Sarah Hill Colwell
Host: Legal Aid of North Carolina
Sponsor: AmeriCorps, Equal Justice Works
Alex Bender
- Hosted by East Bay Community Law Center
- Service location Berkeley, California
- Law school University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
- Issue area Civil Rights/Civil Liberties
- Fellowship class year 2014
- Program AmeriCorps Fellows Program
The Project
Provide direct legal representation and assistance to low-income clients throughout Alameda County, including: petitioning for criminal records remedies; correcting inaccurate public and private criminal record reports; enforcing federal and state consumer protections that mandate accurate and fair criminal history reporting in commercial criminal background checks; work with the court and DMV for people charged with or convicted of offenses that affect their driver’s licenses (and therefore their chance at employment); and support clients trying to obtain or keep occupational licenses and/or waivers to work in a licensed facility following contact with law enforcement.
I am committed to helping my clients overcome systemic barriers to employment because nobody should be defined solely by an encounter with the criminal justice system.
Alex Bender /
Equal Justice Works Fellow
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