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Bio highlights: Allison joined Legal Aid of North Carolina as Director of Pro Bono Programs in 2023. She worked as Director of Pro Bono Initiatives at UNC School of Law from 2016-2023, where she also served as an adjunct professor. She began her career as an attorney at North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, Inc., following her graduation from UNC School of Law in 2009. 

Resident of: Durham, NC

Native of: Greenville, SC

Fun fact: Loves creative projects and has taken courses in cake decorating and pottery.

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.

Resident of: Raleigh, NC

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.

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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.

Resident of: Charlotte, NC

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!

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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.

Resident and native of: Rural Orange and Alamance counties, NC

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

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Bio highlights: Elizabeth joined our Pro Bono Programs team as a staff attorney in 2021. She has been an attorney with Legal Aid since 1998, serving in our Wilson office until 2017, when she joined our Helpline, in Raleigh. She earned her JD from UNC Law in 1997 and passed the NC bar later that year.

Resident of: Wilson, NC 

Native of: Ohio 

Fun fact: Loves to travel. Favorite trips are a safari in Tanzania in 2011, Morocco in 2014, and Vietnam and Cambodia in 2019.

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Bio highlights: Grant joined Legal Aid of North Carolina in 2024 as a Case Coordinator on our Pro Bono Programs team. He earned his bachelor’s in political science and communications, with a minor in conflict management, from UNC Chapel Hill in 2024. During his junior and senior years, he worked for the Carolina Center for Public Service on its Engagement Week project, an annual, week-long celebration of research institutions and communities working together to improve the lives of residents. Between his junior and senior years, he interned with the NC Division of Juvenile Justice, where he helped children who had committed criminal acts avoid jail time and further involvement with the justice system. “The legal system can seem big and scary to people unfamiliar with it,” said Grant. “I enjoy helping people navigate the system and relieving them of that fear.”

Resident of: Carrboro, NC

Native of: Wilmington, NC

Fun fact: Can bend his thumbs backwards to touch his wrists

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Bio highlights: Leslie joined Legal Aid in 2016 as a paralegal with The Child’s Advocate, one of our special projects. She previously worked with special populations in the Wake Co. School System and privately. She has a paralegal certificate from Meredith College and a bachelor’s from Montclair State in New Jersey.

Resident of: Garner, NC 

Native of: Parsippany, NJ 

Fun fact: Corgi lover 

Bio highlights: Kemiyah joined Legal Aid of North Carolina in 2024 as a Case Coordinator on our Pro Bono Programs team. Kemiyah’s previous experience includes serving as a legal file clerk for Moore & Van Allen, where she focused on corporate law, and serving as a paralegal for the McAdoo Law Group, where she focused on family law and litigation. She earned her bachelor’s in criminal justice from Eastern Kentucky University, and she sees law school in her future. 

As to why she is pursuing a career in law, she says, “I have a philanthropic mindset. I find joy and purpose in helping others, especially in my own community. I believe we all have to do our part to make the world a better place. When my time ends, I want to look back and be proud of what I accomplished and what side of history I was on.” 

Kemiyah is a devoted mother to her daughter, Kimora, born in 2023. 

Resident of: Charlotte, NC 

Native of: Lexington, KY 

Fun fact: I study astrology/planetary alignments and zodiac signs for fun. 

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Bio highlights: Brionna joined Legal Aid as a case coordinator for our Pro Bono Programs team in 2022. She earned her bachelor’s in Social Work from Austin Peay State University, in Tennessee, in 2020. During college, she interned as a social worker at Sigma Health Services, in Raleigh.

Resident of: Raleigh, NC 

Native of: Memphis, TN 

Fun fact: Loves painting, drawing and interior decorating

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Bio highlights: Tranisha joined Legal Aid NC as a case coordinator on our Pro Bono Programs team in August 2023. She works exclusively on our Heir Property Pro Bono Project. Tranisha is a licensed realtor who holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology and is currently working on a second master’s in clinical mental health counseling.

Resident and native of: Durham, NC

Fun fact: Wants to one day open a community counseling and housing center.

Bio highlights: Avery Marsh joined Legal Aid of North Carolina in August 2024 as a case coordinator on our Pro Bono Programs team. She has a paralegal certificate and her bachelor’s from UNC Chapel Hill. She has worked as a web developer and has a certificate in artificial intelligence from Stanford University. Her attraction to the law stems from her desire to make a difference. “I’m looking for an industry where helping people is a very clear outcome of what I’m doing,” she says. “Legal Aid NC is a phenomenal place to be. We are helping people with pressing personal problems.”

Resident of: Raleigh, NC

Native of: Chapel Hill, NC

Fun fact:  Avery enjoys competing at fighting game tournaments.

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Bio highlights: Sean joined our Pro Bono Programs team as communications manager in 2022. He joined Legal Aid in 2012, serving as public relations director until 2022. He previously worked for the Legal Services Corporation, in Washington, D.C., from 2003-2011. He earned his bachelor’s in Political Science from Mary Washington College, in Virginia, in 2003.

Resident of: Durham, NC 

Native of: Annandale, VA 

Fun fact: Loves black cats and has a collection of black-cat trinkets from around the world.