About me
Carrie Stambaugh is an Equal Justice Works Fellow in the Opioid Crisis Response Program and a Staff Attorney at Legal Aid of the Bluegrass. Based in rural northeast, Kentucky, her practice is centered on providing direct civil legal services to low-income and substance use affected individuals. Carrie represents clients in domestic violence, divorce, custody, expungement, social security and housing disputes.
Carrie is also an award-winning print and broadcast journalist. Her career timing put her on the ground at the onset of the Opioid Epidemic in eastern Kentucky, where she covered it for two decades as a reporter and editor. Her work focused on the epidemics’ effect on individuals and their communities.
Carrie’s background provides her with a “bigger picture” of the Opioid Epidemic in America and an understanding of the multitude of challenges her clients face as she helps them to stabilize their lives and move forward in their recovery.
As an EJW Fellow and attorney, Carrie now puts her communications experience and deep network of contracts to work through outreach and educational events, which seek to raise awareness and support of the work Legal Aid of the Bluegrass is doing to assist individuals in long term recovery.
Carrie earned her juris doctorate from Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northeastern Kentucky University and her bachelor’s degree from E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University.
