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T AM DEEPLY GRATEFUL for the opportunity to be part of this symposium to honor and remember my friend Trina Grillo. Trina was an extraordinary human being and a rare and wonderful teacher. I miss her. I miss her brilliant mind, her wondrous laughter, and her careful love. I miss her courageous spirit and the feel of her shoulder next to mine in the day-today struggle to make this a more just world. Trina always required that her friends speak the truth to her as best we could. Because I know her spirit is with us today, I will try to speak as plainly as I can about diversity in legal education, the meaning of affirmative action, and the ongoing fight for justice to which she committed her life.

I began my career as a law teacher at the University of San Francisco in 1974.1 was one of four new professors hired by USF that year. Three of us, Stephanie Wildman, David Garcia, and I, did not look like who our students expected …