Julie Wilensky, Director of CREEC’s California Office, has been named to the Daily Journal‘s list of Top Women Lawyers in California for 2016. The Journal highlighted Julie’s successful work on behalf of same-sex spouses wrongfully denied spousal pension and health…
Welcome, Moe!
CREEC is very excited to welcome Moe Leneweaver as our new Office Manager! Moe brings important community organizing and multiple-hat-wearing experience to the job. She worked most recently at IMPACT Charlottesville, engaging in grassroots organizing, planning an annual direct-action event,…
CREEC-Colorado visits CREEC-California
Earlier this week, Tim and I got the chance to check out CREEC’s California office. Come along for a quick tour! Julie Wilensky, Director of our California office, and Executive Director Tim Fox in front of the building where our…
CREEC mourns the passing of Bruce Sattler
CREEC joins the ACLU of Colorado in mourning the passing of longtime civil liberties advocate Bruce Sattler. Bruce was Tim and my first opposing counsel when we started Fox & Robertson in 1996. He was smart, professional, and just a…
Alan Chen Joins CREEC Board
We are very excited to welcome Prof. Alan Chen as a new member of CREEC’s board of directors. Our newest board member is a distinguished professor of law and a nationally-recognized expert in constitutional law and civil rights litigation. Alan…
Big CREEC News: Bill Lann Lee and Julie Wilensky open CREEC’s California Office
We are very excited to announce that we are opening a CALIFORNIA OFFICE and that we will by joined by the amazing and talented Bill Lann Lee and Julie Wilensky. Bill was the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights from 1997–2001…
Welcome, Lauren!
We are very happy to announce that Lauren Fontana is joining CREEC as a staff attorney. Lauren spent the last two years teaching in the University of Denver Sturm College of Law’s Civil Rights Clinic, representing incarcerated individuals. Prior to joining the Clinic,…
CREEC Receives Grant in Honor of Eleanor Crow, Colorado Civil Rights Advocate
Late last year, CREEC was honored to have received a grant allocated by the heirs of Eleanor Elizabeth Gish Crow. Based on Eleanor’s lifelong commitment to civil rights in general and fair housing specifically, her family and heirs decided that…