Executive Director blog
A note from our Executive Director
On March 8th, International Women’s Day, I celebrated my 6th anniversary as the Executive Director. Working with our dedicated team of expert advocates across the Bay Area is a privilege. They are deeply committed to addressing poverty and discrimination, working alongside clients daily to improve individual lives and society as…
MoreBayLegal Publishes Our 2021 Annual Report
Dear Partners In Justice, Thank you for your partnership and support of our critical work with low-income communities throughout the Bay Area toward a more just society for all! The publication today of our 2021 Annual Report stands as a compelling reminder to all of us at BayLegal of what…
MoreBayLegal Remembers Robert Planthold
Bay Area Legal Aid joins with friends, colleagues, and allies in the access to justice, disability, and tenant rights communities in our shared grief for the loss of our dear friend and long-serving member of our Board of Directors, Robert “Bob” Planthold who passed away unexpectedly on January 27th. BayLegal’s…
MoreBayLegal publishes our 2019 & 2020 annual report
Dear Partners in Justice, Bay Area Legal Aid is proud to present our 2019 & 2020 Biennial Report. It would require a much longer publication to adequately detail the contributions over those two years of all our practice units, multidisciplinary projects, litigation and advocacy initiatives, and partnerships with other legal…
MoreExecutive Director’s Blog, June 2021
Happy Pride! I love that this month highlights and celebrates the power of love, expression, community, and dignity. And that in this celebration is the critical recognition of the discrimination, police brutality and legal oppression that have and continue to threaten LGBTQ lives and bodies and that we must always…
MoreExecutive Director’s Blog, April/May 2021
My thoughts are with the families of Daunte Wright, Ma’Khia Bryant, Alex Toledo, Mario Gonzalez, Iremamber Sykap, and the countless others who have lost loved ones to state violence. As we at Bay Area Legal Aid hold the violence and grief of this past month, we also hold the knowledge…
MoreExecutive Director’s Blog, March 2021
Dear friends of Bay Area Legal Aid, The lives taken from us over a full year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the hugely disproportionate share of trauma and loss that has fallen to low-income families, Black families, Indigenous families, other families of color, and immigrant families—these demand that we enter…
MoreBayLegal’s 2020 Annual Campaign Launches: A Note from Our Executive Director
Dear friends and supporters of Bay Area Legal Aid, As we launch BayLegal’s 2020 Annual Campaign, I am so grateful that with your support we are able to address the critical needs of our clients. As the public health and economic stresses intensify and deepen our clients face increased housing…
MoreExecutive Director’s Blog, April 2020
Dear Friends of BayLegal, Welcome to the April issue of our 2020 Storytelling Project, in which we reconnect with our history to show how our advocacy in the present day has continued our mission to break the cycles of family and community poverty. The Covid-19 public health crisis further exposes…
MoreExecutive Director’s blog, February 2020
Sixty years ago, on February 1, 1960, four Black students from North Carolina A & T College led a carefully organized peaceful protest at a Woolworth lunch counter. Their courage and actions helped to force the nation to confront the injustice of segregation and helped spark a powerful student-led civil…
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