Texas RioGrande Legal Aid

We're #hiring a new Staff Attorney | Veterans Advocacy Project in Texas. Apply today or share this post with your network.

🌎 Preserving our clients’ communities means protecting the environment they live in.   ⚖️ That's why our feature spread in the annual Justice Report is about environmental justice cases that TRLA took on in 2023.  🌄 Join us for a trip to the small town of Toyah, TX and the Socorro and San Xavier communities of El Paso, where residents have been facing devastating environmental hazards. You'll read about what our legal team has done to try and preserve these communities in the face of environmental disaster.  🔎 Check out the story in our newest annual Justice Report, pages 19-22:

We're #hiring a new Staff Attorney | Education & Special Education in Texas. Apply today or share this post with your network.

⚖️ Here at TRLA, we have some of the most incredible, justice-oriented folks out there. We are proud to share our official Staff Spotlight Series! Keep an eye out for words of wisdom, reasons to keep fighting the good fight, and more. Link below! 👉 Mary Christine Reed (she/her) is the Group Coordinator of the Economic and Social Justice Group and the Manager of the Education team at TRLA. 🏆 In 2022, Mary Christine was chosen for the David Hall Award by TRLA’s Board of Directors after being nominated by her colleagues. 🗓️ In the past, she has also been the Director of the Telephone Access to Justice Project, Group Coordinator for Intake, the Director of the Foster Youth Justice Project, and Branch Manager of the TRLA Austin Office. 3️⃣1️⃣ She spent the first five years of her career at TRLA s as a staff attorney in the Rio Grande Valley where she handled a wide range of civil legal matters. Mary Christine has been with TRLA for 31 years – and that doesn't even include the time she spent clerking at TRLA as a law student!    https://trla.me/spotlight

We're #hiring a new Project Director | Southern Migrant Legal Services in Nashville, Tennessee. Apply today or share this post with your network.

We're #hiring a new Staff Attorney in Texas. Apply today or share this post with your network.

We're #hiring a new Post-Graduate Legal Fellowship in Texas. Apply today or share this post with your network.

🗞️ Hot off the press! TRLA’s latest annual Justice Report has arrived.  👀 Check it out to for updated impact numbers for 2023, as well as inspiring client stories spanning from a veteran getting to keep his home, to environmental justice efforts in rural Texas and El Paso, to two innovative new projects aimed at addressing intertwined medical and legal issues, and more!  🧐 None of the work featured in the report would be possible without supporters like you. Take a look on our website and please share far and wide in your network:

📣REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS!  📝 Disaster University is a project funded by  a grant awarded to TRLA from the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), pursuant to the 2022 Disaster Supplemental Appropriations, which provided special federal funding for survivors 2022 federally declared disasters.  🤔 Know anyone who might be interested? Please share! https://lnkd.in/g6GW6YmK Key dates of the project include: Hiring timeframe: July 2024 Performance begins as soon as July 2024 Project Completion: June 2025 with the possibility of a grant extension Proposals are due via email by 5:00 p.m., C.S.T., on July 5, 2024.

🏳️🌈 TRLA Tips: Pride Edition is LIVE! Head over to the TRLA journal to read about some of the most common questions our Special Project Director for the LGBTQ Civil Rights Project Gabriel Sanchez (they/she/he) receive regarding LGBTQ rights in Texas. 🌟 As we near the end of Pride Month, we want to extend a thank you to all of our community members who attended the various pride celebrations across our service area. To our community partners that invited us to table and join in on Pride festivities and events: thank you. Our work for the LGBTQ community would not be possible without our incredible clients and partner organizations. The fight for justice, safety, and visibility continues on.