The LBF has hired Amanda L. Brown a licensed attorney and a legal innovation and technology consultant for the Civil Legal Navigator project. Amanda will work to bring together a broad spectrum of entities involved in providing access to justice to develop the civil legal aid technology portal.

Most recently, Amanda spent one year in-residence at Microsoft headquarters where she served as the inaugural Microsoft NextGen Fellow for the ABA Center for Innovation. During her fellowship, Amanda worked closely with legal community stakeholders and in-house technologists to support the design and develop the LSC Portal Project pilot, from which the Civil Legal Aid Navigator project is derived. Prior to her fellowship, Amanda served as a Louisiana Bar Foundation Flood Recovery Fellow with Southeast Louisiana Legal Services. She is a 2016 graduate of Loyola University New Orleans College of Law.