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Supporting Police-Free Schools in Alexandria
Today LAJC sent a letter to the Alexandria (Va) City Council in support of student demands for a police-free Alexandria City Public School system. Youth advocates at our longtime partner organization, Tenants and Workers United, have petitioned the City Council for a budget amendment that would divest nearly $800,000 from Alexandria’s School Resource Officer (SRO) program […]
Read moreClass Action Lawsuit – VA Unemployment Insurance
Learn more about the lawsuit and how you can take action here Class Action Lawsuit Filed to Fix Historic Failures by Virginia’s Unemployment Insurance System Legal Aid groups and pro bono partners charge the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) with violating the rights of Virginians who have been cut off benefits without process, or who face […]
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Jess Gabbay
Jess joined Legal Aid Justice Center as the Executive Assistant in 2021. She joined the LAJC team with over ten years of administrative and management experience and has been an active member of the Charlottesville community since moving here in 2015. Jess received her B.S. in Marketing and Management from the University of Mary Washington.
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June Yang
June Yang joined the Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC) in February 2021. As Senior Development Officer—Foundations and Institutional Philanthropy, she brings more than a decade of experience in grantwriting and nonprofit resource development across a wide range of sectors and settings, most recently in Washington, D.C. Prior to LAJC, June directed fundraising strategy as Director […]
Read moreLAJC Gift Acceptance Policy
Fundraising & Racial Justice The Legal Aid Justice Center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty. Because we live in a racially structured society that causes racial inequities across systems, we believe we cannot effectively address poverty without addressing race. And because poverty is a racial justice issue, it follows that wealth is a racial justice […]
Read moreBig Wins – LAJC at the 2021 Legislative Session
The 2021 General Assembly session is wrapping up, and all the bills and budget amendments that passed the Virginia House and Senate are on their way to the Governor to be signed into law. Successfully advocating for legislation at the GA is a tough job in the best of circumstances, but during a pandemic, with […]
Read moreTransformative Record Sealing Law Passes
download pdf version here Today, Virginians are one step away from a major victory: criminal record sealing that is automatic, equitable, free, and far reaching. Bills (SB1339, HB2113) that will greatly expand and improve the process of sealing criminal records have successfully passed both houses and are awaiting Governor Northam’s signature. Criminal records are […]
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Cecilia Hernandez
Cecilia came to LAJC in September 2020. Originally from Mexico, Cecilia knows first-hand what it is to lack worker protections, and since her arrival to Eastern Shore in 2007, she has been engaged in her community. She volunteered with SPARK (Shore People Advancing Readiness for Knowledge), the objective of which was for parents to spend […]
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