PENN LAW — In the innovative and interdisciplinary course “Leading Social Change,” University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School students identify the “One Big Thing” that they would like to change about the world. Over the semester, Lecturers in Law Benjamin Jealous and Dr. Ariel Schwartz help them to create a plan to achieve their goal. “I have spent a lot of time listening to litigators who are frustrated by their inability to change the world as fast as they had hoped,” said Jealous, who is the president of People For the American Way and the former President and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). “One of the gifts we try to give students in this class is an understanding of who they are, what big change they really want to see in the world, and what options they have for achieving that change beyond litigation so that, even if they become litigators, they are more clear about what they are trying to achieve and more grounded as a leader in what it’s really going to take from them, as a human, to keep showing up and making that change happen.” When Jocelyn Walcott L’22, GEd’22 enrolled in the course, her One Big Thing reflected an interdisciplinary focus in both law and education policy: to pass an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that guarantees excellent public education.