Beatrice Roger
Host: Lone Star Legal Aid
Sponsor: Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Texas Access to Justice Foundation
Kirsten expanded access to justice in Tennessee through technology, making some form of civil legal help available to the 1.2 million Tennesseans living in poverty.
At the start of the project, the State of Tennessee had the 12th highest poverty rate in the country and ranked 46th on the Justice Index for its ratio of civil legal aid attorneys to low-income individuals eligible for free legal aid. However, growing internet access among low-income communities throughout Tennessee provided an important opportunity to use new technologies to tackle the state’s interconnected problems of poverty and barriers to civil legal aid. Through this project, Kirsten developed technology programs to support and supplement civil legal aid organizations across the state. These tools made some form of civil legal help available to all Tennesseans.
In the past two years, Kirsten has:
Now that the Fellowship is complete, Kirsten plans to:
Host: Lone Star Legal Aid
Sponsor: Greenberg Traurig, LLP, Texas Access to Justice Foundation
Host: Human Rights First
Sponsor: Morgan Stanley, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Host: Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.
Sponsor: Anonymous
Host: Three Rivers Legal Services, Inc.
Sponsor: The Florida Bar Foundation