Ericka Garcia
The Florida Bar Foundation Director of Pro Bono Partnerships
Maitland, FL
Ericka serves as the first-ever director of pro bono partnerships at The Florida Bar Foundation. Her duties include supporting local and statewide efforts to expand pro bono partnerships with bar associations, law firms, courts, law schools, legal aid organizations and pro bono programs. To implement an expanded vision for pro bono in Florida, she has overseen the creation of Florida Pro Bono Matters, an interactive website allowing attorneys to take pro bono cases through the use of new technology by displaying available cases from multiple pro bono programs at one time. Previously, Ericka worked for six years at the Legal Aid Society of the Orange County Bar Association as an Equal Justice Works Fellow. As a Guardian ad Litem attorney for dependent children with developmental disabilities, Ericka provided holistic representation while recruiting and training pro bono GAL attorneys, lay volunteers, and community partners on a local and statewide level. Ericka can be reached at: egarcia@flabarfndn.org