Ten years in legal aid
What helps people get legal help, what gets in the way, and where the work is going.
Coming soonTen years spent helping civil legal aid reach the people who qualify for it. I'm now moving that work toward privacy and AI governance, which runs on the same discipline.
I coordinate pro bono programs at Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut, running multiple Private Attorney Involvement referral tracks at once — security-deposit and divorce clinics, the Call4Law consumer hotline, and the federal bankruptcy pro bono panel. The work is operational at its core: turning dense eligibility rules into processes that non-lawyers and volunteers can actually follow.
A former licensed REALTOR®, I bring working knowledge of residential transactions and asset documentation into housing and bankruptcy contexts. I'm bilingual in English and Spanish, and I'm actively building toward privacy, compliance, and AI-governance credentials — the CIPP/US through AIGP path — where the core task is the same: turning regulation into process people can follow.
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Legal operations, pro bono program coordination, and a working transition into privacy and AI governance. Résumé, writing, and credentials.
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Visit the shopPanel administrator for the D. Conn. Bankruptcy Pro Bono Program — processing Chapter 7 applications, verifying financial eligibility, routing cases to panel attorneys, and tracking caseloads against the annual cap.
Manage and build content on Connecticut's statewide pro bono portal — posting cases, drafting anonymized case descriptions, routing partner communications, and recruiting firms, bar associations, and law schools.
Launched and administered Connecticut's ABA Free Legal Answers clinic; managed up to 30 new pro bono cases monthly through Call4Law across housing, family, consumer finance, and disability matters.
Recruited and onboarded volunteer attorneys via CBA Pro Bono Connect; guided clients through the Pardon process; prepared and submitted expungement applications to the CT Board of Pardons & Paroles.
Notes on legal operations, the privacy pivot, and what a decade in legal aid actually teaches you. Bilingual where it counts.
What helps people get legal help, what gets in the way, and where the work is going.
Coming soonThe skill carries over. A court eligibility rule and a GDPR requirement both have to become a process someone can actually follow.
Coming soonWhat I've seen working with clients who've lost housing or are about to, and where the system fails them.
Read the build noteOpen to conversations about privacy and AI-governance roles, legal operations work, and bilingual program coordination across the US and EU.