Gregory Alan Jackson Jr.
Host: The Sustainable Economies Law Center
Sponsor: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Doug equipped community-based organizations and low-income entrepreneurs with legal tools and strategies to capitalize on planned transit investment in order to enhance economic opportunities in Los Angeles’ low-income communities.
An unprecedented expansion of the regional transportation system is fundamentally changing the urban landscape of Los Angeles. As planning and investment in new transit-oriented development intensifies, the impacts are being felt most acutely in the low-income neighborhoods that surround many of the city’s current and future transit corridors. This new investment could create opportunities for economic mobility in neighborhoods facing high levels of poverty and unemployment. But without meaningful input and participation, irreversible community destabilization and displacement could result instead. This project provides legal advocacy and policy support to community groups and low-income entrepreneurs working to create a sustainable framework for inclusive economic growth.
During their Fellowship, Doug has:
Host: The Sustainable Economies Law Center
Sponsor: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Host: Urban Justice Center
Sponsor: Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Host: Pro Bono Partnership
Sponsor: Hogan Lovells
Host: Legal Services of Greater Miami, Inc.
Sponsor: Greenberg Traurig, LLP, The Florida Bar Foundation