{"id":273815,"date":"2026-04-18T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273815\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:04:09","slug":"chapter-of-the-year-berkeleys-native-american-law-students-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/273815\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter of the Year: Berkeley\u2019s Native American Law Students Association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Native American Law Students Association (NNALSA) named Berkeley Law its local chapter of the year at the Federal Bar Association\u2019s recent Federal Indian Law Conference. The award recognizes a local chapter that demonstrates strong leadership, consistent programming, community engagement, and meaningful support for Indigenous law students and communities. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nalsaberkeley.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Law\u2019s chapter<\/a> provides robust academic, professional, and social programming, works closely with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.berkeley.edu\/research\/center-for-indigenous-law-and-justice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Indigenous Law &amp; Justice<\/a>, and contributes meaningful advocacy. University of Wisconsin law student and NNALSA Area 4 Representative Erica Mendez said its students go \u201cabove and beyond for both its members and the broader community\u201d and \u201ccontinuously answer the call when the California Native community needs support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Native American Law Students Association (NNALSA) named Berkeley Law its local chapter of the year at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-273815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}