The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star has revealed she is studying to become a lawyer and plans to sit for the bar exam in 2022.
“I had to think long and hard about this,” Kardashian, who is 38 and did not attend university, told US Vogue magazine.
The mother-of-three will soon begin a four-year apprenticeship with a law firm in San Francisco, which under California law will enable her to qualify to sit for the bar exam.
The reality star and make-up mogul, whose late dad Robert Kardashian defended O.J. Simpson in his 1995 murder trial, said she was inspired to become a lawyer after she successfully campaigned the White House to grant clemency to American woman Alice Johnson, a nonviolent offender serving a life-sentence.
“The White House called me to advise to help change the system of clemency,” she told the magazine, “and I’m sitting in the Roosevelt Room with, like, a judge who had sentenced criminals and a lot of really powerful people, and I just sat there, like, ‘Oh, sh*t. I need to know more’.”
Kardashian, who is married to rapper Kanye West, said she has always cared about justice but had only recently taken it more seriously.
“I’ve always known my role, but I just felt like I wanted to be able to fight for people who have paid their dues to society,” she said.
“I just felt like the system could be so different, and I wanted to fight to fix it, and if I knew more, I could do more.”
After Kardashian, working with activist groups, convinced US President Donald Trump to release Alice Marie Johnson in June 2018, she has continued to stay involved in prison reform issues. She attended a session on clemency review at the White House last September and visited a California women’s jail in November to hear the prisoners’ stories
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