The Life Experiences That Made Justice Sonia Sotomayor the Badass She Is Today

Sotomayor was valedictorian of her class in high school and then went on to graduate summa cum laude at Princeton University. There, she cofounded the Latino Student Organization and was cochairman of the Puerto Rican activist group Acción Puertorriqueña, which filed a complaint against the university's administration for discriminating against Puerto Ricans, charging the school with "an institutional pattern of discrimination."