<h1>So You Want to be a Movement Lawyer, Now What?</h1>
<h3>a Law@theMargins Teach-In<br />Friday, January 29, 2015<br />12:30 p.m EDT</h3>
SPEAKERS
<h5 style="text-align: center;"><em>moderated by Law@theMargins Editor-in-Chief Chaumtoli Huq</em></h5>
What’s the relationship between law and organizing? What opportunities exist for law students and new attorneys to engage in current social movements of the day?Find out on Friday, January 29 at 12:30 p.m., as we host a Webinar on Movement Lawyering, co-sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild and Community Legal Resource Network of the CUNY School of Law.The hour and half long webinar will provide participants with a background on movement lawyering not just in the US but also globally and some theoretical distinctions with the more professionalized \\”public interest law.\\” The seminar will also examine successful models in which lawyers have engaged with people and movements, review how lawyers can support alternative modes of organizing that build power which is different than litigation strategies and discuss some real structural and personal challenges to this work.
Register to participate today!
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More on Our Participating Speakers
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Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson is an Affrilachian (Black Appalachian), working class womyn, born and raised in Southeast Tennessee who has made a lifetime commitment to serve on the frontlines of social justice movements. She is a proud member and organizer with Concerned Citizens for Justice in Chattanooga, TN, plays an active leadership role in the Movement For Black Lives (the strategy table, the national Convening organizing team, and the leadership team of the policy table), is a board member of the Highlander Education and Research Center, and is the Regional Organizer at Project South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty and Genocide based in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| Bill Quigley is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. Bill has worked with social change organizations on all kinds of campaigns in the courts, in the legislatures, in international forums and on the streets for 40 years. |
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Francesca Feruglio is a co-founder of Nazdeek, a legal capacity building organization committed to bringing access to justice closer to marginalized communities in India. She is a human rights activist and researcher with experience in promoting human rights and ensuring access to justice for communities and individuals. |
| Parag Rajendra Khandhar, Esq. is a principal in the Maryland/D.C. solidarity economies law firm Gilmore Khandhar, LLC and a co-founder of Baltimore Activating Solidarity Economies (BASE). Both are dedicated to building a resilient, radically inclusive economy centering upon principles of race and social equity, sustainability, and valuing people and the planet over profit. Tweets @ParagCED. |
| Colette Pichon Battle, Esq. is a native of Louisiana who, over the past nine years, has worked with local communities, national funders and elected officials around equity in the post-Katrina/post-BP disaster Gulf Coast. In 2015 Colette was selected as an Echoing Green Climate Fellow as a social entrepreneur of the Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy (GCCLP), where she serves as Executive Director and directs programming focused on Global Migration, Community Economic Development, Climate Justice and Equitable Disaster Recovery. |
