DOWNTOWN — The Kings County Courts Izetta Johnson Internship Empowerment Program — formerly the Summer Youth Employment Program — recently graduated yet another class of eager and inquisitive young people, adding to the over 1,500 interns that have come through the Kings County Courts over the past 30-plus years.
Intern Tooba Shahid said that her future plan is to be an international lawyer. Brooklyn Eagle photos by Wayne Daren Schneiderman
The ceremony was held for approximately 50 high school and college students at Kings County Supreme Court, Criminal Term, at 320 Jay Street, the afternoon of Aug. 6.
The six-week internship program, which ran through Aug. 8, exposed the interns, ranging in age from 16 to 24, to the vast professional possibilities the court system has to offer, in a