Students in Geoffrey Fattah’s intermediate reporting class covered pro bono legal organizations spring semester 2009. Students learned about the justice system and organizations that offer free and low-cost legal help for people who are disabled, financially disadvantaged, or are victims of domestic abuse. Their stories include profiles of women who are trying to re-build their lives after escaping violent relationships, a woman who is hearing and visually impaired trying to find her voice as a victim in the court system and the mother of an autistic child trying to spread awareness of her son’s condition within the public school system.

Back row, from left: Tyler Cobb; Madison Rice; Michelle Schmitt; Elizabeth Pezqueda; Patrick Harrington; Jed Layton; Geoffrey Fattah. Front row, from left: Emily A. Showgren; Madison Murphy; Danielle Murphy; Paige Kasteler. Photo by Tyler Cobb.

Student-journalists were: Tyler Cobb; Patrick Harrington; Paige Kasteler; Jed Layton; Danielle Murphy; Madison Murphy; Elizabeth Pezqueda; Madison Rice; Michelle Schmitt; Emily A. Showgren.

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