Kim Ricardo

Kim D. Ricardo ‘99, was awarded Inaugural Lucy Sprague Professorship In Public Interest last month. Ricardo’s personal and professional commitment to deepening society’s collective understanding of how group-based differences such as race, gender, and class impact the unequal distribution of resources, paralleled with her mission to advance social justice causes and uplift the voices of marginalized groups through her volunteer work made her eligible to serve in the endowed professorship. “As the inaugural Lucy Sprague Professor in Public Interest, I will work towards expanding the meaning of public interest and public service,” Ricardo said. “When students ask, ‘How can I use my law degree?,’ I want them to consider how their individual aspirations cohere with the forging of a more robust public good because the legal profession, after all, is a service profession.”