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Bio highlights: Lauren Ashley joined our Pro Bono Programs team as a staff attorney in 2025. Working from our Asheville office, she focuses primarily on our efforts to coordinate pro bono services for survivors of Hurricane Helene.

“As a resident of Asheville,” Lauren Ashley said, “I’m not only an advocate for Helene survivors, but I also experienced this disaster firsthand. I’ve witnessed the immense need for legal assistance in communities throughout Western North Carolina, and I feel fortunate for the opportunity to use my experience and skills to help meet those needs.”

Originally from Georgia, Lauren Ashley earned her J.D. from Mercer University in Macon and worked as a civil litigation attorney until relocating to Asheville in 2019. Since becoming licensed in North Carolina, her practice has focused on real estate law and estate planning & administration.

Works from: Asheville

Resident of: Asheville

Native of: Augusta, GA

Fun fact: When I’m not working, you can find me wading through mountain streams in search of native brook trout or exploring the woods with my fiancé and our two heelers, Miles and Blue, who take their roles as trail blazers very seriously.

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Bio highlights: While Erin’s day-to-day work is focused on housing and family law cases in our Central Carolina office in Carrboro, she also manages our private attorney contracts program. She earned her JD from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1997.

Works from: Carrboro

Resident and native of: Rural Orange and Alamance counties

Fun fact: Loves trails – on foot or horseback – especially in the fall and early spring. 

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Bio highlights: Marquita Pittman became the Raleigh Community Engagement Manager at Legal Aid of North Carolina in 2025. Her role includes serving as a supervising attorney on our Pro Bono Programs team, where she oversees pro bono efforts in the Raleigh area. Marquita joined Legal Aid NC in 2019, serving as a domestic violence staff attorney in our Raleigh field office until assuming her new role as Community Engagement Manager. Marquita received her JD from Cooley Law School in Michigan and her bachelor’s in political science from Shaw University in Raleigh.

Works from: Raleigh

Resident of: Raleigh

Native of: Chicago, IL

Fun fact: One of my favorite things to do is to travel. My goal is to visit everywhere!

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Bio highlights: Hannah joined our Pro Bono Programs team as a supervising attorney in 2023. She also serves as the Community Engagement Manager for the Charlotte office. She’s been with Legal Aid of North Carolina since 2016, serving first as a staff attorney and then a supervising attorney in the Charlotte office Housing Unit. She earned her JD from Georgetown Law and her bachelor’s from Duke University.

Works from: Charlotte

Resident of: Charlotte

Native of: Chicago, IL

Fun fact: Camped out all four years of college in Krzyzewskiville to attend the Duke-UNC basketball games in Cameron Indoor Stadium. Go Blue Devils!

Bio highlights: Ashley joined our Pro Bono Programs team as a supervising attorney in 2024. She previously served as a domestic violence staff attorney in our Durham office’s satellite office in Henderson, a position she assumed in 2023. This is Ashley’s second stint with Legal Aid NC. She first joined us in 2018 as a domestic violence staff attorney in our Winston-Salem office, transferring to our Durham office shortly thereafter. From 2020 to 2022, she served as an Equal Opportunity and Compliance Coordinator in Duke University’s Office for Institutional Equity. Before joining us in 2018, she worked in private practice after receiving her JD from North Carolina Central University School of Law in 2016. She earned her bachelor’s in criminal justice from Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama.

Works from: Raleigh

Resident of: Raleigh

Native of: Lisman, AL

Fun fact: Has won multiple national beauty pageant titles while promoting her domestic violence awareness and prevention platform, and serves as a Lifetime Queen of the American Beauties Plus Pageant.