SPEAKER

Lam Nguyen Ho, JD

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About the Speaker: Lam Nguyen Ho is the Executive Director of Beyond Legal Aid (Beyond). Its model, "community activism lawyering," shifts the power of the law into the hands of impacted communities by partnering with them to create community-located, community-operated, and community-directed “activism-law programs.” Beyond’s radical network of community programs unites lawyers and activists to brings free legal services to over 4000 people annually, including undocumented immigrants, sex workers, day laborers, and activists, while impacting thousands more through its support of grassroots organizing, advocacy, and activism. Lam graduated from Harvard Law School and holds additional graduate degrees from Brown University and Oxford University. He was previously Chairperson of the Illinois HIV/AIDS Response Review Panel and served on the boards of the Community Law Project and Vietnamese Association of Illinois.