“I am honored to lead EBCLC as we work in partnership with our clients to navigate and disrupt the legal system, and to reimagine justice.”

Long before I joined EBCLC’s Community Economic Justice Clinic as a law student advocate, my great-uncle Alexander Hoffman, who we called “Sascha”, was showing the East Bay what true community lawyering looks like.  Sascha was an activist attorney in Berkeley during the 1960s, representing the demonstrators who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee and the […]

As Sarah Bauer navigated her undergraduate career at UC Berkeley and then followed her passion to Berkeley Law, she noticed an unfortunate, common issue plaguing her peers – food insecurity, or a lack of access to healthy food.

This month, Ramon Becerra-Alcantar returned to his alma mater to bring free legal services to undocumented students on the campus that helped launch his career as an advocate.

Low-Income Californians Get Protection From Debt Collectors Trying to Clean Out Their Bank Account.

It was a bittersweet summer for all of us here at EBCLC as we welcomed 46 summer interns into our offices, while also recognizing the passage of a full year since the loss of our beloved student Brian Lewinstein. Brian was a friend to everyone during the 2018 summer he spent interning with EBCLC’s Youth […]

Kaye Hudson, EBCLC Social Work Program alum, received her Masters in Social Work in May 2019.   In past lives, Kaye Hudson , MSW, has competed in darts on the national stage, owned her own hobby shop, and operated a daycare center. But it’s at EBCLC that she launched the career in which she was […]

Daniel Faessler (back row, center) with colleagues and students at May 9, 2019 EBCLC Graduation Ceremony PC: RSVP Event Photography Between providing robust client services and training the next generation of public interest advocates, supervising attorneys at the East Bay Community Law Center have a lot on their plates. As Daniel Faessler has demonstrated, though, […]

Each summer, EBCLC sends a new class of over 150 principled, compassionate attorneys into the world. We hope you will join us in celebrating all of our students, and in congratulating our very own Nirali Beri, Hannah Flanery, and Cindy Pan on the highly distinguished honors they received in May!