Angelik Edmonds

University of California President's Public Service Legal Fellow

Angelik is a UC President’s Public Service Legal Fellow with AVLF, where she works in both the Safe and Stable Families and Safe and Stable Homes projects. For the first half of her fellowship, she is focusing on domestic violence issues.

Angelik graduated from Winston-Salem State University magna cum laude with a B.A. in Mass Communications: Journalism. Angelik attended UCLA School of Law and received a specialization in critical race studies, a program designed to train public interest attorneys using an intersectional, client-centered advocacy approach. During law school, she clerked at the California Department of Justice, Attorney General’s Office Civil Rights Department, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Consumer Protection Division, and the Georgia Public Defender Standards Council, Appellate Division. Angelik’s practice areas of interest include Education Law, housing, criminal justice/policing reform and poverty law generally, particularly how various systems work together to create systemic and generational poverty and oppression for vulnerable communities of color.