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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
Emily Smith
Emily joined LAJC in June 2022. Prior to working at LAJC, she worked for the Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia for three years. There,… Read More
Majesta-Doré Legnini
Majesta-Doré joined LAJC in 2022 as an Equal Justice Works Fellow in the Economic Justice Program, focusing on health justice in Richmond and… Read More
Robert Wadden
Robert is committed to cultivating an open presence through mindfulness and direct action spanning 30 years as a union leader, international youth facilitator, foster care… Read More
Marissa Baer
Marissa joined Legal Aid Justice Center’s Virginia Justice Project for Farm and Immigrant Workers as a workers’ rights attorney in December 2021. She attended the… Read More
Anna Kurien
Anna Kurien worked for over a decade as a Public Defender in Atlanta where she represented poor people charged with felonies at trial and on… Read More
