About Us
- Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Atlanta (formerly Asian American Legal Advocacy Center or AALAC) is the first non-profit law center dedicated to Asian immigrants and refugees (“Asian Americans”) in the Southeast.
Our goal is to engage, educate and empower under-represented Asian Americans to greater civic participation.
We are one of five independent organizations that make up the national Asian Americans Advancing Justice. Together with our affiliates in Chicago, DC, Los Angeles and San Francisco, we bring more than 100 years of collective experience in addressing the civil rights issues faced by Asian Americans and other vulnerable and under served communities.
- We design policy rooted in the South. We publish public policy analyses and know-your-rights education primarily focused on local and regional issues, and translate most of our work into Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese. Our key issue areas are immigration, education and voting rights.
- We are a leader in immigrant civic engagement work. We register voters year-round; provide assistance and capacity to new immigrant and refugee leaders; train and organize hundreds of volunteers to work with us in the field to build a New American electorate. When underrepresented communities are active in civic life the common good is strengthened for everyone.
- We defend the rights of people and communities. AAAJ-Atlanta is the first nonprofit law center dedicated to protecting and promoting the civil, social and economic rights of Asian immigrants and refugees in the South. We take on select campaigns or lawsuits that expose or challenge the people, policies and systems that violate the rights of immigrants and refugees.
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