David Alan Johnson L'25, Sadie Scholar
Meet our Sadie Scholar Class of 2025! David Alan Johnson L'25, from Brownsville, Tennessee, graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee with a degree in Politics and minor in Economics. He earned a Master’s in Public Policy at the University of Chicago. His previous academic studies range from microfinance and social entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates and Bangladesh; researching University of the South's ties to slavery (Roberson Project); and earning a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship for a year-long project exploring how countries deal with past human rights abuses in Northern Ireland, Germany, Rwanda, and South Africa.
As he pursues a career at the intersection of international law and public policy, he gives gratitude and deference to Dr. Alexander for her tenacity in the face of adversity at Penn and beyond, Black alumni who advocated for this trailblazing program, and his ancestors who toiled in the Jim Crow South imagining what life could be for him.
About The Dr. Sadie T. M. Alexander Scholarship
As part of our commitment to advancing equity and inclusion, the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School established the Dr. Sadie T. M. Alexander Scholarship in February of 2021; the first Sadie Scholars joined the Law School the following fall. Five full scholarships are awarded annually to applicants who demonstrate the greatest potential to honor Dr. Alexander’s legacy of cross-disciplinary academic achievement and professional success, and who embody the pathbreaking spirit and resilience evident in Dr. Alexander’s many accomplishments. Learn more: https://www.law.upenn.edu/inclusion/a...
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