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, Chair, 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 |
| Steven P. Ragland, Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP |
| Cristina Rubke, 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 |
| Janice L. Lehrer-Stein, NCD Member & FFB Trustee |
| Jeffrey Miller |
| Wayne Outten, Founding and Managing Partner of Outten & Golden LLP |
| Emma Rhodes, Media Consultant |
| Robyn Ruderman, Starbucks Corporation |
West Coast Advisory Board
| 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 |
| William Keller, Community Bank of the Bay |
| 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
| Michelle Caiola, Managing Director, Litigation |
| Kate Hamilton, Interim Executive Director |
| Stuart Seaborn, Managing Director, Litigation |
Attorneys
| Torie Atkinson, Staff Attorney |
| Elizabeth Ballart, Staff Attorney |
| Sean Betouliere, Staff Attorney |
| Christina Brandt-Young, Managing Attorney |
| Michelle Caiola, Managing Director, Litigation |
| 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
| Ife Kubler-Agyemang, Legal Fellow, Disability Rights Advocates |
| Rosa Lee Bichell, Justice Catalyst Fellow, Disability Rights Advocates |
Operations
| Glenda Beamon, Executive Secretary |
| Shelly Feldman, Litigation Assistant |
| Michelle Fraysse, Interim Director of Finance |
| Jodi Grigas, Director of Human Resources & Operations |
| Kate Hamilton, Interim Executive Director |
| Chris Maccarone, Development & Communications Coordinator |
| Vera Mastrorilli, Litigation Assistant |
| Jess Miller-Suchet, Litigation Assistant |
| Rebecca Moser, Litigation Assistant |
| Desiree Robedeaux, 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 |
| 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 |