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Maria Prieto
Maria is Venezuelan immigrant, who arrived in the United States at the age of 14. She is recently graduating from the illustrious Virginia State University… Read More
Governor Youngkin’s Veto Denies Minimum Wage Protections for Virginia’s Farmworkers
HB157 would have corrected a vestige of the Jim Crow Era and protected some of our most vulnerable workers RICHMOND, VA – Today, during National… Read More
LAJC Immigration Work Spotlight
Today, we want to highlight the recent efforts of our Immigrant Justice Program. The Immigrant Justice Program advocates alongside immigrant communities to end mass detention… Read More
Organizing School at LAJC
Last week, we joined with other members of the Richmond Transparency and Accountability Project (RTAP) to host their first “Organizing School,” a place for community… Read More
“Virginians to State Leaders: Deliver Justice on Court Debt” Press Conference
Richmond, VA—Virginians with lived experience; elected officials including Delegates Price, Cousins, Jones, and Hernandez; Senator Williams-Graves; and advocates from the Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC),… Read More

Lauren McGarry
Lauren worked as a Public Defender in her hometown of Martinsville, Virginia, for approximately 6 years before joining the Legal Aid Justice Center. As a… Read More

Ruby Cherian
Ruby Cherian joined LAJC in 2023 as an Equal Justice America Fellow. She works in the Civil Rights & Racial Justice Program. She received a B.S.A. Read More

Daniela Tejero
Daniela (Dani) Tejero is a Health Navigator/Paralegal at the Richmond office. She is a Spanish speaker, originally from Chile who first came to the United… Read More

Challenging employer abuses
In 2019, our team helped 17 workers—victims of labor trafficking, violations of overtime laws, and breaches of their H-2B migrant visa contracts—file a lawsuit against… Read More

Organizing victory for tenants in Richmond
In the fall of 2019, LAJC organizers and partners helped persuade the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority (RRHA) to enact a moratorium on rent-related evictions… Read More