Empower Serena Haugland's Journey to Law School

Hello! My name is Serena Haugland, I am a 31 year old trans woman who wants to go to law school with dreams of becoming a public interest attorney who focuses on LGBT rights. My life was miserable for a long time before I went through gender transitioning, and it is only through the kindness of others that I managed to push myself to get to that step, and my entire emphasis on becoming a lawyer is to be able to try and help others and give other people hope the same way that those people did me.

I worked hard on studying for the LSAT and managed to get a 170, which put me in the top 5-10% of test-takers in a year, and through the most stressful 6 months of my life I participated in the second most competitive law school application cycle process in the last 20 years, and managed to get a scholarship that covers roughly 75% of my tuition from a respected and relatively prestigious law school.

However, my mother is deeply controlling and abusive, and has basically indicated, after taking all my ability to make my own financial choices from me, that she will be unwilling to support me moving out at all, let alone going to law school. My main options are thus to potentially give up on my dream and basically being able to be independent period at least in the remotely short term, or to try and get funding another way. I could thus use any help that anybody is willing to offer.

All the money I receive will be siphoned into payments for deposits, moving out expenses, and other law school-related expenses. I understand that now can be a difficult time for a lot of people financially, and it is entirely understandable if in these conditions you are unable to do anything, or to simply not be interested. However if you are, I deeply appreciate and thank you for your consideration and time, and as cliche as it is, any penny really does help.

Regards,

Serena Haugland