The goal of my project is to protect parental rights and to reduce the trauma for children whose parents are, without warning, taken away by immigration, detained and possibly deported.  We will serve immigrant families in rural poor communities in the greater Sacramento region by helping parents understand their rights and legal options; help them develop plans for the care of their children in the event they are separated; and draft legal documents, (e.  g.  

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Kevin Keenan’s project seeks to ensure that young people in Virginia’s juvenile corrections centers receive the services necessary for successful rehabilitation and community reentry.  The JustChildren Program provides a continuum of legal services to vulnerable young people in Virginia.  Kevin's host organization, the Legal Aid Justice Center, has been providing legal services to the poor in central Virginia since 1967.  

Marcelin Keever works on the Clean Air Accountability Project at Our Children's Earth Foundation(OCE) in San Francisco, California.  Her project seeks to (1) improve compliance with major air pollution permit provisions by assuring proper compliance reporting at major facilities and stricter enforcement of permit provisions through oversight, investigation and litigation; and (2) create a manual on the major air pollution permitting and appeals process to be used by clean air practitioners and communities throughout the country.  OCE was founded with the goal of protecting the public from the harmful effects of air pollution through a combined strategy of enforcement, education programs, and advocacy initiatives.  

I am an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Fellow working in Public Counsel's Homelessness Prevention Project.  I oversee the General Relief Advocacy Project, a legal advocacy program taking place in various offices of the L.  A.  

Cormac is an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Attorney at the Volunteer Legal Services Program of the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF).  He is involved in a number of programs including a weekly Landlord/Tenant Courthouse/Eviction Defense Project, and a free, full service Legal Advice and Referral Clinic for low income and homeless populations.  He coordinates these programs, and recruits attorney and law student volunteers for these initiatives and other VLSP projects, including a poverty simulation.  

I'm assisting victims of domestic violence and victims of human trafficking to obtain legal status in the Unitd States so they will be able to put the bad memories behind and build up a new life.   .  

Victoria is in her second year co-administering The Law Students in Action Project (LSAP) with fellow Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Attorneys Elisabeth Kingsbury and Natalie Pincus.  LSAP seeks to provide pro bono opportunities for law students with the various public interest law firms within the Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc.  service area.  

Elisabeth administers the Law Students in Action Project (LSAP) at Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc.  with fellow Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Attorneys Victoria King and Natalie Pincus.  LSAP aims to increase the delivery of legal services to underserved communities and, simultaneously, encourage the next generation of attorneys to pursue public interest or pro bono work.  

My project is two-fold.  First, I provide free legal assistance to 10 public charter schools in the city.  Additionally, I assist in the recruitment, training and support of school leaders launching new, high-performing public charter schools in the city.  

Transgender Californians face systemic and pervasive discrimination and are underrepresented in low-income populations.  Therefore there is a disproportionate need for access to legal and social services.  My project will provide legal services to low-income transgender Californians, decrease barriers to the economic self-sufficiency of CA's transgender community by advocating for the inclusion of transgender people in social services, and increase the legal community’s capacity to serve low income transgender clients.  

Rachel Kleinberg works in the Children's Rights Project at Public Counsel Law Center with foster youth who are emancipating from the foster care system.  Youth who leave foster care only upon reaching the "age of majority" have extremely high rates of poverty, homelessness and incarceration.  In addition, 50 percent will never finish high school.  

Rachael Knight is the legal director of the Family Advocacy Program, a medical-legal collaborative of the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County and the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford.  Through multi-disciplinary collaboration between medical professionals and patient families, the Family Advocacy Program addresses health disparities for low-income children by using legal advocacy to remove non-medical barriers to children’s health, educating medical providers about patient families’ legal rights and developing a legal services model in which attorneys and physicians work together to advocate for systemic change.  Many structural and logistical barriers stand in the way of families’ receipt of legal services.  

