
Reema Ali
Host: Equal Justice Center
Sponsor: Texas Access to Justice Foundation
Joseph 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 period, 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: Equal Justice Center
Sponsor: Texas Access to Justice Foundation
Host: Equal Justice Center
Sponsor: Anonymous
Host: The Women's Law Center of Maryland
Sponsor: David Stern Equal Justice Works Fellowship
Host: Urban Justice Center
Sponsor: Friends and Family of Philip M. Stern