Advancement Project Los Angeles is a non-profit policy and legal action organization working to solve public sector problems. We focus on issues of equity and access with the goals of ensuring that the ladder of upward mobility extends to all Californians.



We are equity advocates with a strong civil rights bent. The organization, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, was founded in 1998 to explore revitalized approaches to problems of inclusion and equity.



In the Los Angeles office, we focus on making big public systems—mostly in Los Angeles County but statewide as needed—do a better job for low income residents, especially low income children and youth. Over the past decade, AP’s principals have been active in the reform of LA’s public transit, public schools and police. We have played major roles in shifting several billion dollars of public resources toward low income families by relying on a collaborative, multi-disciplinary blend of data analysis, media skills, mapping, legal and policy work, and one-on-one persuasion.