Our leadership team is comprised of individuals who are the best and brightest in their fields, committed to dismantling injustice and pursuing lasting change.
Leadership Team
Kaitlin Banner
Deputy Legal Director
Ryan Downer
Legal Director
Tanya Edelin
Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer
Joanne Lin
Executive Director
Melissa Nussbaum
Development Director
Our Leadership
Officers
Joseph Davis, Co-Chair
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Avis Buchanan, Co-Chair
Brian D. Schneider, Treasurer
ArentFox Schiff LLP
Mark P. Guerrera, Secretary
Sidley Austin LLP
Joanne Lin
Executive Director (ex officio)
Board Members
| Matt Nicely | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP |
| Tiffany Rider | Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP |
| John A. Freedman | Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP |
| John C. Keeney, Jr. | Association of Zoos and Aquariums |
| J. David Folds | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. |
| Elizabeth B. McCallum | Baker & Hostetler LLP |
| Roscoe C. Howard | Barnes & Thornburg LLP |
| Kevin Metz | Center for American Progress |
| Alyson Sincavage | Cisco |
| Claudia Withers | Civil Rights Corps |
| Annie Froehlich | Cooley |
| Nowell Bamberger | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| Joseph M. Sellers | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| Stacey Grigsby | Covington & Burling LLP |
| George D. Ruttinger | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Jeannie S. Rhee | Dunn Isaacson Rhee |
| George Breen | Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. |
| Gail L. Westover | Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP |
| Maureen D. Hardwick | Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP |
| Daniel A. Tishman | Fish & Richardson P.C. |
| Joseph D. Edmondson, Jr. | Foley & Lardner LLP |
| Mindy Johnson | Fried Frank |
| Daniel Chung | Gibson Dunn |
| Emily P. Grim | Gilbert LLP |
| Jaime A. Santos | Goodwin Procter LLP |
| Barry J. Pollack | Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP |
| Matthew S. Hellman | Jenner & Block LLP |
| Nathaniel G. Ward | Jones Day |
| Amadou Diaw | King & Spaulding |
| Jennifer G. Levy | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Andy Clubok | Latham & Watkins LLP |
| Jonathan Su | Latham & Watkins LLP |
| Joshua A. Levy | Levy Firestone Muse LLP |
| Alex C. Lakatos | Mayer Brown LLP |
| William P. Barry | Miller & Chevalier Chartered |
| Douglas W. Baruch | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP |
| Brian Whittaker | Nixon Peabody LLP |
| Jay Williams | Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
| Susan E. Huhta | Outten & Golden LLP |
| Allyson Baker | Paul Hastings |
| Scott Sher | Paul Weiss |
| Justin Alex | Proskauer Rose LLP |
| Rebecca Rizzo | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
| John P. Relman | Relman Colfax PLLC |
| Leon Rodriguez | Seyfarth Shaw LLP |
| Steven P. Hollman | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
| Tara L. Reinhart | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP |
| Julia M. Jordan | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP |
| Patrick McGlone | Ullico Inc. |
| Emilio W Cividanes | Venable LLP |
| Theodore A. Howard | Wiley Rein LLP |
| Liat Rome | Williams & Connolly LLP |
| Amandeep S. Sidhu | Winston & Strawn |
| Chantale Fiebig | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP |
| Tara M. Swaminatha | ZeroDay Law LLC |
| Dwight P. Bostwick | Zuckerman Spaeder |
| Jamie S. Gardner | Retired |
| Stephen J. Harburg | Retired |
| Judith Winston | Retired |
| Ashley N. Tomillo | ArentFox Schiff LLP |
| Emily B. Lewis | ArentFox Schiff LLP |
| Laurel LaMontagne Chanock | ArentFox Schiff LLP |
| Mario A. Torrico | ArentFox Schiff LLP |
| Megan E. Daily | ArentFox Schiff LLP |
| Shoshana Golden | ArentFox Schiff LLP |
| Danait Mengist | Arnold & Porter LLP |
| Mei-Wah Lee | Arnold & Porter LLP |
| Preston Smith | Arnold & Porter LLP |
| Erin Steele | Barnes & Thornburg LLP |
| Caleb Robertson | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| Jordan Michael Christian | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| Jackie Brune | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| Phoebe M. Wolfe | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| Dana Busgang | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| Alisa Tiwari | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| Amee Frodle | Covington and Burling LLP |
| Nicole Robinson | Covington and Burling LLP |
| William Tucker | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Olivia Luzzio | Eversheds Sutherland |
| Catherine H. Betts | Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP |
| J.D. Williams | Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP |
| James W. Cowan | Fish & Richardson P.C. |
| Kareem W. Ramadan | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| Connor Leydecker | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| Brandon Levey | Gilbert LLP |
| Samone Ijoma | Gilbert LLP |
| Mary Marshall | Jenner and Block LLP |
| Alyssa Bernstein | Jenner and Block LLP |
| Kara Brandeisky | Jenner and Block LLP |
| Olamide S. Orebamjo | Jones Day |
| Victoria F. Brown | Jones Day |
| Christopher J. Rydberg | Latham & Watkins LLP |
| Juliana M. Andonian | Levy Firestone Muse LLP |
| Vionna Moore | Mayer Brown LLP |
| Sandeep A. Prasanna | Miller & Chevalier |
| Brittany Huamani | Miller & Chevalier |
| Jackson Hagen | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
| Ron Williams | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
| Diogo Metz | Paul Hastings LLP |
| Michelle Liu | Paul Hastings LLP |
| Ata Akiner | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
| Laura Killalea | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
| Nicole Steinberg | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
| Corey Rogoff | Proskauer Rose LLP |
| Shannon McGowan | Proskauer Rose LLP |
| Erica Jones | Proskauer Rose LLP |
| Abraham J. Shanedling | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
| Paulina Olivares | Sidley Austin LLP |
| Oge Maduike | Sidley Austin LLP |
| Anisa A. Somani | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP |
| Kaitlin Iwanowski | Venable LLP |
| Bianca Volpicelli | Venable LLP |
| Angelique Ball | Venable LLP |
| Victoria Villella | Venable LLP |
| Nya Gavin | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP |
| Sydnei Jones | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP |
| Morgan Huston | Wiley Rein LLP |
| Kimberly S. Alli | Wiley Rein LLP |
| Tania Martinez | Wilkinson Stekloff |
| J. Tyler Knoblett | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| Lindsay Hemminger | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| Maggie MacCurdy | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| Annie E. Showalter | Williams & Connolly LLP |
| Gannam E. Rifkah | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP |
| Alyssa Howard Card | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
| Trillium Chang | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
Director and Trustee Affiliations are for identification purposes only.