Her Justice
Alondra Reyes is an experienced professional in the legal and nonprofit sectors, currently serving as the Executive Assistant and Coordinator of Strategic Initiatives at Alondra's Justice since October 2022. Prior roles include Executive Assistant at Federal Defenders of New York Inc., where Alondra held the position of Chief Paralegal from June 2019 to July 2022, overseeing a team of paralegals and interns while managing a caseload of 40-50 clients. Alondra has also contributed significantly to diversity and inclusion initiatives and has experience in legal advocacy through a Civil Legal Advocate Intern role at The Bronx Defenders. Earlier work as an AmeriCorps Member with City Year involved supporting students' academic and social-emotional development in high-need schools. Alondra holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Gender Studies from Mount Holyoke College.
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Her Justice
Her Justice stands with women living in poverty in New York City by recruiting and mentoring volunteer lawyers to provide free legal help to address individual and systemic legal barriers. Every day, thousands of women throughout New York City fear going to work because they don’t have an order of protection to prevent their abusive partners from stalking them. They worry about how to feed and clothe their children without the child support they deserve. Undocumented mothers are terrified that they will be deported and never see their children again because their batterers prevent them from gaining legal residency. With barely enough money for life’s basic necessities, hiring an attorney is not an option. Women facing violence at home or threats to their children’s lives have immediate, urgent legal needs, and they deserve competent representation regardless of their ability to pay. Her Justice is one of the few places in New York City where women can turn to find free matrimonial, family and immigration legal services. We recruit our volunteer attorneys from major law firms and small borough-based practices. With the support of Her Justice's expert legal staff, they go into court and fight for things that matter: protection from abuse, financial support, and orders granting child custody and divorce that replace fear with hope.