Alex Partington
Project OfficerAlex has a background in legal practice and has worked across the community, private and public sectors.
Alex worked for several years in the community legal sector, initially at Southside Justice within their LGBTIQ Legal Service and then at Justice Connect within their Homeless Law program. While at Southside Justice, Alex coordinated the Roberta Perkins Law Project, a specialist state-wide project for trans and gender diverse people. Most recently, Alex worked at the Victoria Law Foundation as Research Coordinator, contributing to research with a focus on access to justice and improvements to the legal system within Victoria. Throughout various roles, Alex has worked on projects assisting incarcerated clients and those released from prison, and is particularly interested in the impacts of incarceration and criminalisation on people from marginalised communities.