“A lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite on society.” *** As a young lawyer, these sage words by Charles Hamilton Houston serve as a daily reminder of my capacity to either help or harm communities. Evidence of this reality is written all throughout history. Years before he…

Christopher Punongbayan is a lawyer and Executive Director of ChangeLawyers. He completed the Critical Race Studies program at UCLA Law School. I am not an academic. I don’t even work in education. I’m just a lawyer. And at one point, I was a lonely law student burdened by imposter syndrome…

I was so excited to be starting my first year in college. I remember walking into the university bookstore to buy what I needed for my classes. I walked up to the cashier, laid out my items, and saw the total on the register add up and up and up…

Christopher Punongbayan is the Executive Director of California ChangeLawyers, a public foundation building a better justice system for all Californians. The killing of Breonna Taylor has been a wake-up call to many Americans. …

Jasjit Singh holds a law degree from Thomas Jefferson School of Law and is the Program Officer at ChangeLawyers. As a Sikh, first-generation immigrant from Punjab, and a non-black person of color, I recognize and acknowledge that navigating this country, as hard as it has been, was possible due to…