The plaza in front of Rutgers Law School in Newark was dedicated as Elizabeth Blume-Silverstein Plaza during a ribbon-cutting ceremony honoring one of New Jersey’s pioneering attorneys. 

Bonnie Goldman’s journey to a law degree was decades in the making and that’s what makes it so powerful. 

Born in Bamako, Mali, and raised in the Bronx, Aminata Diallo’s journey to graduating from Rutgers Law in Camden this May reflects a life shaped by determination, family, culture, and a drive to forge her own path where none existed before.