Gwendolyn Leachman ’11, a doctoral candidate in Berkeley Law’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, has won two recent honors. The National Science Foundation (NSF) issued a grant for her dissertation titled “Institutions and Dominance within Social Movements: How Legal Strategies Shape the Agendas of Movements for Social Change,” and she also received a UC Dissertation Year Fellowship. The NSF grant provides funds for dissertation-related expenses, and the UC grant provides living expenses. In 2009, Leachman won the national Law Students Association Graduate Paper Prize for “Who Frames the Message? Counter Movements and Public Perception of Social Movements’ Legal Agendas.”.