The Vermont Bar Foundation raises money to support the work of the Poverty Law Fellow. The Poverty Law Fellowship is a two-year, highly competitive program that provides a gifted early-career attorney an opportunity to concentrate on challenges related to access to justice. The work of the Fellows has improved the lives of hundreds of Vermont families and individuals. The work of our Poverty Law Fellows is desperately needed, and they are changing lives and making a strong impact throughout Vermont. Emily Kenyon, our most recent Poverty Law Fellow, provided legal services to Vermont’s low-wage workers. Over the course of her fellowship, Emily focused on four different areas of employment law: wage and hour, employment discrimination, unemployment insurance benefits, and expungement/sealing of criminal records. In each area, she provided advice or representation to clients that allowed them to assert their rights, increase their economic opportunities, and/or access benefits to which they were entitled. In total, she provided advice or representation to over 115 clients. Maya Tsukazaki, our current Poverty Law Fellow, is working with the Vermont Law School's Immigrant Assistance Project, providing direct legal services to the Vermont immigrant community. Through her fellowship, Maya seeks to provide immigration support for an increasingly large proportion of the Vermont workforce: noncitizen workers, students, and other recent arrived people. Maya’s immigration interventions will put our noncitizen workforce on a pathway to permanency that promotes family unity, community stability, and, in turn, community safety.