ON DEMAND: Brown Bag Lunch Series: Legal Aid as Racial Justice Work

Class recorded June 5, 2024

This session will explore the intersection between legal services and racial justice. It will begin with a discussion of the role of racial justice in legal aid work historically and the evolution of that role, particularly during this recent period of racial reckoning. A panel of experts will then discuss how legal aid attorneys, law students, and pro bono attorneys can use the civil legal system to continue fighting to dismantle systemic racism.

Presented by:

Tyler Press Sutherland (https://www.publiclawcenter.org/about/staff/#tyler-press-sutherland), Chief Legal Programs Officer, Public Law Center (Moderator)

Tess Feldman, Staff Attorney & Immigration Law Project Manager, Los Angeles LGBT Center (Los Angeles LGBT Center - A Safe Welcoming Space for LGBTQ+)

Ritu Mahajan (Ritu Mahajan Estes - Public Counsel), Directing Attorney, Public Counsel

Jessica Mark, Supervising Attorney, Economic Justice Unit, Bay Area Legal Aid (Homepage | Bay Area Legal Aid)

Registration Fee: FREE

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