City Bar Justice Center Appoints Amelia Toledo as Next Director of the Shelter Advocacy Project

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Anthony Johnson 
City Bar Justice Center 
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New York, September 30, 2025 – The City Bar Justice Center, a pro bono legal services affiliate of the New York City Bar Association, is pleased to introduce Amelia Toledo as the next director of the Shelter Advocacy Project. Toledo succeeds Jennifer Quijano, who departed the Justice Center earlier this year.

“I am thrilled to continue the City Bar Justice Center’s legacy of providing effective, strategic legal services to individuals experiencing homelessness. Together with our amazing social work team and pro bono partners, the Shelter Advocacy Project will continue to collaborate with our clients in ways that both honor our clients’ dignity, integrity, and self-determination and help them achieve their stated goals,” said Toledo.

Toledo first joined the Justice Center in 2018 as a staff attorney for the Legal Hotline, and more recently provided part-time support to the Federal Pro Se Legal Assistance Project for the Eastern District of New York. In her new role, Toledo will lead our recently re-launched Shelter Advocacy Project – formerly Legal Clinic for the Homeless – providing advice, advocacy, and limited-scope representation on urgent and unmet legal needs of people experiencing homelessness in New York City.

“I am so happy to have Amelia, an outstanding member of the Justice Center team for seven years, in this important new role. She’s already jumped into our Shelter Advocacy Project with tremendous energy and great ideas, and I am confident that the program will continue to flourish under her leadership,” said Executive Director Kurt M. Denk.

Prior to her tenure at the Justice Center, Toledo served as a law clerk to the Hon. Lois Bloom, United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York, a staff attorney at Mobilization for Justice’s Consumer Rights Project, and as a litigation fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council. She holds a J.D. from CUNY School of Law and a B.A. in Biomedical Ethics from Brown University.

Beyond legal work, Toledo is a trained mediator with the New York Peace Institute and a certified New York State EMT.

To learn more about the Shelter Advocacy Project, please visit https://www.citybarjusticecenter.org/projects/shelter-advocacy-project/

About the City Bar Justice Center  

The City Bar Justice Center furthers access to justice by addressing unmet civil legal needs of New Yorkers struggling with poverty and other systemic socioeconomic barriers. The Justice Center’s dozen civil justice projects are led by a staff of dedicated attorneys and support professionals who provide high-quality civil legal services through brief advice and information, referrals, and both limited scope and extended representation that benefit more than 27,000 New Yorkers each year who cannot afford to hire counsel. www.citybarjusticecenter.org