Around the world legal empowerment organizations are improving justice outcomes by focusing on bottom-up, grassroots justice solutions. This panel discussion will share perspectives from legal empowerment practitioners in the U.S. who are leading a movement that emphasizes building community power and agency by working hand-in-hand with communities to know, use and shape the laws that affect their everyday lives.
Keynote
(simultaneous interpretation will be provided in Spanish for the keynote)- Vivek Maru, Founder and CEO, Namati
Panelists:
- Lam Ho, Executive Director and Founder, Beyond Legal Aid
- Ariadna Godreau Aubert, Founder and Executive Director, Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico, Inc.
- Sukti Dhital, Executive Director, Robert and Helen Bernstein Institute for Human Rights at NYU
Moderator:
- Matthew Burnett, Policy Officer, Open Society Justice Initiative
