Pisgah Legal Services
Michael McDonald is the Managing Director of the WNC Health and Economic Opportunity Program at Pisgah Legal Services. Prior to this role, Michael spent 10 years at Western Carolina University in the Department of Political Science & Public Affairs. Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science & Economics from Davidson College and a Doctor of Philosophy in Government & Politics from the University of Maryland.
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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.