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Carey Kersten

As AVLF's Marketing Director, Carey Kersten manages the organization's events, communications, branding, and PR. A native of South Texas, she has lived in Atlanta since 2009. Carey holds Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in English and Technical Communications from Texas State University, and she has over 15 years of business development, event planning, and marketing experience. She loves to read, travel, and spend time with her husband, former AVLF Board of Directors President Avi Stadler, and their adorable baby daughter.

AVLF Film-Screening Addresses Middle-Class Struggles With Poverty

Published: August 26, 2014   |   No Comments  |  Read more

by Meredith Hobbs, Daily Report (Reprinted with permission from the Daily Report. Original article can be found here.)

If you are reading this, it’s unlikely that you are poor. The Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation wants to raise consciousness and start a conversation in the local legal community about what poverty in America looks like today.

Marty Ellin Honored as 2014 Gate City Bar Hall of Fame Inductee

Published: July 29, 2014   |   No Comments  |  Read more

There are so many reasons why we are proud to work at AVLF, the most obvious of which is our association with our fearless leader, Marty Ellin. Marty is a living example of the fight for justice on behalf of Atlanta’s poorest residents, and he inspires us on a daily basis. We are thrilled to announce that our friends at the Gate City Bar Association feel the same way about Marty – they are inducting him into their Hall of Fame.