Media Center
Find press releases, impact reports, media contacts, and updates on our fight for a fairer Virginia.
Welcome to Virginia Poverty Law Center’s Media Center: your source for the latest on our advocacy, legal work, and community impact. Here you’ll find press releases, featured news stories, data-driven reports, and downloadable materials for journalists, partners, and the public. Whether you’re covering a breaking issue, researching policy change, or highlighting our work, this is where you’ll find trusted, timely information about our mission and movement.
News and Insights
Press Release
Enroll Virginia to Host Virtual Press Conference with Virginia’s Insurance Marketplace on New Premium Savings and Free Enrollment Help
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 4, 2026MEDIA CONTACT: Deepak Madala, Program Director, Enroll Virginia |deepak@vplc.org | 804-432-0199 One week into Open Enrollment, Enroll Virginia, the statewide Navigator program of the Virginia Poverty Law Center (VPLC), will host a virtual press conference […]
Update
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Is Coercive Control Domestic Violence?
Press Release
New Virginia Majority and Virginia Poverty Law Center Intervene in NextEra Energy/Dominion Energy Merger
August 31, 2026Deb Freeman dfreeman@newvirginiamajority.org, 757-452-1143;Faith Kallman, faith@vplc.org, 804-351-5265 NVM and VPLC are deeply committed to ensuring all Virginians can afford to pay forenergy to heat and cool their homes, and both organizations are formally intervening inthe case before the […]
Press Releases
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Latest Stories
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Directors
Valerie L’Herrou, Esq.
Deputy Director of the Center for Family Advocacy
Staff Attorney, Family & Child Welfare
Susheela Varky, Esq.
Director of the Center for Family Advocacy and Legal Assistance for Victim-Immigrants of Domestic Abuse (LA VIDA)
