History
NCLAWater is rooted in years of water affordability work by the People’s Water Board Coalition. In June, 2015, the People’s Water Board, Michigan Welfare Rights Organization, and the Lyda Pro Bono Lawyers Committee convened an international meeting in Detroit. The convening was attended by over 400 participants representing over 22 states of the United States, and 9 other countries. During the convening, the Lyda Pro Bono Lawyers Committee, and other NGOs, sponsored a meeting of advocates working on water and environmental justice in the United States. The convening set out an agenda for creating change at the national level (national legislation), state and local activism, to redress the injustices in the U.S. NCLAWater is a working group of lawyers and advocates who undertook the task of drafting model policy and legislation for use at the local, state and national levels.
Immediately following the convening, the National Coalition for Legislation on Affordable Water (NCLAWater) was created to adopt Federal and state legislation establishing affordable water and sanitation services, ensuring that every person has access to safe, affordable water and sanitation. NCLAWater is a coalition with co-coordinators representing an experienced track record of advocacy, litigation, research and reporting, and organizing at grass roots, local, state and national levels.
Alice Jennings
Co-Coordinator
Immediately following the convening, the National Coalition for Legislation on Affordable Water (NCLAWater) was created to adopt Federal and state legislation establishing affordable water and sanitation services, ensuring that every person has access to safe, affordable water and sanitation. NCLAWater is a coalition with co-coordinators representing an experienced track record of advocacy, litigation, research and reporting, and organizing at grass roots, local, state and national levels.
Patricia Jones
Co-Coordinator
Patricia Jones is senior program lead for the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee’s Human Right to Water. She has worked on projects for the United Nations, UNESCO, governments, and with international human rights institutions.
Monique Lin-Luse
Co-Coordinator
Monique Lin-Luse is Assistant Counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund. Monique has over ten years of advocacy, organizing, and educator experience in youth development, education access, social justice, and civil rights. She has focused her work on removing barriers to educational success for all students and ending the criminalization of youth of color. Monique is a proponent of community led interventions that utilizes multiple forms of advocacy to eliminate racial, gender and other disparities in education, housing, and economic opportunities.
Prior to joining LDF, Monique was the ninth Sol and Helen Zubrow Fellow in Children’s Law at the Juvenile Law Center of Philadelphia, where she worked on juvenile justice and child welfare system reform on the national level and in Pennsylvania. While at the Juvenile Law Center, she worked on ensuring constitutional protections for youth through impact litigation, direct representation, legislative advocacy and training child welfare and juvenile justice professionals.
Monique received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a Public Interest Law Scholar and a recipient of the Juvenile Justice Clinic Award. Monique also has a Masters in Secondary Social Studies Education and taught middle and high school students in New York City as a New York City Teaching Fellow. She graduated with high honors from the University of Michigan Residential College with a B.A. in Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies.
Sylvia Orduño
Sylvia Orduño
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Briana
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