Happy Women's History Month! Legal Aid Chicago's own Kathryn Socha shares her work on the women veterans project.

Episode 10 Attorney Myka Held from Children and Family Services chats with Nubia about Legal Aid Chicago's CLASP project.

Michelle Weinberg of Legal Aid Chicago's consumer practice group chats about consumer law in Chicago and the work she does supporting and advocating for seniors.

In this episode of Legal Aid Matters, Lisa Palumbo director of our Immigrants and Workers Rights Practice Group interviews our show's host Nubia Willman.

The Legal Aid Chicago (formerly LAF) Ombudsman project advocates for senior citizens living in assisted living and skilled nursing facilities. Listen as Nubia, Robert, and Suzanne discuss the challenges low-income seniors face when they require longterm care as well as strategies to prepare for your own family's needs.

In honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, this October Caitlin Cervenka of Legal Aid Chicago's Children and Families Practice Group joins Nubia in conversation for this episode. They discuss the strategies Caitlin and her colleagues employ to advocate for survivors of violence in child custody and divorce proceedings how low-income survivors experience violence differently than others and as always why legal aid matters to them.

Regina Hernandez is a staff attorney with Legal Aid Chicago's (formerly LAF) volunteer services unit where she recruits and manages volunteers to stretch our services to as many clients as possible. She also runs our community legal clinics where several times a month we serve large numbers of people with free walk-in meetings with attorneys who advise on legal problems in the neighborhoods our clients call home. In their conversation, Nubia and Regina talk about the successes and challenges of the clinic model the great lengths Regina and her colleagues go to to ensure as many people as possible receive Legal Aid Chicago's help and how we can all work together to help close the justice gap.

In this episode, Nubia sits down with her colleague within Legal Aid Chicago's (Formerly LAF) Immigrants and Workers rights Practice Group, Jon Delozano, whose work focuses on removing legal barriers that prevent low-wage workers from getting or keeping a job. He and Nubia discuss the challenges of proving workplace discrimination and how the MeToo movement has affected his work on behalf of women who suffer sexual harassment in the workplace.

National Teachers Academy NTA is a high-performing Level1 elementary school on Chicago's near south side serving students who are80 African American and 80 low income In February Chicago Public School approved a plan to close NTA and convert the campus into a new high school despite the schools remarkable success and despite the passionate protest of parents and students at community meetingsAttorneys at LAF and ChicagoLawyers Committee For Civil Rights CLC have partnered to represent students parents and community groups in a lawsuit to halt the closure of NTA Nubiasits down with Ashley Fretthold and Kate Gladson of LAFs Education Law project as well as Candace Moore of CLC to talk about the lawsuit and the importance of preserving high-performing public schools learn more about NTA by visiting WeAreNTAcom or by following them on Twitter WeAreNTARead the University of Chicago study about the 2013 CPSclosures that Ashley mentionsFollowLAF on Facebook on Twitter ChicagoLAF and on Instagram lafchicagoDont forget to subscribe to the show

In today's episode, we hear from Larry Wood, Director of Legal Aid Chicago's (formerly LAF) Housing Practice Group. Larry has spent the last 28 years at Legal Aid Chicago and in that time has become a leading expert on housing-related issues that affect people in poverty, especially those residing in public housing. Nubia and Larry's conversation touches on Matthew Desmond's Pulitzer prize-winning book "Evicted: How Housing Instability Causes Poverty" and how Legal Aid Chicago intervenes to prevent homelessness by stopping unfair evictions. Larry, who also happens to be most decorated New Yorker caption contest winner of all time, also shares a little advice for aspiring humorists.