
Hillary Richard
Host: Central Minnesota Legal Services
Sponsor: Anonymous, Faegre Drinker, Target Corporation
Current Fellow
Elizabeth works to reduce the staggering number of people serving extremely long and often unnecessary probation sentences in Georgia to promote successful reentry through policy reform, education, and direct representation.
Georgia has the highest rate of people under correctional control in the entire nation, and, on average, sentences individuals on probation nearly three times longer than other states. Black people are disparately impacted under Georgia’s probation system. Although Black people make up just 33% of Georgia’s population, of the 190,000(+) individuals serving probation, nearly 50% are Black people. From both a safety and cost perspective, Georgia’s staggering numbers are ineffective at improving outcomes for those individuals serving sentences and the community as a whole. Elizabeth works to create legislative and administrative changes to Georgia’s probation system. She also advocates for those serving excessively lengthy probation sentences, which will reduce the number of people on probation in Georgia.
Elizabeth’s faith is the driving force behind her passion to advocate for the overlooked and the oppressed. She knows personally what it means to have a great advocate and desires that every person in the criminal justice system knows what it means to have someone fight for them.
In the first year of the Fellowship, Elizabeth has:
In the next six months, Elizabeth plans to:
Pursuing a passion to lift people up
Host: Central Minnesota Legal Services
Sponsor: Anonymous, Faegre Drinker, Target Corporation
Current Fellow
Host: First Defense Legal Aid
Host: Root & Rebound Reentry Advocates
Sponsor: The Clorox Company
Current Fellow
Host: Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition
Sponsor: The Arnold & Porter Foundation
Current Fellow