In June 2017, Susan Burton, founder of the successful prisoner reentry program A New Way of Life Reentry Project (ANWOL), spoke to students and staff at the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC). Ms. Burton’s story is profound […]
All Work By Theresa Zhen
A Clean Slate Case Study of Community Lawyering
The United States has a long history of appropriation, forced movement, and penalization of indigenous people, minorities, and anyone perceived as “other.” From the colonization of the Americas, slavery, and forced movement of Africans to the “post-slavery” era that deprives civil rights and incarcerates people of color and indigent communities, this repression continues. Indeed, the […]