Linda Anderson Stanley is the Senior Director of Programs at Equal Justice Works, where she leads strategy, innovation, and operational oversight across the organization’s national fellowship portfolio and public service leadership initiatives. In this role, she works across recruitment, fellowship implementation, learning and development, fundraising strategy, and new program incubation to expand equitable pathways into public interest law and strengthen access to justice nationwide.
Linda has played a key role in developing and scaling nationally recognized cohort fellowship models focused on disaster resilience, housing justice, economic justice, and civil rights. She helped build Equal Justice Works’ Disaster Resilience Program and continues to shape initiatives that respond to emerging legal and community needs through collaborative, community-centered approaches. Her work increasingly focuses on building sustainable public service leadership pipelines, strengthening cross-sector partnerships, and designing programs that connect legal services, movement-building, and systems change.
Prior to her current role, Linda served as Associate Director of Disaster Programs at Equal Justice Works and as a Staff Attorney at Bay Area Legal Services, where she represented low-income clients in disaster recovery, housing, consumer protection, and veterans advocacy matters.
Linda is also an adjunct professor at Stetson University College of Law, where she co-teaches a Disaster Law Primer focused on disaster recovery systems, access to justice, and legal advocacy in crisis settings. Nationally, she has held leadership roles with the American Bar Association, including serving as Director of the ABA Young Lawyers Division Disaster Legal Services Program and Chair of the ABA Standing Committee on Disaster Response and Preparedness.
Her work has been recognized through honors including the ABA On the Rise – Top 40 Young Lawyers award, ABA Star of the Year awards, Hillsborough County Outstanding Young Lawyer award, and recognition as a Tampa Bay Business Journal Business of Pride Ally honoree
Linda earned her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Illinois and her J.D. from the University of Illinois Chicago School of Law. She is licensed to practice law in Florida and Illinois
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