Esteemed English alums will lead a pre-law panel for students Sept. 13

The English Student Association and Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society, invite majors and non-majors to join them for a Pre-Law panel with two distinguished Wake Forest English alumni, Aja Brooks and Will Perry, on Monday, September 13, at 7 p.m. on Zoom.

Wake Forest students may email english@wfu.edu to register.

Aja Brooks graduated from Wake Forest in 2005, with degrees in English and Spanish. She graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2008. She started off as a public defender representing indigent persons charged with crimes, and then she worked as the pro bono coordinator for a civil legal service organization, recruiting attorneys to help low-income people for free. She is currently the Director of the Center for Self-Help and Dispute Resolution, Second Judicial District Court, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They help people who are representing themselves navigate the court system. 

Will Perry graduated from Wake Forest in 2004 with a BA in English, and went on to earn an MA in Secondary Education (WFU 2005). He taught eighth grade English in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee for three years, and started law school at the University of Tennessee in 2008. As a partner at Butler Snow LLP, he focused on commercial and appellate litigation. In the summer of 2021, he received a judicial appointment to serve on the 30th Judicial District Chancery Court in Tennessee.