Pisgah Legal Services
Jaclyn Kiger has extensive experience in legal and social services, currently serving as the Executive Director, Chief Operations Officer, Managing Attorney, and previously as a Staff Attorney at Pisgah Legal Services since November 2010. Prior to this role, Jaclyn worked as a Social Worker at Jewish Family & Career Services from July 2005 to April 2010. Educational qualifications include a Juris Doctor from Atlanta's John Marshall Law School (2010), a Master of Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2005), and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Duquesne University (2000).
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Pisgah Legal Services
Our Mission: To pursue justice by providing legal assistance and advocacy to help low-income people in Western North Carolina meet their basic needs and improve their lives. What We Do: Pisgah Legal Services is an innovative, responsive nonprofit law firm founded in 1978 that: - provides free civil legal aid to very low-income people; - helps more than 9,200 of the most vulnerable people in our communities annually to meet urgent needs; - partners with dozens of other agencies to make sustainable change for people in crisis; - coordinates the pro bono services of more than 280 area attorneys; - improves systems and policies that impact the lives of thousands of low-income people. PLS' primary service area includes six counties: Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, Polk, Rutherford, and Transylvania Counties. We provide limited services in a total of seventeen Western North Carolina counties.