About Us
What is the Indiana Justice Project?
The Indiana Justice Project is a non-partisan, non-profit legal advocacy organization. We use all available legal tools to ensure equal justice and opportunity for all Hoosiers. Our programming fits into three categories: health, housing, and food insecurity.
Thousands of Hoosiers have unmet legal needs from health care to housing to everything in between. Although Indiana has a robust civil legal aid and pro bono system, it is not enough to meet the need. For this reason, when working with individuals and communities with legal needs we also think about the “big picture”—asking how the obstacles to justice and opportunity are shared by all Hoosiers. We work with affected individuals, community groups, and partnerships. We look at data and outcomes. And we work to think about the roots of injustice.
Staff
Adam Mueller, JD
Executive Director
Natalia Machicote, MPH
Food Justice Fellow
Board of Directors
David Bacon, Mapleton Fall Creek CDC (President)
Christy Jacobi, Washington Township Schools Foundation (Treasurer)
Ami Gandhi, Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
Robin Nichols, Crossroads AME Church
Cassidy Segura Clouse, Faegre Drinker Biddle and Reath, LLP
Modupe (Mo) Adewunmi
How We Work
Counsel/Advice/Direct Service
Due to size and scope, IJP provides counsel, advice, and direct service in a limited number of cases based on specific funding. We do not have a general intake line. If you are in need of free legal help, please visit Indiana Legal Help.
Broad Advocacy
IJP seeks to address the root causes and effects of injustice in Indiana. This means understanding how our laws, and changes in our laws, will affect the most vulnerable Hoosiers. We do this by engaging with affected individuals and communities, partners, and stakeholders.
We do this work by engaging in public education, administrative and regulatory advocacy, improvements to our judicial system, and litigation.