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Legal Aid Executive Director Vikram Swaruup was interviewed by Law360: "What's inspired my entire career trajectory is my personal experiences of witnessing discrimination, harassment and violence against the communities that I'm a part of."

Feature in Washington Lawyer Magazine about Legal Aid's new Executive Director, Vikram Swaruup

Coverage in DCist featured Legal Aid's Vikram Swaruup and former client Melissa Chapman: “Without DC Legal Aid, a lot of people would be left out to dry and would have no voice,” she says. Access to free civil legal services, she adds, “gives people a voice, and makes sure that they’re not railroaded or bullied.”

Washington Informer coverage of the 2023 Servant of Justice Awards Dinner

Testimony from Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was featured in The Washington Post: "To me, this means DCHA is sending a clear message with its policy: It is more interested in clearing its waitlist and making itself look good than actually housing people."

Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was quoted in DCist in an article about the D.C. Housing Authority reopening its waitlist: "...the public housing waitlist is stagnant because units have been sitting dilapidated and vacant. That’s part of my frustration – there is a mismatch between what they’re doing and what they’re trying to solve. That isn’t and wasn’t what the problem with the waitlist was.”

Legal Aid's June Lee was quoted in DCist's coverage of advocacy efforts at the D.C. Council: “It’s kind of premised on the idea that if you want to be pro-immigrant, you also want to be anti-poverty, you want to be anti-discrimination.”

Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was quoted in The Washington Post on D.C. Housing Authority overpayments to landlords: “It was a problem that was raised, recognized and anytime somebody tried to address it, it seems like they were kind of hushed."

Legal Aid's Amanda Korber was quoted in Greater Greater Washington's coverage of HUD's D.C. Housing Authorty audit.