Alana Greer

Co-Founder of Community Justice Project
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The Leader

Alana Greer is passionate about lifting up the voices of the community members she works with and using her legal and analytic skills to support grassroots movements seeking to dismantle structural racism and inequality. Prior to co-founding Community Justice Project, she was a staff attorney at Florida Legal Services and Advancement Project in Washington, DC, where she worked with youth and parent leaders across the nation fighting to end the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Originally from Miami, Alana left Florida to attend Boston College and Harvard Law School, where she was a student attorney at the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, and returned home to support youth organizing that arose after the killing of Trayvon Martin.

Recent Wins

Received a grant from Time's Up Legal Defense Fund
Became a Social Venture Partners Miami Investee (2018)

The Bold Idea

Support organizing for racial justice and human rights with innovative legal work

The organization

Community Justice Project believes lawyers must ground their legal advocacy in community-based efforts and that lasting change can only occur when led by an organized and informed community. CJP believes well-trained legal advocates should be available to all people regardless of economic status, and to that end they are committed to training lawyers to be more aware of and skilled in addressing the needs of indigent communities and providing desperately-needed legal services to low-income and minority communities in the areas of housing, employment, public benefits, immigration, and community economic development.