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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 powers and control borders exert over human freedom. She earned a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics before attending University of Texas School of Law, where she focused […]
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Catherine Cone
Catherine Cone oversees the Housing and Consumer Justice Program at LAJC. Trained as a civil rights attorney, she spent nearly nine years at the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs (WLC) supervising a team of attorneys, legal support staff, and an advocate, as well as managing an active docket of individual and class […]
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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. in Biology and a B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin. She received an M.A. in History and her law degree from the University of Virginia, where […]
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