Staff and Leadership
Board of Directors
Natalie Aliga, Wells Fargo Government & Community Relations Group |
Nana A. Antwi-Ansorge, Attorney |
Daniel L. Brown, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP |
Shane Burcaw, Laughing At My Nightmare, Inc. |
Christopher Coleman, First Republic Bank |
Evan Davis, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
Ernest Galvan, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP |
Edward Gildea, FisherBroyles, LLP |
Melissa “echo” Greenlee, deaffriendly.com |
Tami Hamalian, Starbucks Corporation |
Barb Izzo, Advisor |
Kyndra LoCoco, Google |
Srin Madipalli, Airbnb |
Daniel S. Mason, Furth Salem Mason & Li LLP |
Allison May, Attorney |
Darren Minarik, Radford University |
Steven P. Ragland, Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP |
Cristina Rubke, Chair, Shartsis Friese LLP |
Scott Smigel, Arcana Corporation |
Michael P. Stanley, Attorney |
East Coast Advisory Board
David J. Abrams, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP |
Rebecca Alexander, LCSW-R, MPH |
Josef T. Ansorge, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP |
Sasha Blair-Goldensohn, Google |
Daniel L. Brown, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP |
Andrew Brozman, Clifford Chance US LLP |
Robert Egan, Retired |
Jeffrey Miller |
Wayne Outten, Founding and Managing Partner of Outten & Golden LLP |
Emma Rhodes, Media Consultant |
Robyn Ruderman, Starbucks Corporation |
West Coast Advisory Board
Janice L. Lehrer-Stein, NCD Member & FFB Trustee |
William F. Alderman, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
Linda Dardarian, Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho |
Anya Emerson, Staff Attorney, Family Violence Appellate Project |
Joseph Forderer, Homemaker |
Paul Grossman, Retired, Chief Regional Civil Rights Attorney, US ED, Office for Civil Rights |
Lucy Lee Helm, Starbucks Coffee Company |
Joshua Konecky, Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky Wotkyns LLP |
Bonnie Lewkowicz, Access Northern California |
Charles McAvoy, Disability Community Advocate/Activist |
Guy T. Saperstein, Law Office of Guy T. Saperstein |
Prithi Trivedi, Fellow, Effective Philanthropy Group, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation |
Abby Yim, Executive Director, Integrated Community Services |
Staff Leadership
Kate Hamilton, Managing Director, Development & Operations |
Kathy Martinez, President & CEO |
Stuart Seaborn, Managing Director, Litigation |
Attorneys
Torie Atkinson, Staff Attorney |
Sean Betouliere, Staff Attorney |
Christina Brandt-Young, Managing Attorney |
Chloe Holzman, Staff Attorney |
Michelle Iorio, Staff Attorney |
Jelena Kolic, Staff Attorney |
Andrea Kozak-Oxnard, Staff Attorney |
Melissa Riess, Staff Attorney |
Rebecca Rodgers, Senior Staff Attorney |
Stuart Seaborn, Managing Director, Litigation |
Emily Seelenfreund, Staff Attorney |
Rebecca C. Serbin, Staff Attorney |
Rebecca Sobie, Senior Staff Attorney |
Shira Tevah, Staff Attorney |
Meredith Weaver, Staff Attorney |
Rebecca Williford, Managing Attorney |
Thomas Zito, Supervising Attorney |
Fellows
Rosa Lee Bichell, Justice Catalyst Fellow, Disability Rights Advocates |
Ptahra Jeppe, Wolinsky Fellow, Disability Rights Advocates |
Operations
Glenda Beamon, Administrative Coordinator |
Michelle Fraysse, Interim Director of Finance |
Kate Hamilton, Managing Director, Development & Operations |
Chris Maccarone, Development & Communications Coordinator |
Kathy Martinez, President & CEO |
Vera Mastrorilli, Paralegal |
Jess Miller-Suchet, Paralegal |
Drew Starr, Interim HR Consultant |
Andrew Trainor, Paralegal |
Daniel Weinberg, Litigation Assistant |
Past Fellows
Jessie Agatstein, Appellate Attorney, Federal Defenders of San Diego |
Alison Aubrejuan, Permanent Law Clerk to Judge Susan Illston, US District Court |
Mazen Basrawi, Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Department of Justice |
Rhoda Benedetti, Retired |
Sean Betouliere, Staff Attorney |
Stephanie Biedermann, Legal Officer, PILnet: The Global Network for Public Interest Law |
Zoe Chernicoff, Founder, Coddiwomple Co. |
Kasey Corbit, Attorney, Law Offices of Benjamin C. Graves |
Brian Dimmick, General Attorney, Office for Civil Rights Program Legal Group, Disability Rights Team at U.S. Department of Education |
Rowena Gargalicana, Co-founder, Gargalicana/Graceffa LLP; Past President, Alameda County Bar Association |
Karla Gilbride, Cartwright-Baron Staff Attorney, Public Justice |
Haben Girma, Access & Inclusion Advocate |
Robin Goldfaden, Senior Staff Attorney, Youth Law Center |
Monica Goracke, Executive Director, Oregon Law Center |
Caroline Jacobs, Career Law Clerk for Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley |
Kara Janssen, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP |
Anne Kelsey, Staff Attorney, Disability Rights New York |
Kevin Knestrick, Attorney, Asian Law Alliance |
Jelena Kolic, Staff Attorney |
Joshua Konecky, Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky Wotkyns LLP |
Ife Kubler-Agyemang |
Paul Leahy, Judicial Law Clerk, U.S. Bankruptcy Courts |
Julia Marks, Staff Attorney, Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus |
Alexius Markwalder, Deputy Attorney General III at Attorney General’s Office, CA Department of Justice |
Michael Nunez, Associate, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld, LLP |
Seth Packrone, Attorney, Impact Litigation Practice at Bronx Defenders |
Shawna Parks, Attorney, Owner, Law Office of Shawna L. Parks |
Julia Pinover Kupiec, Assistant Counsel, Office of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo; Officer, Executive Chamber Ethics |
Freya Pitts, Attorney, National Center for Youth Law |
Monica Porter, Staff Attorney, Homebase |
Rebecca Rodgers, Senior Staff Attorney |
Stephen Tollafield, Professor, Associate Director of Legal Writing and Moot Court at UC Hastings College of the Law |
Meredith Weaver, Staff Attorney |
Rebecca Williford, Managing Attorney |
Elizabeth Zwillinger, Family Law Attorney. Greene Jordan Taubman & Dias |