Grant Database

Sesilia Valdez Diaz will serve low-wage Latina workers in the hospitality industry experiencing wage theft, discrimination, harassment, and other employment issues in Central Florida. She is a graduate of Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University College of Law.

Kristin Tellis will provide legal services and advocacy in the “Little Haiti” neighborhood of Miami for residents, businesses and other stakeholders to protect their interests in the gentrification of their community. Tellis is a graduate of the Florida State University College of Law.

Jordan Chisolm will provide free transactional legal services to minority and immigrant entrepreneurs in low-income Miami neighborhoods to strengthen community revitalization. He is a graduate of New York University School of Law.

Disaster Recovery Legal Corps Fellows Jean-Luc Adrien, Delmarie Alicea, Latasha Cooper

Taylor E. Greenberg will provide direct legal representation, create a community-wide task force, and train attorneys to improve outcomes for teenagers in group home foster care in Hillsborough County. Greenberg is a graduate of Stetson University College of Law. Greenberg is funded by Greenberg Traurig and The Florida Bar Foundation.

Anne Kanzow works to decrease the number of children with disabilities in rural areas entering the school-to-prison pipeline by engaging advocates and developing educational materials for students, parents and the community. Kanzow is a graduate of Stetson University College of Law. She is funded by the Foundation through its Bank of America grant program.

Joseph E. Cordova, M.A. will serve immigrant and migrant worker families by using education, outreach, policy advocacy and community lawyering to increase community power, socioeconomic opportunities and legal services. Cordova is a graduate of the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He is funded by the Foundation through its Bank of America grant program

In Liberty City, a historically black neighborhood in Miami with significant poverty, Emenike will work to improve housing stability by representing tenants facing eviction and enforcing their right to safe and habitable housing. Teiya Emenike is a graduate of the University of Miami School of Law. She is funded by the Foundation through its Bank of America grant program

In South Florida, which is considered a hot spot for human trafficking, Victoria Sexton will conduct a community needs assessment and advocate for trafficking survivors by providing holistic direct civil legal services. In May 2019, Sexton is expected to graduate from Georgetown University Law Center.

Viviana Bonilla Lopez will protect and restore the civil rights of people with disabilities in Miami-Dade County by expanding supported decision making as an alternative to guardianship in the 11th Judicial Circuit. Lopez graduated from New York University School of Law in 2017.

Jackie Ebert will provide legal training, technical assistance and representation to chronically homeless women and children to remove legal barriers to housing stability, self sufficiency and self determination. Ebert graduated from Harvard Law School in 2018.

Jon Glover will create and manage a veterans outreach program in the Tampa Bay area to assist veterans and dependents on the process and requirements for removing barriers to benefits by providing pro bono legal aid services. Glover is expected to graduate from Stetson College of Law in May 2019. He is jointly funded by Greenberg Traurig and the Foundation.

In Broward County, Brittany Brooks will provide trauma-informed civil legal services and outreach to assist female veterans reintegrate into civilian life and access resources vital to their financial and medical security. Brooks graduated from Florida International University College of Law in 2020.

Anne Piervil will provide direct legal services through a Medical Legal Partnership with a community health clinic serving Haitian farmworkers in Central Florida to improve workrelated social determinants of health. Piervil graduated from Mississippi College School of Law in 2019.

Daniela Donoso will create a community-connected immigration law program to serve immigrants who are low-income and/or victims of crime. She will establish client, case, outreach, and education protocols, procedures & resources for LSNF staff. Donoso graduateed from Florida State University College of Law in 2020. Donoso is jointly sponsored by Greenberg Traurig and the Foundation.

Melissa Lipnick will engage in individual and systemic advocacy to expand access and address barriers to Medicaid home health care to enable more low-income Florida seniors to stay safely at home and out of nursing homes. The pandemic has exacerbated the need for these services. Lipnick graduated from the University of Miami School of Law.

Janielle McPhail will provide holistic legal services for the veteran population in rural Ocala to create systemic change and offer stability. The project will use outreach, pro bono services and advocacy to increase public benefits and veteran benefits. McPhail graduated from the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

Oliver Telusma’s fellowship is designed to prevent COVID-fueled evictions of residential renters and small businesses at high rish of displacement in South Florida through direct legal services, policy advocacy and movement lawyering. Telusma graduated from Florida A&M University School of Law.

Vanessa Coe – Florida Legal Services, Migrant Farmworker Justice Project, Lake Worth. Represent H-2B guestworkers in employment disputes in the hospitality, landscaping, carnival and horse-racing industries.

Extraordinary Need Grant to support disabled attorney