June 28, 2023

Community Legal Aid hosting Rural Summer Legal Corps Fellow in Fitchburg office

BY Leominster Champion

FITCHBURG — Community Legal Aid, a nonprofit organization that provides free legal services to low-income and elderly residents of Central and Western Massachusetts, is pleased to host Caela Provost in its Fitchburg office as a Rural Summer Legal Corps Fellow.

Launched in 2016, the Rural Summer Legal Corps Fellowship is an initiative that connects law students with legal aid programs working to address the civil legal needs of rural communities. The Fellowship award is a collaboration between the Legal Services Corporation and Equal Justice Works and seeks to provide opportunities for law students to acquire the training and skills that will enable them to provide effective representation to underserved communities and causes. Community Legal Aid’s Rural Summer Legal Corps Fellow is just one of 45 selected nationwide this year.

A rising second year law student at Suffolk University School of Law, Provost brings an impressive set of qualifications to the Fellowship. After graduating from Murdock Middle/High School in Winchendon, Provost graduated magna cum laude from Marist College, and received her Master of Arts in English, First-Class Honors, from the University of Limerick in Ireland. She served for one year with the AmeriCorps Job Ready program in the Gardner and Fitchburg areas before working for a decade in the fields of international education and study abroad. An avid traveler, Provost served as a volunteer builder several times in Sacatepéquez, Guatemala.

As a Legal Corps Fellow, Provost will work directly with Community Legal Aid’s staff in the organization’s Fitchburg office to conduct a needs assessment and provide legal aid to low-income and elderly residents in the north central region of Worcester County, which is the most rural section of the county. Community Legal Aid’s Fitchburg office provides clients with services in Housing, Education, Employment, Elder and Family law.

“We are thrilled to host Caela Provost as a Rural Summer Legal Corps Fellow to help expand our work within rural communities throughout the north central region of Worcester County,” said Inês Kenney, managing attorney of the office. “I cannot think of a more perfect candidate to assist with this important work.”

For more information, please visit www.communitylegal.org.