
Racial Equity and Advocacy Inside and Out
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Racial equity work requires our organizations to look inward at our own culture, policies and practices while at the same time looking outward, recognizing the racism our clients and communities experience and advocating with them against systemic oppression. This simultaneous need to work internally and externally is challenging. In this session, leaders from the civil legal aid community will share their experience navigating these issues, and engage with the audience to hear examples from the field, so that we can learn from each other how to keep moving our work for racial justice forward.

Lorray Brown
Executive Director
Michigan Statewide Advocacy Services
Lorray S. C. Brown is the Executive Director of Michigan Statewide Advocacy Services (MSAS), a statewide advocacy program that provides services to Michigan’s low-income residents, Michigan's immigrant communities, and seniors. Ms. Brown has also been the managing attorney and the statewide consumer law specialist for the Michigan Poverty Law Program (MPLP) since 2001. She has also directed the Michigan Foreclosure Prevention Project since 2009. In her role as the statewide consumer law and foreclosure specialist, she has provided litigation, advocacy and case consultation support for cases involving foreclosure prevention, anti-predatory lending, debt collection, payday loans, garnishment and student loans. Ms. Brown has conducted numerous trainings concerning consumer law, predatory lending, foreclosures, and mortgage servicing.

Justin Williams
Lakeshore Legal Aid
Justin serves as the inaugural Chief Equity Officer at Lakeshore Legal Aid, the largest civil legal aid provider in Michigan. His work encompasses the organization's DEI efforts and Employee Relations work. Justin has done similar work in the non-profit and higher education sector for nearly a decade, most recently serving as Chief DEI Officer at Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan. Justin aims to ensure that through his work, organizations are who they say they are and live into their commitments to equity and racial justice. When he's not driving that change, he's daddy to Taylor and Kendall, his 7 year old twin daughters.
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