Join us in congratulating Sumeet Ajmani!

Every month, we give the Amicus Mundi Award to an outstanding lawyer in our community who exemplifies our shared values of service and dedication to building a more just and equitable society. We hope the profile below inspires you to join us on one of our 85 active volunteer projects ([link removed]) .

We’re proud to give the next Amicus Mundi Award to a lawyer (and brand new dad) who helped scale a creative approach to educational access.


** Congratulations, Sumeet Ajmani!
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Working for justice: Sumeet’s career has always been in service of others. In both his private and public sector roles, he’s focused on providing easier access to credit and financial services to those who are underserved, and making sure the American people are treated fairly by banks, lenders and other financial institutions.
* Sumeet learned about We The Action while researching pro bono opportunities.
* “I was thinking about how I could work to create equity and justice in the world,” he says.

The perfect project: Despite the best efforts of many educators, historically underserved learners continue to experience deep inequities in schools.
* The Institute for Liberatory Innovation (ILI) launched in 2020 to increase educators’ capacity to advance social equity in schools. ILI came to We The Action because they needed legal advice to take the next steps in an earned revenue strategy.
* Sumeet originally volunteered to design an MOU to scale ILI’s program. But he quickly became a critical partner for the organization.

“Driven by similar values”: After their first meeting on Zoom, Lucinda Garthwaite, the Director of ILI, immediately knew Sumeet would bring something special to their organization.
* “He is a being of light,” says Lucinda. “He understood what we were doing at the highest level. We are driven by similar values.”

Making an impact: Thanks to help from Sumeet, ILI is now serving three times as many educators, with more expansion on the horizon.
* “The information and hands-on help we received from Sumeet has made it possible for us to scale a new approach to educational access. He knew our work and our needs. We never felt alone. This has been a game changer for us,” says Lucinda.
* “I hope that I was able to offer a fresh set of eyes from a different vantage point,” Sumeet says about his impact at the organization.

Extra credit: The project is over, but Sumeet’s impact at ILI continues. He was recently invited to join their Board of Stewards.
* “When it came time to grow from a founding board to a building board, we needed a legal mind and I immediately thought of Sumeet. He ticks all the boxes for a wonderful board member. He can bring a legal perspective to our deliberations,” says Lucinda.

On behalf of 41,000+ volunteer lawyers: Thank you, Sumeet!


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Best,
The We The Action Team


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