{"id":2282,"date":"2022-09-29T23:01:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T23:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/2022\/10\/27\/randy-mcdonald-3\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T23:06:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T23:06:29","slug":"partner-profile-mia-burcham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/nv\/2022\/09\/29\/partner-profile-mia-burcham\/","title":{"rendered":"Partner Profile – Mia Burcham"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Helping People Trapped in a Cycle of Criminalization<\/em><\/p>\t<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Our newest Partner Profile is proof that youth isn\u2019t always wasted on the young. Meet Mia Burcham, 26, a student research assistant with the University of Arizona Law School\u2019s Civil Rights Restoration Clinic (CRRC), led by Prof. Andy Silverman in Tucson.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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In just the past few years, Mia\u2014a native Tucsonan raised in Texas and Oregon\u2014has received her undergraduate degree, served constituents in need of federal aid like FEMA assistance and Social Security disability benefits, crisscrossed the country working for a U.S. senator, enrolled in law school, and helped launch expungement clinics for multiple organizations in southern Arizona.<\/p>\n

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“When I got to law school, I realized that I really missed the interactive, client-focused aspect of social work that I was doing serving a U.S. senator\u2019s constituency. And I was struggling to ground those concepts I was learning in law school without putting them into practice,\u201d Mia said.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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So, not long after Arizona\u2019s new marijuana expungement law went into effect in 2021 after the passage of Proposition 207, Mia didn\u2019t hesitate to sign up to assist the University of Arizona chapter of the National Lawyers Guild to help them organize expungement clinics before joining the Reclaim Your Future campaign and its partner, the CRRC, this past May. Along with fellow research assistant Rebecca Cohen, Mia is largely responsible for helping the RYF team in Pima County plan expungement clinics and make legal services more accessible.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t \t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n\t \n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\n\t

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\u201cIt became obvious to me even before I began working at the clinics that both felony and misdemeanor marijuana convictions were especially burdening people with less access to legal help\u2014poor people, people of color\u2014and trapping them in a cycle of poverty and criminalization,\u201d Mia said. \u201cSo, I\u2019ve seen how the ability to expunge these charges can be life-changing for people who have lost opportunities because of their record\u2014because of a small amount of something that\u2019s finally been legalized in our state.<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cThe clinics,\u201d Mia added, \u201chave been a profound reminder to me of the inequities of our criminal legal system.\u201d<\/p> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t \t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n\t \n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\n\t

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You\u2019ll find Mia at the next Reclaim Your Future free expungement clinic in Tucson on Wednesday, Oct. 5, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Blacklidge Community Collective, 101 E. Ventura St.<\/h3> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\t <\/div>\n\t \t<\/div>\n\t\t <\/div>\n\t \n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Partner Profiles Mia Burcham Helping People Trapped in a Cycle of Criminalization Our newest Partner Profile is proof that youth isn\u2019t always wasted on the young. Meet Mia Burcham, 26, […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-partner-profile","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""," cat-25"," cat-45"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/mia-outside1_2.jpg","builder_content":"

Partner Profiles<\/h1>\n <\/svg> \"Mia

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Helping People Trapped in a Cycle of Criminalization<\/em><\/p>\n\n

Our newest Partner Profile is proof that youth isn\u2019t always wasted on the young. Meet Mia Burcham, 26, a student research assistant with the University of Arizona Law School\u2019s Civil Rights Restoration Clinic (CRRC), led by Prof. Andy Silverman in Tucson.<\/p>\n

In just the past few years, Mia\u2014a native Tucsonan raised in Texas and Oregon\u2014has received her undergraduate degree, served constituents in need of federal aid like FEMA assistance and Social Security disability benefits, crisscrossed the country working for a U.S. senator, enrolled in law school, and helped launch expungement clinics for multiple organizations in southern Arizona.<\/p>

Phew.<\/p>\n

\"When I got to law school, I realized that I really missed the interactive, client-focused aspect of social work that I was doing serving a U.S. senator\u2019s constituency. And I was struggling to ground those concepts I was learning in law school without putting them into practice,\u201d Mia said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen how the ability to expunge these charges can be life-changing for people who have lost opportunities because of their record.\"<\/p>\n

So, not long after Arizona\u2019s new marijuana expungement law went into effect in 2021 after the passage of Proposition 207, Mia didn\u2019t hesitate to sign up to assist the University of Arizona chapter of the National Lawyers Guild to help them organize expungement clinics before joining the Reclaim Your Future campaign and its partner, the CRRC, this past May. Along with fellow research assistant Rebecca Cohen, Mia is largely responsible for helping the RYF team in Pima County plan expungement clinics and make legal services more accessible.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt became obvious to me even before I began working at the clinics that both felony and misdemeanor marijuana convictions were especially burdening people with less access to legal help\u2014poor people, people of color\u2014and trapping them in a cycle of poverty and criminalization,\u201d Mia said. \u201cSo, I\u2019ve seen how the ability to expunge these charges can be life-changing for people who have lost opportunities because of their record\u2014because of a small amount of something that\u2019s finally been legalized in our state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe clinics,\u201d Mia added, \u201chave been a profound reminder to me of the inequities of our criminal legal system.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

You\u2019ll find Mia at the next Reclaim Your Future free expungement clinic in Tucson on Wednesday, Oct. 5, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Blacklidge Community Collective, 101 E. Ventura St.<\/h3>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/nv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/nv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/nv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/nv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/nv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/nv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/nv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/nv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/nv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/nv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azexpunge.org\/nv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}