Melissa Castro Wyatt

She’s jumped from planes, searched for missing hikers and helped save lives. Now, this Virginia Beach native wants to pursue a UVA law degree.

Charlottesville civic leader Whitmore Merrick Jr. had his Second Amendment rights restored with help from UVA’s Decarceration and Community Reentry Clinic.

UVA Law’s Innocence Project looked into a murder conviction gained by a corrupt Norfolk cop, and helped exonerate a man who served 20 years in prison.

As a largely unsupervised youth who finally found a place to land with her grandparents, Elizabeth Harris began to think about other children who weren’t as lucky.