Photo credit: Dillon Davis
This year, Emancipate NC was nominated and selected for the Community Partner of the Year Pro Bono Publico Award at UNC Law School. This award recognizes the pro bono contributions of a partnering organization that has created opportunities for UNC School of Law students to meet unmet legal needs.
Emancipate’s Toia, Ian, Jaelyn, and Elizabeth went to the Law School on Wednesday to accept the organization’s award. This year, UNC law students have assisted Team Emancipate with work on projects related to the rights of transgender people in prison, abolishing family policing, Don’t Plead to Weed, extreme sentencing, the rights of survivors of domestic violence, alternative police responses, and with the planning and coordination of our inaugural Movement Lawyering CLE seminar.
Thank you to all the law student volunteers who have shown their solidarity through this labor. We appreciate it!