Thursday, October 25, 2012

La Raza Hosts Protect the Vote Training @ VCL

Protect the Vote Training
Monday, Oct. 29, 2012, 6 p.m.
Ventura College of Law
4475 Market Street
Ventura CA 93003

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Training will be provided by Protect the Vote.
Special thanks to the Campaigns of Hannah-Beth Jackson and Carmen Ramirez.





















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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Tickets Available: Education Foundation Scholarship Dinner Oct 19


Tickets are still available for this year's Scholarship dinner, which will be held on October 19th, 2012 at the Courtyard by Marriott in Oxnard. (Tickets: $65 - Payment by Credit Card will be Available at Event)

Michael Farrell, well-known for his role as BJ Hunnicutt in the hit series M*A*S*H is this year's Keynote Speaker and awardee of the President’s Award for his dedication and commitment to increasing awareness of social and political issues concerning human and civil rights in this Country and across the world.

We will honor Carmen Ramirez with the Alice McGrath Warrior for Justice Award for her commitment to the bettering of our community and her history of service to legal aid programs across the State and as former coordinator of the Ventura County Superior Court Legal Self Help Access Center providing assistance to self-represented parties in our County.

We will also honor Dien Le with the Access to Justice Award for his representation of our legal community as the 2012 President of the Ventura County Bar Association and his outstanding work in creating the Diversity Bar Alliance dedicated to promoting diversity in the legal profession and on the bench while encouraging collaboration among the minority legal sections.

Please distribute this flyer to anyone that you believe may be interested in atttending. I have also attached hereto the Sponsorship Packet. If you, or anyone that you know, is interested in being a sponsor for our event, please send this to them and have them contact me or Rebeca Mendoza if they have any questions. Thank you all for your continued support for our organization and the Education Foundation of the VC MABA, Inc.

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Interested in Sponsoring the Education Foundation of the VC MABA, Inc.’s Scholarship Dinner?
For more details please refer to our post.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Ventura County Diversity Bar Alliance Introduced in Ventura County Star Blog


Jill Friedman, Esq., President of the WLVC, and member of VCMABA, was interviewed by Ventura County Star about the VCDBA and their meeting last week with Mr. Josh Groban, Gov. Jerry Brown's advisor for Policy and Appointments .  

Friedman explained that the "meeting was a result of our written request to the Governor earlier this year."

Diversity Bar Alliance was formed in January, and its mission is for the advancement and empowerment of women, people of color, and those historically underrepresented and disenfranchised in the legal profession, through education and advocacy in order to promote equal justice for our community and achieve excellence and diversity in our legal profession.

For the full article click here.