Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCR) works to advance, protect and promote the civil rights of communities of color, low-income persons, immigrants, and refugees. Assisted by hundreds of pro bono attorneys, LCCR provides free legal assistance and representation to individuals on civil legal matters through direct services, impact litigation and policy advocacy. LCCR was founded in 1968 when the country was reeling from the shock of the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy. Today, LCCR continues to partner with pro bono attorneys to support communities that face racism and discrimination. Our racial justice, education, immigration, and economic justice work is driven by the clients and communities we serve. LCCR is interested in sponsoring applicants for fellowships, including the Skadden and Equal Justice Works Fellowship Programs, for the 2019-2021 cycle. LCCR is particularly interested in potentially sponsoring projects in the following areas: 

• Immigration Enforcement/Detention Accountability: Our immigrant justice program currently is litigating detention conditions along the southwestern border of the UnitedStates. Through our direct representation program and partnerships with grassroots organizations, we regularly encounter immigrants who have been victims of harsh and unlawful enforcement activity and detention conditions at the border, in detention centers in California, and in enforcement actions in the Bay Area. We are interested in a project that would develop scalable litigation and advocacy to hold immigration enforcement authorities accountable for violating individual immigrants’ constitutional and statutory rights in the enforcement context.
  
• Economic Justice: Our Economic Justice agenda includes work on the civil rights of poorand homeless people, including (1) advocating for due process rights to alleviate theburdens of court and municipal debt, including traffic, criminal debt, parking and cartows; (2) fighting the criminalization of homelessness and poverty; and (3) providinggeneral legal services to poor and homeless clients at our Glide Clinic.
  
• Education Equity: Our Education Equity project advocates for equal educationalopportunity, with a particular focus on breaking down barriers that disproportionatelyimpact youth of color. We are interested in projects that will address education equityissues, such as discriminatory discipline practices and other “school to prison pipeline”issues and the rights of immigrant and English Learner students.
  
• Police Violence/Harassment: Our Racial Justice practice is working to fightdiscriminatory low level policing: stop and frisk, harassment, and citations and warrantsfor infractions like loitering, sitting on the sidewalk, or vending without a permit, which are disproportionately given to people of color. We are also interested in fighting police violence by representing people in officer complaints and helping improve police accountability and oversight for police harassment and violence. 
  
• Community Economic Development: we currently provide transactional legalassistance to low-income micro-entrepreneurs. We are interested in creative projects thatwould develop legal and policy advocacy strategies to address the displacement ofdiverse communities and local businesses throughout the Bay Area, with a focus onstrengthening small businesses owned by people of color, immigrants, and/or women.
  
• Other projects in the areas of racial justice, economic empowerment and/or immigrant justice.
  

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