
Carrie Ann Lucas
Host: Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition
Sponsor: Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Amanda provided family law services to refugees, human trafficking victims, and immigrant domestic violence victims who are seeking protective orders and divorces from their abuser and custody of their children.
Many families seeking assistance from immigration legal aid organizations are simultaneously in need of family law services for help with adoption, divorce, and child custody. This is particularly evident in Violence Against Women Act applications in which immigrant domestic violence victims are seeking legal status in the United States while also seeking a protective order or divorce from their abusive U.S.-citizen spouse and custody of any children. Establishing and growing a direct referral program between Lone Star Legal Aid and local immigration legal aid organizations will help to holistically meet the legal needs of both refugees resettling in Houston and the immigrant victims of domestic violence and human trafficking.
During her Fellowship, Amanda:
Host: Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition
Sponsor: Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Host: Bread for the City
Sponsor: Crowell & Moring Foundation
Host: Community Legal Aid SoCal
Sponsor: Lowndes Drosdick Doster Kantor & Reed, P.A.
Host: MFY Legal Services, Inc.
Sponsor: Greenberg Traurig, LLP