Larissa Mañón

Larissa Mañón serves as Chief Executive Officer for Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, North Carolina’s oldest civil legal aid organization. In that role, she sets the organization’s strategic direction and ensures financial sustainability of the organization. She also oversees program development, budgeting, and reporting while also leading fundraising efforts and cultivating key community partnerships advocates for justice, fostering community relationships, and driving thought leadership on key issues.

Before joining the Advocacy Center in May 2025, Larissa served as the Regional Managing Attorney of Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Piedmont region, where she oversaw the Charlotte, Concord and Gastonia offices. She also served as the Managing Attorney for the Charlotte office, managing the Charlotte office’s operations, personnel and case work in a variety of practice areas, including landlord-tenant, domestic violence, family and consumer law. Prior to serving as Regional Managing Attorney, Larissa worked in various roles at Legal Aid of North Carolina, including as supervising attorney with their statewide Pro Bono Program, supervising attorney with the Domestic Violence Unit at Legal Aid – Charlotte, and as a domestic violence staff attorney in the Concord, Raleigh and Durham offices. In those roles, she primarily represented survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse in their civil protection order cases. Throughout her career, Larissa has been a tireless advocate for marginalized populations, continually working to ensure access to justice and fairness in civil legal matters.

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She received her Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Quinnipiac University School of Law.
She finished her legal studies as a visiting law student at University of North Carolina School of Law. She holds leadership roles in many bar associations and groups.