Claudia Johnson
Visiting Assistant Professor
About
Claudia Colindres Johnson, MPP/MPH, JD is a Visiting Assistant Professor with the LDJ Program.
- Claudia spent significant time representing low-income individuals upon graduation as a Skadden Fellow and then as a staff and managing attorney in family law/Domestic Violence, public benefits, medical health insurance denials, housing/eviction defense, and consumer law, both in Philadelphia and in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- She is pioneer in adapting technology to scale the impact of legal nonprofits, as well as other innovations, like setting up the Lawyer of the Day program in SF Superior Court, replicated in NY State and beyond.
- She was pivotal in leading the adoption of legal hotline technology and other tools to better triage and serve those in need.
- She is an expert on Language Justice, and was pivotal to making online forms, document assembly, ubiquitous in Courts and legal nonprofits.
- She has been a drafter in multiple standard setting bodies, including working with the ATJ Commission in WA State on the WA Supreme Court Access to Justice Principles for Courts, the ABA Language Access Standards for State Courts, and the ABA Standards of Service in Legal Non-Profits, as well as on Friendly Efiling for Self-Represented Litigants.
- She is a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her work has been recognized nationally and featured in the NY Times.
- She is teaching Constitutional Law, Poverty Law. and Reproductive Rights at the Fairhaven campus and mentoring students.
- She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in Chicano Studies, an MPH from the Public Health School and an MPP from the Goldam School. Prior to going to Law School she worked as a policy analyst for the US Senate.
- Her law degree is from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.