Fallon Justine Speaker, Esq. (she/her)
Advisory Board Member
Fallon Justine Speaker, Esq. is a feminist, social justice transformer, and movement lawyer. Prior to joining LAJC, she served in academia as Director of The Jeanette Lipman Family Law Clinic at The University of Richmond School of Law and Director of the Mainzer Family Defense Clinic at Cardozo School of Law. From 2013-2019, Fallon served as a Public Defender at The Bronx Defenders where she utilized a holistic interdisciplinary defense skillset to represent community members impacted by surveillance via the family regulation and criminal legal system, and intersectional areas such as substance use, mental health, housing, and immigration. During her time at The Bronx Defenders, Fallon became very active in policy, lobbying, community organizing, reproductive justice intersectionality and movement lawyering. Since then, she has utilized policy and community organizing to play an integral role in local and national coalition building, lobbying for family regulation system reform, centering the rights of incarcerated youth and parents, and improving legal outcomes for people with disabilities. Fallon recently co-founded the Virginia Family Preservation Project and serves on the Virginia Bar Association’s Commission on the Needs of Children.