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Does kindness have a place in a university classroom? At law school? In a courtroom? Heather Strack believes it does.

A dedication to community development has always been important to Heather, who has been an outstanding leader since she was an undergraduate at Dartmouth College. During her college days, she worked in Denver for the Rocky Mountain Survivors Center (a center for victims of torture and war trauma), and in New Hampshire for Amnesty International and Action Against Hunger, a multinational nonprofit dedicated to ending world hunger. Now a law student at the University of Colorado, she has continued to serve her community and has supplemented her studies with work as a legal intern at the Supreme Court of Ghana, as a legal intern for a Federal Court Magistrate Judge, and as a law clerk for a private attorney practicing criminal defense and civil rights cases.

In all she does, Heather seeks to view her environment through the lens of kindness—asking how she can represent the kindness movement and how she can encourage others to join it. She's come up with a few ideas, and she'll be sharing them here periodically. She doesn’t think the legal profession benefits from cut-throat competitiveness to the exclusion of kindness and encourages her peers to add a little kindness to their daily endeavors—in the classroom, at law school and in the courtroom.

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