
Fernanda Herrera Spieler
Host: Resilience Force
Sponsor: Equal Justice Works Text-to-Give
Current Fellow
Joseph’s project increased community power, socioeconomic opportunities, and legal services to northeast Florida immigrant and migrant worker families via community education, outreach, pro bono recruitment, and community lawyering.
Throughout Florida, immigrant families come to work, live, and raise children in hopes of securing stability for the future. In the small rural towns of northeast Florida, these families live further isolated culturally and economically from community resources and legal services. This project empowered such community members to properly identify and assess legal challenges and needs, as well as establish strategies for solutions and service acquisition. Through an array of community partnerships, legal services, education events, and pro bono recruitment, community members are better able to move forward in confidence and more readily access much needed legal services.
During the two-year Fellowship, Joseph:
Following his Fellowship, Joseph has remained at Florida Legal Services, working on projects that center on immigrant and migrant rights, fair housing advocacy, and additional community lawyering endeavors.
Equal Justice Works Fellow lays foundation for change in rural immigrant neighborhoods
Host: Resilience Force
Sponsor: Equal Justice Works Text-to-Give
Current Fellow
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Sponsor: 3M Company, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath
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