Rick Mula is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The aim of Rick’s fellowship project is to reduce the discrimination that LGBT youth living in Tennessee and Alabama experience in the education, child welfare and juvenile justice systems. His fellowship is sponsored by the Mansfield Family Foundation.
Rick graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 2015 where he received a graduate certificate in gender, sexuality and women’s studies. Rick was also awarded the Dean Jefferson B. Fordham Human Rights Award and the Blank Rome Alvin Ackerman Prize for the most consistent progress in his program. While in law school, Rick interned at Lambda Legal, served as a Holley Law Fellow at the National LGBTQ+ Task Force and interned at the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. Prior to law school, Rick graduated summa cum laude from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts in Japanese language and world business. Rick is a native of Kingsport, Tennessee.
