OVERCOMING BIAS IN THE LEGAL PROFESSION
In 2005, Catharine Arrowood, Partner at Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein LLP, had the opportunity to meet Doras Chirwa, CARE’s HIV/AIDS program specialist in Zambia. Doras’ family had been devastated by AIDS—she had lost a sister and two brothers to the disease—and she described the social taint that HIV/AIDS had brought to their children. Catharine was especially surprised to learn that, in Zambia, when a father dies, his family can take control of all assets, leaving the widow and children to fend for themselves. Catharine praises those involved in CARE who, despite—or perhaps because of—their personal ...