From the Board
We asked The Atlanta Bar Association Board "What is
one of your favorite places to do community service?"
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Gino Brodgon, Jr., The Brogdon Firm
My favorite place to do community service is Habitat for Humanity. I
love this organization because you get to work with the people who
will be living in the house you are helping build. The ability to engage
and work hard with the recipient of the service is incredibly reward-
ing and makes the experience extremely personal and memorable.
Caren Cloud, Truancy Intervention Project Georgia
My favorite place to do community service: a metro area school,
working directly with students or improving school grounds.
Lisa K. Liang, Hon. Susan E. Edlein, State Court of Fulton County
I hadn’t thought about the collateral consequences of incarceration
until I got involved with Foreverfamily. Foreverfamily, led by attorney
Sandra Barnhill for 30 years now, surrounds children with an incarcer-
ated parent, with the love of family. A component of Ff is to help
maintain the bond between the children and their incarcerated parent
by taking them monthly to visit their parent. I am going again on a
trip on November 11 – please join me or contact Ff directly through
foreverfam.org or [email protected].
Melissa Redmon, Office of the Fulton County District Attorney and
Jessica Wood, Bodker, Ramsey, Andrews, Winograd & Wildstein, P.C.
GAWL organizes volunteers to prepare and serve dinner at Nicholas
House, which helps families to become self-sufficient and to find homes.
Nicholas House is an inspiring place: the families who live there face
adversity with hope, dignity, and hard work. GAWL is committed to
providing dinner at Nicholas House on the second Wednesday of each
month. If you are interested in helping GAWL with the Wednesday
night dinners, you can sign up at http://www.signupgenius.com/
go/30e0f4baeae28a7f85-gawl. To volunteer directly with Nicholas
House, just visit https://nicholashouse.org/get-involved/. Jessica is
going again on November 8; please email [email protected]
if you want to join her.
Ashley Wilson, Shingler Lewis
The Bard Show! The largest fundraiser to support the charitable work
of the Atlanta Bar Foundation.
Shawn Shepard, Smith & Carson
I’m a longtime member of The Junior League of Atlanta, and through
the years, I’ve volunteered with various JLA community partners.
Among other things, I’ve painted homes for Rebuilding Together,
cleared privet for Park Pride, organized a children’s event for Georgia
Shakespeare, boxed groceries for the Atlanta Community Food Bank,
and handed out candy at Zoo Atlanta’s Boo at the Zoo.
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