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Welcome Summer ’24 Interns!

LAJC has 11 law students from all over the country joining us for 10-week summer internships. They will be working with the community on issues… Read More

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Michaela Ross

Michaela Ross is a Senior Attorney on the Housing & Consumer Justice team in the Richmond, VA office of the Legal Aid Justice Center. Prior to… Read More

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Maria Prieto

Maria is Venezuelan immigrant, who arrived in the United States at the age of 14. She is recently graduating from the illustrious Virginia State University… Read More

Governor Youngkin’s Veto Denies Minimum Wage Protections for Virginia’s Farmworkers

HB157 would have corrected a vestige of the Jim Crow Era and protected some of our most vulnerable workers RICHMOND, VA – Today, during National… Read More

LAJC Immigration Work Spotlight

Today, we want to highlight the recent efforts of our Immigrant Justice Program. The Immigrant Justice Program advocates alongside immigrant communities to end mass detention… Read More

Organizing School at LAJC

Last week, we joined with other members of the Richmond Transparency and Accountability Project (RTAP) to host their first “Organizing School,” a place for community… Read More

“Virginians to State Leaders: Deliver Justice on Court Debt” Press Conference

Richmond, VA—Virginians with lived experience; elected officials including Delegates Price, Cousins, Jones, and Hernandez; Senator Williams-Graves; and advocates from the Legal Aid Justice Center (LAJC),… Read More

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Ruby Cherian

Ruby Cherian joined LAJC in 2023 as an Equal Justice America Fellow. She works in the Civil Rights & Racial Justice Program. She received a B.S.A. Read More

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Daniela Tejero

Daniela (Dani) Tejero is a Health Navigator/Paralegal at the Richmond office. She is a Spanish speaker, originally from Chile who first came to the United… Read More

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Challenging employer abuses 

In 2019, our team helped 17 workers—victims of labor trafficking, violations of overtime laws, and breaches of their H-2B migrant visa contracts—file a lawsuit against… Read More

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