We, the California civil legal aid community, are shocked by the ongoing attacks on the rule of law and the targeted assaults on the legal profession and the judiciary, which are aimed at undermining our Constitution and the justice system.
We, the undersigned, provide access to justice without charge to hundreds of thousands of low-income Californians in need of legal assistance. Their rights are at risk as a result of the President’s actions that aim to diminish our legal system and access to it.
Our legal system, which enshrines the right to counsel for many critical legal needs, is designed with the assumption that people have a lawyer to help them. People without attorneys must navigate difficult and complicated systems on their own.
Our community works to level the playing field and to help people have equal access to justice. The recent executive orders that attack our profession are attacking access to justice for everyone.
We call upon other members of our profession to take up this fight on behalf of their clients against the usurpation of justice and defend the rule of law.
| Matthew Hulse, Executive Director, Contra Costa Senior Legal Services |
| Richard Konda, Executive Director, Asian Law Alliance |
| Kate Crowley Richardson, Co-Executive Director, Legal Link |
| Laura McMahon, Executive Director, Legal Aid of Marin |
| Jenny Farrell, Executive Director, Mental Health Advocacy Services |
| Maeve Elise Brown, Executive Director, Housing and Economic Rights Advocates |
| Eric Cohen, Executive Director, Immigrant Legal Resource Center |
| Deborah Son, Executive Director, Family Violence Appellate Project |
| Stephanie Barclay, Executive Director, San Luis Obispo Legal Assistance Foundation |
| Kathryn Eidmann, President & CEO, Public Counsel |
| Maura Gibney, Executive Director, California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform |
| Stacy Horth-Neubert, Executive Director, Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law |
| Erin Scott, Executive Director, Family Violence Law Center |
| Hannah Brady, Executive Director, Senior Advocacy Network |
| Sunny Noh, Executive Director, Legal Aid of Sonoma County |
| Eleni Wolfe-Roubatis, Co-Executive Director, Immigrant Legal Defense |
| Jennifer Rodriguez, Executive Director, Youth Law Center |
| Rebecca Steckler, Executive Director, Senior Citizens Legal Aid |
| Tania Millan, Executive Director, The Wage Justice Center |
| Kate Jastram, Director of Policy & Advocacy, Center for Gender & Refugee Studies – California |
| Carolina Martin Ramos, Executive Director, La Raza Centro Legal |
| Randi Sunshine, Executive Director, Learning Rights Law Center |
| Jora Trang, Chief of Staff & Equity, Worksafe |
| Elizabeth Lopez, Executive Director, Southern California Immigration Project |
| Brooke Weitzman, Executive Director, Elder Law and Disability Rights Center |
| Linda Coco, Director of Legal Clinics, McGeorge School of Law |
| Diego Cartagena, President & CEO, Bet Tzedek Legal Services |
| Joan Graff, President, Legal Aid at Work |
| Diane Trunk, Deputy Executive Director, LACBA Counsel for Justice |
| Carmen McDonald, Executive Director, Survivor Justice Center |
| M. Stacey Hawver, Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County |
| Lindsay Nako, Executive Director, Impact Fund |
| Gabriela Perez, Executive Director, Inland Empire Latino Lawyers Association |
| Cori Racela, Executive Director, Western Center on Law & Poverty |
| Phil Hwang, CEO, OneJustice |
| Gautam Jagannath, Executive Director, Social Justice Collaborative |
| Leah Simon-Weisberg, Executive Director, California Center for Movement Legal Services |
| Zoe Polk, Executive Director, East Bay Community Law Center |
| Marcus Tang, Executive Director, California Immigration Project |
| Teri Scarlett, Executive Director, Legal Services for Seniors |
| Andy Imparato, CEO, Disability Rights California |
| Patricia Wall, Executive Director, Homeless Action Center |
| Sarah Galvan, Managing Director, Elder Rights, Justice in Aging |
| Janet Schulman, Interim Executive Director, California Women’s Law Center |
| Matt Foreman, Executive Director, AIDS Legal Referral Panel |
| Katrina Logan, Executive Director, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto |
| Jonathan Soglin, Executive Director, First District Appellate Project |
| Sylvia Torres-Guillén, President & CEO, Disability Rights Legal Center |
| Caitlin Chan, Executive Director, Legal Assistance for Seniors |
| Suzanne McCormick, Executive Director, Immigration Center for Women and Children (ICWC) |
| Daniel Casanova, Executive Director, Eviction Defense Collaborative |
| Erika Pinheiro, Executive Director, Al Otro Lado |
| Lindsay Toczylowski, CEO, Immigrant Defenders Law Center |
| Monique Berlanga, Executive Director, Centro Legal de la Raza |
| Connie Chung Joe, CEO, Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California |
| Shashi Hanuman, Executive Director, The Public Interest Law Project |
| Yolanda Jackson, Executive Director & General Counsel, Justice & Diversity Center |
| Omar Ramirez, Community Service Legal Assistant, Open Door Legal |
We welcome signatures from legal aid organizations in California. Please get in touch with Salena Copeland (SCopeland@LAAConline.org) for more information and to sign on.