Napa Valley Register: "Napan Lomeli goes from battlefield to courtroom"
August 30, 2016 -- Bonifacio Lomeli, Class of 2019 and United States Army veteran, has been featured in the Napa Valley Register.
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Bonifacio Lomeli of Napa spent seven years in the Army working as a combat medic, helping fight for his country.
Today, he's working toward learning a different form of "combat" – the kind waged in courtrooms or at mediation table.
Thanks to the George and Gwendolyn Goodin Scholarship, a fund of Napa Valley Community Foundation, Lomeli is now a second-year law student at Pepperdine University School of Law.
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Lomeli said he would eventually like to go into conflict resolution or mediation, specifically helping veterans navigate the legal system.
He sees a "parallel" between his work helping soldiers as a medic and his work helping people with legal issues, he said. "It's fulfilling."
Lomeli spent part of this summer helping at-risk veterans in a mediation clinic in Ventura County.
Some of the soldiers come back with serious issues and "just to have someone with these same experience give them a hand, it's huge," he said. "If I can help, or give guidance, that's what I'm going to do."
Read more on the Napa Valley Register website.