For over 40 years, Jill Hanken worked at VPLC and paved the way for better healthcare in the Commonwealth. A relentless advocate for low-income Virginians, she successfully fought for advances that have given hundreds of thousands access to healthcare.
Perhaps lesser known is Jill’s long history of mentoring healthcare advocates within Virginia’s legal aid community. To honor her work, VPLC and Jill’s friends and colleagues established the Jill A. Hanken Scholarship Fund dedicated to training health law advocates in Virginia’s legal aid community.
Many programs operate on limited budgets, which often means few resources for professional development. The Scholarship Fund will remove some of these financial burdens and allow healthcare advocates to receive essential training and support.
The program will grant yearly scholarships to select legal aid healthcare professionals to attend educational trainings of their choice. Further application details will be announced soon.
