TED Fellow Lam Ho is a legal aid activist.
Why you should listen
Lam Ho is the founder and director of Beyond Legal Aid, an organization that embeds pro-bono lawyers within communities to support strategic litigation. Their particular focus is on empowering people who are often marginalized by the justice system. Beyond Legal Aid pushes the existing legal aid system by centering grassroots communities and shifting power to community-located, community-operated and community-directed legal aid programs.
