EJA News

EJA News

November 2018

EJA and The Dilley Pro-Bono Project Announce two Two-Year $130,000 Post-Graduate Fellowships

November 12, 2018
Equal Justice America and The Dilley Pro-Bono Project have announced the creation of a two two-year, $130,000 Immigration Fellowships. The Dilley Pro-Bono Project provides free legal services to asylum-seeking mothers and their children who are being detained in the South Texas Family Residential Center (STFRC), the largest detention center in the country.

Apply for EJA Two-Year $130,000 Immigration Fellowship at Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid

November 12, 2018
The Dilley Pro Bono Project, a collaboration of the American Immigration Council, American Immigration Lawyers Association, CLINIC and Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, is pleased to announce a post-graduate fellowship for graduating or recently graduated Columbia Law School students in partnership with Equal Justice America.

2012 Fellow Fights for Civil Rights in Hawaii

November 13, 2018
Wookie Kim is a Harvard Law School graduate, 2012 Equal Justice America Fellow, and a staff attorney at ACLU Hawai‘i. Wookie was initially motivated to attend law school after teaching in DC public schools as a Teach For America corps member where he witnessed the systemic inequalities that are “baked into society,” and he developed a passion for changing things for the better.