CCBA Feature
Legal Aid of Southeastern PA Celebrates 20+ Years of Service at Fête for Justice! 4 Freedoms, 4 Counties, 4 Justice! Above: Trapeta B. Mayson, 2020-21 Philadelphia Poet Laureate, shares her healing words of verse in a reading of two poems, “In This Season” and “Superhero.” | Photo by Hitched Productions.
By Marion Hoffman Fraley Communications Director Legal Aid of Southeastern PA
and C. Shawn Boehringer, LASP Executive Director, both shared brief remarks. Honorees based primarily in Chester County included:
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egal Aid of Southeastern PA celebrated 20+ years as a regional civil legal aid provider at the Fête for Justice on May 19. THANK YOU to the Chester County Bar Association, CCBA members, and all sponsors and friends who supported and joined us at Normandy Farm, Blue Bell for this milestone. Keynote Speaker Reuben Jonathan Miller, Sociologist, University of Chicago assistant professor and author of Halfway Home: Race, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration, challenged attendees to consider the disproportionate impact of mass incarceration on Black and Brown people. Trapeta B. Mayson, 2020-21 Philadelphia Poet Laureate, shared healing words of verse, including “In This Season” and “Superhero.” And we celebrated 47 Honorees, whose work collectively paved the way for LASP’s service across 20+ years in Chester, Bucks, Delaware and Montgomery counties. William L. Baldwin, 2020-22 LASP Board President and Delaware County Bar Association Executive Director, 30 | New Matter
•W illiam J. Gallagher, a longtime member of the LASP Board of Directors. He was Board President from 201618, during the Executive Director recruitment search. He is also a member of CCBA’s Pro Bono Committee and Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Legal Services to the Public Committee. •E leonor “Ellie” Glasco, who joined Legal Aid of Chester County in October 1973 as a bilingual Paralegal. She spent her 44-year career advocating for people seeking public benefits. Ellie was key to the Don’t Borrow Trouble campaign in Chester County while working for Community Impact Legal Services. She retired from LASP in April 2017. •R achel Housman, LASP Chester County Managing Attorney from 2001-present. Rachel joined Bucks County Legal Aid Society as Staff Attorney in 1995 and was based in the Bristol Office. She then served as Managing Attorney of the Doylestown Office from 1996-2001 until moving to the West Chester office at the time of the merger.
