Somil Trivedi Somil Trivedi is Chief Legal & Advocacy Director at Maryland Legal Aid, where he is currently bringing or brainstorming numerous 1983 actions stemming from individual representations in core legal services areas. He was previously a Senior Staff Attorney at the National ACLU, where he filed such claims in criminal justice and voting rights across the country.

John Pollock is a Staff Attorney for the Public Justice Center who has served since 2009 as the Coordinator of the National Coalition for the Civil Right to Counsel (NCCRC). The NCCRC works in 45 states at the state and local level to establish the right to counsel for low-income individuals in civil cases involving basic human needs such as child custody, housing, safety, mental health, and civil incarceration. He is the recipient of the 2018 Innovations Award from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA). Previously, John worked as the Enforcement Director for the Central Alabama Fair Housing Center and as a law fellow / consultant at the Southern Poverty Law Center. He graduated from Northeastern University School of Law, where he was a recipient of a Public Interest Law Scholarship (PILS). He is the author of many law review articles, including Appointment of Counsel for Civil Litigants: A Judicial Path to Ensuring the Fair and Ethical Administration of Justice, Court Review, Vol. 56 Issue 1 (2020).