Equality · Justice · Change
Access to Justice · Proposal 2026

A Visual Equation

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Equal protection · Bodily autonomy · Dissent as doctrine

“Not fragile like a flower”

Bryan Stevenson

Equal justice · Proximity to pain · Mercy as law

“Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done.”

Equality·Justice·Change

Equality, justice, and change for an undervalued segment of society: the people the law promises to protect and the system routinely overlooks.

The mission

For the people the system undervalues.

EJC is bigger than any one statute or clinic. It exists for people whose rights exist on paper and nowhere else. People with limited income, a conviction history, limited English, immigration consequences, or no prior counsel are the least likely to reach them. Those barriers fall hardest on women, children, communities of color, and immigrants.

  • EqualityThe protections the law promises, applied to women, communities of color, and immigrants.
  • JusticeAccess to the protections people deserve, and the help to wield the law in their favor.
  • ChangeThe measurable result when the first two meet.
Two women in denim and gold capes, fists raised, in front of a barn at sunset, titled Juris Prudence and Justice
Equality

Juris Prudence & Justice

Where Justice Twins

Equality means the same protection, applied with the same strength, to everyone the law promises to protect. Women, communities of color, and immigrants have waited long enough to see it.

The lawClinic concepts

Clinics built around one gap at a time.

Concept 01

Racial Justice Act Clinic

Cal. Penal Code §§ 745, 1473(f), 1473.7 · Modeled on Stanford Law School’s Three Strikes Project and Berkeley Law’s Death Penalty Clinic

The gap

California affords defendants the ability to challenge their conviction and sentencing with a new lens: the Racial Justice Act. However, following a conviction there is no general right to appointed counsel, making access to justice out of reach for many.

What it handles

Habeas petitions for people still in custody (§ 1473(f)) and motions to vacate for people already released (§ 1473.7), including immigration-consequence claims. Students also support appellate counsel raising record-based claims on direct appeal (§ 745(b)).

Who staffs it

Certified law students, supervised by faculty and volunteer attorneys meeting ABA Model Rule 6.1 pro bono goals.

EJC’s role

Community outreach, grant funding, and connection to the people the clinic serves.

  1. OutreachReach people who don’t know relief exists.
  2. ScreenIntake interviews and existing RJA screening tools.
  3. PrepareStudents build the record and draft the filing.
  4. Review and fileA supervising attorney reviews every filing.
The research

Equality arguments for the courts.

EJC’s legal work also includes research on the Thirteenth Amendment as a path to standing for equality and bodily autonomy claims, inspired by the case-by-case strategy Charles Hamilton Houston and Ruth Bader Ginsburg used to change the law.

Butterflies rising over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma at sunset
Because butterflies evolve.
The changeHow it’s measured

Change is something you can count.

  • People reachedOutreach and screenings
  • Claims filedPetitions and motions in court
  • Relief grantedConvictions vacated, sentences reduced
  • Families reunitedPeople home
The outreachBook and products

The mission, in hand.

Cover of Ferlina, The Magical Frog, written by Carol L. Spier
The book

Ferlina, The Magical Frog

Written by Carol L. Spier for her daughter in 1984 and published in 2026. Meet Ferlina, a tall, gentle frog with unique white and blue spots and a secret talent — a heartwarming children’s picture book about courage, self-belief, and embracing what makes you different. Ferlina is becoming part of EJC’s charitable outreach to children.

Why Ferlina? Her message, that what makes you different is your strength, is EJC’s mission told for its youngest audience. The book carries equality to children and families early, and it helps support EJC’s outreach.

Get the book on Amazon · ferlinathemagicalfrog.com

Ferlina bookmark reading Up, up, up! Hop, hop, hop!
Bookmark, ships with every copy
Ferlina Sticker Set No. 1, twelve die-cut stickers
Sticker Set No. 1, ages 4–7
Linen tag reading Not fragile like a flower
The wear

The Collective

A civil-rights-coded line of original designs: Good Trouble, Glory, E.J.C., and Inspire. The “Not fragile like a flower” linen tag is coming soon to every order.

Shop the Collective

Navy wide-leg pants with Equality Justice Change down one leg and When There Are Nine down the other
Wide-leg pants, white, navy & black
Black leggings with Equality Justice Change running down the outside of the leg
EJC leggings, black
Black tee with Equality Justice Change running down the side
Side tee, unisex & women’s
Navy sneakers from above: Equality Justice Change along the outside of each shoe
Still I Rise sneakers
Black tote with the stacked Equality Justice Change wordmark
EJC tote
Navy dad hat embroidered with Equality Justice Change
Dad hat, EJC embroidered
The founder

EqualityJusticeChange.org · Coming soon

EJC is a nonprofit in formation advancing gender, social, and educational equality. It was founded by Kristin C. McCann, a 4L at The Colleges of Law and a student in its inaugural Civil Rights cohort. Aubrey Davis, a 3L at The Colleges of Law and a fellow student in the inaugural Civil Rights cohort, and Shelley Hoffmann, who toured the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta with the Civil Rights class, have agreed to join her. All three women have been moved to aid progress.