2025 Samuel T. Gomez Award Recipient Sooyong Kwon

Sooyong Kwon is a second-year law student at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. As a Toll Public Interest Fellow, he plans to spend his career ensuring that everyone has adequate support systems to help them achieve their full potential. Before law school, Sooyong worked as a consultant at Yale’s Office of Strategic Analysis, an internal group that helps university administrators tackle complex and challenging problems. He holds his B.A. in Ethics, Politics and Economics from Yale University. At the law school, Sooyong serves as a Public Service Co-Chair for APALSA and a Co-Director for the Penn Law Immigrant Rights Project. He is currently externing with the ACLU-PA in the Immigrants’ Rights team.