The Civil Rights & Racial Justice Program at the Legal Aid Justice Center works to end the criminalization of poverty in Virginia by exposing and addressing criminal legal system policies that target people because of poverty and race.

The EJA Civil Rights and Racial Justice Fellowship will begin in Fall 2023.

Every minute 24 people are victims of rape, physical violence or stalking. We have a domestic violence crisis, a crisis affecting 12 million women and men annually in the United States. In Cook County alone, from 9/1/21 through 9/1/22, Illinois Hotline Contact Data showed 20,754 calls from survivors seeking help.

The EJA Domestic Violence Fellowship will begin in Fall 2023.