Korin Jones
Korin Jones is from Oakland, California and a 2L at Southern University Law Center. Korin graduated from Hampton University Cum Laude with a major in political science and minor in criminal justice. She has a strong passion in criminal justice reform as she is a former intern inside of San Quentin Prison and taught inmates how to read and write to obtain their high school diploma. Currently on SULC’s campus she is a teacher's assistant for the Board of Student Advisors, junior editor for the Journal of Race, Gender, and Poverty, member of criminal law society, Black Lawyers Student Association and Women in Law. Korin is also the first-place winner for the Thurgood Marshall Hennessey Fellowship Pitch Contest and recipient of both the Timothy L. Spears Scholarship and the United States District Court Middle District of Louisiana Judges Memorial Annual Scholarship. Additionally, she is currently a law clerk for Judge Johnson- Rose at the 19th Judicial District Court. This upcoming summer Korin will be interning with the Innocence Project in Atlanta, Georgia.