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
Avis Buchanan, Co-Chair
Brian D. Schneider, Co-Chair
ArentFox Schiff LLP
Justin Alex, Treasurer
Proskauer Rose 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 | Arnold & Porter |
| 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 |
| Jackie Papish | 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. |
| Wilson Barmeyer | Eversheds Sutherland (US) 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 |
| Veronica Dragalin | Jones Day |
| Amadou Diaw | King & Spalding |
| Jennifer G. Levy | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Andy Clubok | 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 |
| 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 |
| Joseph Davis | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| Nathaniel G. Ward | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| Brenda Lee | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr 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 |
| Sarah Tinaphong | Akin Gump |
| Olive Lee | Akin Gump |
| Amelie Cekauskas | ArentFox Schiff LLP |
| 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 |
| Mei-Wah Lee | Arnold & Porter |
| Maryanne Magnier | Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP |
| Michelle Rosario | Barnes & Thornburg LLP |
| Caleb Robertson | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| Jackie Brune | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| Phoebe M. Wolfe | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| Rebecca Ojserkis | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| Marjory Marquardt | Cooley LLP |
| Ahmad Hassan | Covington & Burling LLP |
| Alexandra Widas | Covington & Burling LLP |
| William Tucker | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Olivia Luzzio | Eversheds Sutherland |
| Catherine H. Betts | Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP |
| Kristen Cain | Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP |
| Elizabeth DeToro | Fish & Richardson P.C. |
| Jonathan Picado | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP |
| Demia Smith | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP |
| Kareem W. Ramadan | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| Brandon Levey | Gilbert LLP |
| Brittney Welch | Gilbert LLP |
| Samone Ijoma | Gilbert LLP |
| Kara Brandeisky | Jenner and Block LLP |
| Mary Marshall | Jenner and Block LLP |
| Olamide S. Orebamjo | Jones Day |
| Victoria F. Brown | Jones Day |
| Sravan Tumuluri | King & Spalding LLP |
| Christopher J. Rydberg | Latham & Watkins LLP |
| Juliana M. Andonian | Levy Firestone Muse LLP |
| Vionna Moore | Mayer Brown LLP |
| Sandeep A. Prasanna | Miller & Chevalier |
| Robert Cetrino | Miller & Chevalier |
| Martha Medina | Nixon Peabody LLP |
| Jackson Hagen | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
| Ron Williams | Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
| Diogo Metz | Paul Hastings LLP |
| Michelle Liu | Paul Hastings LLP |
| Olivia Pennoyer | Paul Hastings LLP |
| Will Farrell | Paul Hastings LLP |
| Isa Herrera Moya | Paul, Weiss |
| 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 |
| Erica Jones | Proskauer Rose LLP |
| Shannon McGowan | Proskauer Rose LLP |
| Abraham J. Shanedling | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
| Abby Scheper | Sidley Austin LLP |
| Oge Maduike | Sidley Austin LLP |
| Whitney Beber | Sidley Austin LLP |
| Lindsey Wright | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP |
| Sophie Ossip | Venable LLP |
| Sarah Picchini | Venable LLP |
| Benjamin Rutan | Venable LLP |
| Sydnei Jones | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP |
| Kimberly S. Alli | Wiley Rein LLP |
| Morgan Huston | Wiley Rein LLP |
| Guus Duindam | Wilkinson Stekloff |
| Tania Martinez | Wilkinson Stekloff |
| Allison Eisen | Williams & Connolly |
| Maggie MacCurdy | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| Meghan Olivar | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| Amir Wright | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| Courtney Murray | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP |
| Aaron Chu | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
| Brian Beaton | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
Director and Trustee Affiliations are for identification purposes only.