Jose Barajas: I Am Barnes & Thornburg

I AM...

• A proud L.A.-born and raised first-generation Chicano, born to immigrant parents from Mexico
• A member of Levitt & Quinn’s Leadership Council, a nonprofit family law firm serving working families in L.A.’s under-served communities
• The first in my extended family to have earned an advanced degree, and the first attorney
• A hopeless automotive aficionado, with a particular affinity for older Chevrolet Corvette roadsters
• Afflicted with a case of wanderlust, having visited 13 countries scattered across three continents
• The grateful beneficiary and product of multiple mentorship and educational/professional enrichment programs, beginning at an early age
• A former member of the Santa Monica High School cross-country team turned hiker who enjoys wandering the Santa Monica Mountains
• Still in regular contact with a group of international friends I made while studying abroad in Sweden and Denmark in 2011 and 2015 respectively
• A member of a loyal University of California family, with my two younger sisters and I each earning our degrees from the UC system
• Fortunate to have retained my native fluency in Spanish

This profile appeared in the September 2020 edition of I Am Barnes & Thornburg.

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