Amy Zaremba 2005 Equal Justice Works Fellow Georgia Justice Project, Atlanta, GA Sponsor(s): Greenberg Traurig, LLP Primary Issue Area: Criminal Law American University Washington College of Law, 2005

Amy Zaremba works with the Georgia Justice Project, where she interned the summer after her first year in law school. The Georgia Justice Project provides an array of services, including legal representation, addictions counseling, GED preparation and job training for indigent people facing criminal charges. The Project works with and supports these people as they rebuild their lives. Amy fits right in with this agency as she has been committed to working with, and for, people who are indigent or homeless for over 12 years when. While in college, she was co-director of a shelter for homeless adults. In addition to working at various homeless shelters, Amy has worked with the homeless populations in Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington D.C. She started a job training program for homeless adults, ran two childcare centers for children and their families who were living in area homeless shelters, and was the director of an outreach program for people who were homeless, in recovery and recently released from prison. Amy currently works on the decriminalization of homelessness. Atlanta is considered one of the worst places for someone who is homeless to live. People are often arrested simply because they are homeless. Amy is working to reduce these occurrences three different ways: 1. by representing people who are arrested for "quality of life" ordinances (loitering, sleeping in public, etc.); 2. by educating people who are homeless on their rights while educating others about the special needs of people who are homeless; and 3. by advocating for changes in city laws and regulations.