Eva DeLair
Deputy Director, Northern California Programs
Oakland, California
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Eva brings more than a decade of experience working with systems and impacted people and communities. She received her BA in political science and religious studies at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. It was while an undergrad that Eva first visited a women’s prison and had the opportunity to work beside and talk with incarcerated people in a community garden on the grounds of California Institution for Women. Her passion for serving incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people, and their families and communities sprouted there (along with a hearty crop of tomatoes).
Eva received her J.D. from Drexel University, Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, PA with the intention of using that degree to serve people with arrest and conviction histories. While at law school, Eva’s work and knowledge of the prison industrial complex continued to grow. Eva worked in various prisoner rights, reentry, and criminal defense non-profit organizations and volunteered as a collective member of Books through Bars in Philadelphia which sends free books and educational materials to incarcerated people. During Eva’s second summer of law school, she interned at Legal Services for Prisoner with Children (LSPC). Following law school, she continued that work as a fellow at LSPC and then a staff attorney. With LSPC, Eva advocated for legislative and regulatory policy changes to increase the rights of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people and their families.
Since joining Root & Rebound in 2018, Eva has continued to blossom in this work. She now supervises a team of advocates across Northern California, and takes pride in supporting their work as well as planting seeds of experience in pro bono attorneys and law students.
Eva DeLair
Deputy Director, Northern California Programs
Oakland, California
Email Eva
Eva brings more than a decade of experience working with systems and impacted people and communities. She received her BA in political science and religious studies at Scripps College in Claremont, CA. It was while an undergrad that Eva first visited a women’s prison and had the opportunity to work beside and talk with incarcerated people in a community garden on the grounds of California Institution for Women. Her passion for serving incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people, and their families and communities sprouted there (along with a hearty crop of tomatoes).
Eva received her J.D. from Drexel University, Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, PA with the intention of using that degree to serve people with arrest and conviction histories. While at law school, Eva’s work and knowledge of the prison industrial complex continued to grow. Eva worked in various prisoner rights, reentry, and criminal defense non-profit organizations and volunteered as a collective member of Books through Bars in Philadelphia which sends free books and educational materials to incarcerated people. During Eva’s second summer of law school, she interned at Legal Services for Prisoner with Children (LSPC). Following law school, she continued that work as a fellow at LSPC and then a staff attorney. With LSPC, Eva advocated for legislative and regulatory policy changes to increase the rights of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people and their families.
Since joining Root & Rebound in 2018, Eva has continued to blossom in this work. She now supervises a team of advocates across Northern California, and takes pride in supporting their work as well as planting seeds of experience in pro bono attorneys and law students.
Why do you come to work at Root & Rebound every day?
To support people as they reclaim their lives, agency, and dignity; to bare witness to and walk with people as they struggle through the legal and logistical obstacle course of reentry.
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