Vermont Legal Aid, Inc.
Emma Riggs currently serves as a Health Care Advocate at Vermont Legal Aid, Inc., a position held since October 2020. Prior to this role, Emma worked as a Medical Receptionist at Vermont Gynecology from November 2018 to October 2020 and gained experience as a Sexual Violence Prevention & Advocacy Intern at Connecticut College between August 2017 and May 2018. Emma also completed an internship in Data and Evaluation at Vermont Works for Women in the summer of 2017. Emma Riggs holds a Bachelor's degree in Gender and Women's Studies and Mathematics from Connecticut College, earned in 2018.
Vermont Legal Aid, Inc.
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Vermont Legal Aid helps to ensure that one of the founding principles of this country remains alive: justice for all, not just for the few who can afford it. We provide free civil legal services to people throughout Vermont, primarily those with low incomes or who meet the income and eligibility guidelines for each of our projects: Disability Law Project Elder Law Project Office of the Health Care Advocate Housing Discrimination Law Project Long Term Care Ombudsman Project Mental Health Law Project Poverty Law Project We work to address the causes of poverty, discrimination and inequality through legal representation, community education, public policy and legislative advocacy. Our Commitment to Diversity Vermont Legal Aid believes that diversity produces a more dynamic, creative, and thoughtful community. We support diversity of thought, culture, and life experience among our staff and our community. We believe that everyone in Vermont should have equal and fair access to legal services. We work hard to be accessible, welcoming and to provide some level of legal services to as many as we can. We are dedicated to helping those who face undue barriers to participation in the U.S. legal system, who are not familiar with the legal system, and/or whose first language is not English.