Alex Kornya is a career legal aid attorney, and advocated for racial and economic justice in Iowa for 16 years before coming to Virginia in 2024. He is currently the litigation director at Legal Aid Justice Center, which conducts impact advocacy in the areas of housing, consumer protection, workers’ rights, immigration, health access and public benefits, collateral consequences of the criminal system, and youth justice. Alex is the coauthor of several publications and is also the cocreator of Napier, a webscraping application designed to streamline the work of attorneys assessing eligibility for expungement and court debt relief, and abilitytopay.org, a website that borrows IRS methodology to create a useable, evidence-based, and poverty conscious framework for determining ability to pay court debt.