Kele Stewart

Kele Stewart, past TATUCA Scholarship Grant Recipient, is a lawyer, professor, and child advocate. After attending Bishop Anstey High School in Trinidad and Tobago, she moved to New York where she earned a B.S. from Cornell University and a law degree from NYU Law School. She has diverse legal experience, having worked as a corporate litigator at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and White & Case, and a voting rights attorney at Brennan Center for Justice, before her current position as a Professor at University of Miami School of Law.

At Miami Law, Kele pursues her longstanding passion for children’s issues, teaching family and juvenile law. As co-director of the Children & Youth Law Clinic, she supervises law students in representing children and young adults in the foster care system. Kele co-founded the University of Miami site of First Star Academy, an innovative college preparation program for teenagers in foster care. During the 2011-2012 academic year, she was a Fulbright Scholar working on child protection policy in Trinidad and Tobago. From 2016 to 2021, she served in a leadership role as the Associate Dean for Experiential Education overseeing all of the law school’s practical skills courses.