20th Annual Howard B. Eisenberg Do-Gooders’ Auction–An Interview with PILS Fellow Kelli Nagel
The 20th Annual Howard B. Eisenberg Do-Gooders’ Auction on behalf of the Law School’s Public Interest Law Society (PILS) will be held on February 15, 2013 at the Law School. Proceeds from the event go to support PILS Fellowships to enable Marquette law students to do public interest work in the summer. Kelli Nagel, a current law student, shares her experience here as a PILS Fellow.
Where did you work as a PILS Fellow?
This past summer, I worked in the Consular section of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City.
What kind of work did you do there?
In my role there, I had many diverse experiences. In the non-immigrant visa section, I helped process the over 2,000 individuals who visit the Embassy daily for visa interviews. I spent some time in the American Citizen Services section visiting U.S. citizens incarcerated in Mexico. And for the majority of my internship, I worked in the Fraud Prevention Unit conducting an investigation on the human trafficking of women and children between Tlaxcala, Mexico and various cities throughout the U.S. and Mexico.
How was the experience meaningful to you?
This experience was the fulfillment of a dream I had from when I studied abroad in Mexico as an undergraduate student in 2008. At that time, the U.S. Embassy came to visit American students at our university. One of the Foreign Service Officers told our group of students that the State Department was a great place to work, and I thought “I want to try that.”