon graduation from Santo Tomas, I was blessed to have begun a promising career in marketing. As a brand supervisor for CDO Foodsphere Inc., one of the Philippines’ largest consumer goods companies, I handled the brand development and marketing of several brands and was in charge of a $1.2M budget. From the time I took over my brands until I left, each of my brands experienced at least a 25% sales

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