Hamstrung by student loans and dismayed at her meagre prospects for repaying them,Kimberley Chongyon Motley left the long hours and low pay of the Milwaukee public defender's office in 2008 for the long -short promise of Afghanistan.
"I came here for the money,just like half the people here," she says in Motley's Law, a documentary about her unusual legal career that was broadcast on Al-Jazeera America last month. Before arriving here, "I couldn't find Afghanistan on the map.