She also hosts first-gen workshops through McGeorge’s Middle Eastern & South Asian Law Association to help other first-generation law students succeed. And she continues breaking glass ceilings in her new role as McGeorge’s flagship law review’s Editor-in-Chief.
Schersei is already making an impact at Pacific's McGeorge School of Law. She has helped pioneer McGeorge’s first Diversity and First Generation Bar Scholarship Program, which will provide financial aid to diverse and first generation students who need additional financial assistance to cover bar prep or living expenses while studying for the Bar Exam. You are just as worthy of the opportunities as someone else.” If English is not your first language, or if you have an accent, don’t let that hold you back. I am proud of the many languages I have mastered because they allow me to tackle legal issues in unique and creative ways. Many individuals at my law school do not know, but English is my third fluent language. “I came to McGeorge because it was the only law school where I saw people of color in ways that didn’t feel tokenized. I did it for all the little brown girls,” said Schersei. “When I applied to law school and eventually for the Editor-in-Chief position, I didn’t do it just for me. Her decision to go to law school was driven by her experiences growing up and a desire to help and fight for immigrants and underrepresented communities. Her family immigrated to the United States when she was a teenager. Schersei was born and raised in Germany. Her parents fled Afghanistan in the 1980s when the former Soviet Union invaded their home country. She is believed to be the first Muslim woman and woman of color to hold that position in the publication’s more than fifty year history. In keeping with her history of breaking barriers, Sofia Schersei, ’22, has been elected the next Editor-in-Chief of the University of the Pacific Law Review.
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