McKissick served as the 2021–2022 OutLaws president and was the recipient of the 2021 Manne Prize at the 8th Annual Stanley M. Grossman Innovators Invitational at the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship.
While pursuing a degree in psychology and gender and women’s studies at Bowdoin College, Erin McKissick ’23 spent a semester at Smith College, where she took a gender and law course; it left the idea of a law career lingering in her mind. “I began to understand the difference between a career centered on research and writing about legal issues versus what I perceived as the more direct problem-solving role of a lawyer. I also saw how topics I cared about and felt intuitively drawn to, like gender studies, are implicated in our legal system in a way that fascinated and, at times, frustrated me,” she says.
McKissick’s Columbia Law School journey didn’t begin as expected—she spent most of her 1L year on Zoom due to the COVID-19 pandemic—but she took full advantage of the Law School’s coursework and programs. Now, she is in her final year after serving as president of OutLaws during the 2021–2022 academic year, winning the 2021 Manne Prize at the 8th Annual Stanley M. Grossman Innovators Invitational at the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship at Brooklyn Law School, and externing for the New York Attorney General’s Labor Bureau. She also developed an interest in gender justice and LGBTQ+ rights, Title VII and Title IX discrimination work, and employment law—an...
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