Staff and Leadership

Staff Leadership

• Rebecca Williford, DRA President & CEO
• Kate Hamilton, Chief Operating Officer
• Shawna Parks, Chief Litigation Officer

Attorneys

• Sean Betouliere, Senior Staff Attorney
• Rosa Lee Bichell, Staff Attorney
• Brittany Castle, Staff Attorney
• Amelia Evard, Staff Attorney
• Erin Gallagher, Senior Staff Attorney
• Scott Gordon, Senior Staff Attorney
• Elizabeth Gyori, Staff Attorney
• Jinny Kim, Supervising Attorney
• Jameelah Najieb, Staff Attorney
• Victoria Pilger, Staff Attorney
• Madeleine Reichman, Senior Staff Attorney
• Josh Rosenthal, Supervising Attorney
• Emily Roznowski, Staff Attorney
• Meredith Weaver, Senior Staff Attorney
• Rachel Weisberg, Supervising Attorney
• Thomas Zito, Supervising Attorney

Fellows

• Eliana Fisher, Wolinsky Fellow
• Desiree Robedeaux, Wolinsky Fellow

Legal Support

• Molly Maguire, Paralegal
• Amy Ollove, Paralegal
• Stephie Ossesia, Litigation Assistant
• Joshua Peterson, Senior Paralegal
• Andrew Trainor, Senior Paralegal

Operations

• Hillary Brooks, Controller
• Sarah Jelley, HR Consultant
• Chris Maccarone, Development & Communications Manager
• Christin Mills, Executive Assistant
• Cathy Miranda, Staff Accountant
• Aileen Parker, Director of Development

Board of Directors

• Bryan Bashin, U.S. AbilityOne Commission
• Shane Burcaw, Laughing At My Nightmare, Inc.
• Christopher Coleman, Retired Bank Executive, DRA Board Treasurer
• Evan Davis, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
• Morgan Duffy-Granville, OneFifteen, DRA Board Chair
• Brian Frumkin, Attorney, DRA Board Secretary
• James Ian, Actor and Musician
• Emily Ladau, Author, Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to be an Ally
• Kathy Martinez, DRA Board Vice-Chair
• Steven P. Ragland, Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP
• Cristina Rubke, Shartsis Friese LLP
• Barry Taylor, University of Chicago Law School
• Sofia Vergara, Bridges to Inclusion
• Rebecca Williford, DRA President & CEO

Advisory Board

• David J. Abrams, Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP
• William F. Alderman, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
• Rebecca Alexander, LCSW-R, MPH
• Natalie Aliga, Citibank
• Josef T. Ansorge, Cooley LLP
• Daniel L. Brown, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
• Andrew Brozman, Clifford Chance US LLP
• Linda Dardarian, Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho
• Anya Emerson, Family Violence Appellate Project
• Ernest Galvan, Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP
• Edward Gildea, FisherBroyles, LLP
• Melissa “echo” Greenlee, deaffriendly.com
• Lucy Lee Helm, Retired, Starbucks Corporation
• Barb Izzo, Advisor and Professional Dog Trainer
• Adam Jed, Attorney
• Sarah Jelley, HR Consultant
• Joshua Konecky, Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky Wotkyns LLP
• Janni Lehrer-Stein, NIH Eye Council
• Bonnie Lewkowicz, Access Northern California
• Charles McAvoy, Disability Community Advocate/Activist
• Darren Minarik, Radford University
• Robyn Ruderman, Starbucks Corporation
• Michael P. Stanley, Attorney