Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach

1121 MISSION STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA 94103 1305 FRANKLIN STREET, SUITE 410, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94612

2016 FELLOWSHIP SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY

Background: API Legal Outreach invites project proposals from qualified third-year law students or recent law graduates for Fall 2016 legal fellowships including Equal Justice Works, Borchard, Abascal, Pride Law Fund, Echoing Green, New Voices, Berkeley, Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and Skadden.

API Legal Outreach is the largest social justice legal organization serving the immigrant communities of the Greater Bay Area. Founded in 1975, our mission is to provide culturally competent and linguistically appropriate legal representation to the most marginalized segments of the community including low-income women, seniors, immigrants, youth, and individuals with disabilities. Our legal team of 20 attorneys provides legal services in more than a dozen different languages and dialects.

With offices in Oakland and San Francisco, our legal work is focused in the areas of domestic violence/family law, immigration and immigrant rights, senior law and elder abuse, anti-human trafficking, youth violence prevention, tax, disability rights, housing preservation, and other social justice issues. In recent years, we have launched new initiatives to represent unaccompanied minors fleeing from Central America, to increase our disability rights and public benefits advocacy, and to address ongoing language access issues in the courts and justice system.

Proposals: In previous years, API Legal Outreach has been awarded a Tom Steel Pride Law Fund Fellowship to address domestic violence in the LGBT community, a Berkeley Law Fellowship to conduct domestic violence outreach through the Vietnamese nail salon network; a New Voices Fellowship to develop an anti-human trafficking task force and services center; Equal Justice Works fellowships targeted to providing leadership development and legal services in the Lao, Filipino and South Asian communities; and a Borchard Fellowship to provide legal services to elders in the Korean and API community.

Applicants should fully research fellowship programs, their deadlines, priorities, and application processes. Fellowship applicants will be considered on the bases of the strength of their project proposals, demonstrated commitment to social justice work and experience in working with low-income API or other underserved communities.

Application Deadline: September 1, 2015 (but applications will be considered as received on a rolling basis). To apply to be sponsored by API Legal Outreach, send a resume, list of references and a two-page project proposal to Fellowship Committee c/o Christine Hoang at [email protected].

API Legal Outreach is an equal opportunity employer committed to affirmative action.