In May, our whole team attended the 2025 ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference in San Francisco, CA. Community justice workers were the talk of the town! Our growing community was represented across several sessions, including:

• “Developing Training Credentials & Standards for the Future of Justice: Ascendium and Frontline Justice’s Community Justice Worker National Task Force”
• “Navigating Indigenous Advocacy: Resources for Representing Native American Clients”“Collaborative Models for Pro-Bono Engagement and Empowering Librarians to Address Legal Inequities”
• Building & Sustaining Effective Research Partnerships”,
• “Technology and Non-Lawyer Solutions to the Access to Justice Crisis”
• “Community Justice Workers: Insights from Emerging Research in Alaska and Beyond”
• “Upstreaming Justice: Non-Attorney Interventions and Community-Based Solutions to Civil Legal Gaps

In addition, we hosted a hands-on community justice worker post-conference workshop, where we co-designed community justice work solutions and discussed new initiatives and strategies, like Groundwork! 

A huge thank you to ABA/NLADA for all the ways they support the justice worker movement!