The Elder Exploitation and Abuse Project meets the needs of elder abuse victims by providing direct legal representation to elderly victims of abuse (age 60 or above) in seeking Orders of Protection against their abuser.  When their abuser is a live-in abuser, and the abuse does not rise to the level appropriate to warrant an Order of Protection, legal representation is also offered in the eviction process.  Furthermore, outreach and education events on elder rights are conducted in the community to empower elder abuse victims to enforce their rights.  

Paula Knudsen’s fellowship project, Preventing Homelessness by Providing Holistic Legal Services, was housed at MidPenn Legal Services.  The project name may be protracted, but the underlying purpose was simple: Paula helped homeless individuals navigate the civil legal system.  In the first year of her project, Paula was involved in a wide variety of cases, ranging from disability benefits to mortgage foreclosure.  

Ramey Ko works with the Housing Group of Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid in Austin, Texas.  His project provides legal assistance and outreach to low-income women throughout South and Central Texas facing adverse housing consequences as a result of domestic violence.  In many U.  

Julie is an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Attorney with the Pro Bono Project (PBP) in New Orleans, Louisiana.  She assists in the formation of a bankruptcy and debtor services clinic to address the anticipated needs of the community and surrounding areas in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina.  Legal aid services and pro bono programs predict that bankruptcy and debtor relief services will be one of the most in-demand legal services for quite some time.  

Cheryl Kreisher’s goal was to expand the resources available to battered women charged with crimes related to their abuse, especially during the pre-trial and post-conviction stages.  Jails and prisons across the United States confine an ever-growing number of women, many of whom are there as a direct or indirect result of abuse they experienced at the hands of their intimate partner.  For the past 14 years, the National Clearinghouse has worked to increase justice for battered women charged with crimes and for incarcerated battered women by providing resources, technical assistance and other support to battered women defendants and their defense teams.  

Kirsten is an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Attorney completing her second year of service at the Public Law Center (PLC) in Santa Ana, Calif.  She practices immigration law, coordinates PLC's Family Advocates Community Clinic and works to develop a strong law student volunteer base at PLC.  Through her work in immigration, Kirsten assists: victims of human trafficking; victims of domestic violence; victims of serious crimes; unaccompanied minors who have been abused, abandoned or neglected by their parents; and individuals seeking HIV waivers.  

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Gowri Krishna works with the Community Development Project (CDP) at the Urban Justice Center in New York City.  The CDP provides legal, technical and research-based assistance to grassroots organizations from low-income neighborhoods and communities of color throughout New York City.  Gowri's project focuses on providing transactional legal services (e.  

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Runako Kumbula works for the Harmonization Project at Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch in Washington, DC.  The term "harmonization" describes a process in which various industries around the world synchronize their product standards and regulatory policies in an effort to promote globalization.  Runako tracks the international harmonization efforts taking place and analyzes whether these revised standards threaten environmental protection, consumer safety, economic justice and democratic accountable governance.  

To serve Chicago's large but often isolated Asian immigrant communities, Cleo Kung created the Asian Immigrant Outreach Program.  In the last decade, Illinois' Asian population has grown by fifty-three percent.  Many of these new arrivals are impoverished immigrants prevented by linguistic and cultural barriers from seeking needed legal aid.  

I work with the Domestic Violence Project (DVP) at the Urban Justice Center, which is committed to supporting and advocating for domestic violence survivors.  In line with the DVP's holistic approach, my project will address survivors’ housing needs along with other legal issues they face.  I will inform survivors of their housing rights, offer direct representation to those facing housing discrimination, and engage the community through outreach and advocacy efforts to ensure that the VAWA 2005's housing provisions and NY laws are implemented.  

My project focuses on providing direct Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) assistance to nonprofit organizations and systematically analyzing the most pressing FOIA needs of the nonprofit community to strategically litigate FOIA cases.  Coordinating these activities through a newly-created Public Interest FOIA Clinic at PCLG and using a web-based interactive feedback tool, I help nonprofit organizations realize their goals in assisting underserved communities.  Visit the Clinic's website at www.