I am a legal officer with Open Society Justice Initiative working on discrimination issues, especially ethnic profiling and discrimination against Travellers in the housing sector. I will be supporting 2 pilot projects making use of legal empowerment methodologies to monitor, document and litigate against problems in these areas. In joining the network, I would like to benefit from existing resources for collecting, storing and evaluating data so that it most effectively undergirds advocacy and litigation, and better understand the manner that legal empowerment supports community organizing. I would also like to learn lessons from other contexts, positive and negative.