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Welcome Rohmah Javed as the new Legal Director of our Immigrant Justice Program!
We are very excited to announce Rohmah Javed as the new Legal Director of our Immigrant Justice Program! Our immigration team works hard… Read More

Amanda Shelton
Amanda Shelton is a Richmond, VA native and a US Navy Veteran. While in the Navy, Amanda served as a Career Counselor and Training Officer. While serving in this… Read More

Rohmah Javed
Rohmah Javed is an immigration attorney and advocate whose passion for immigrant and social justice is rooted in her life experiences as the daughter and… Read More

Hank Bostwick
Hank has been advocating for kids and youth facing juvenile justice and education access issues since he started practicing law in 2003. In 2008, after… Read More

Elizabeth Hernandez-Lopez
Elizabeth (Ely) Hernandez Lopez is originally from Tepic, Nayarit Mexico and as of October 2023 is a member of LAJC as an ACA Navigator- Health… Read More

Elizabeth Schmelzel
Elizabeth Schmelzel was raised in southern Illinois and moved to Washington, DC for college. She lived abroad for most of her 20s, learning about the… 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

Lauren King
Prior to joining the LAJC, Lauren worked as a Case Counseling Attorney at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless in Washington, D.C. In this… Read More

Emily Lopynski
Emily joined the Immigrant Justice Program in Fall 2022. Before joining the LAJC team, Emily clerked for the Virginia Court of Appeals and the Arlington… Read More