Our staff is comprised of individuals who are the best and brightest in their fields, committed to dismantling injustice and pursuing lasting change.
Our Staff
Kelechi Agbakwuru
Housing Justice Counsel
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Carlos Andino
Associate Counsel
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Sophia Balemian-Spencer
Associate Counsel
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Kaitlin Banner
Deputy Legal Director
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Sarah Bessell
Counsel
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Renee Brandon
Receptionist and Facilities Supervisor
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Helen Cordero
Workers' Rights Advocate
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Dennis Corkery
Interim Supervising Counsel
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Raymond Dodd
Paralegal
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Ryan Downer
Legal Director
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Olivia Fajardo
Paralegal
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Nadya Harrison
Housing Justice Advocate/Investigator
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Maggie Hart
Senior Counsel
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Giovanni Jackson
Operations Specialist
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Rochelle Jones
Chief Financial Officer
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Joanne Lin
Executive Director
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Stacey M. Litner
Parole Program and Advocacy Lead
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Megan Luckenbaugh
Senior Development Associate
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Joselyn Machado
Paralegal
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Kristin McGough
Interim Supervising Counsel
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Mirela Missova
Interim Supervising Counsel
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Melissa Nussbaum
Development Director
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Linda Paris
Communications Director
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Marja Plater
John E. Nolan Youth Justice Senior Counsel
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Jonathan M. Smith
Senior Special Counsel for Police Accountability and Criminal Legal System Reform
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Chelsea Sullivan
Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow
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Joanna Wasik
Supervising Employment Counsel
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Kent Withycombe
Education Justice Advisor
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+ Not yet admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia, but admitted to practice law in another jurisdiction. Practicing law in the District of Columbia under the supervision of Washington Lawyers’ Committee attorneys barred in the District of Columbia pursuant to D.C. Court of Appeals Rule 49(c)(9)(B).
++ Not yet admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia, but admitted to practice law in another jurisdiction. Practice limited to federal court matters.
+++ Not admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and not engaged in the practice of law.
Our Leadership
Officers
Jamie S. Gardner, Co-Chair
Paul Hastings LLP
Claudia A. Withers, Co-Chair
Civil Rights Corps
Kevin H. Metz, Immediate Past Co-Chair
Latham & Watkins LLP
Paul M. Hamburger, Treasurer
Proskauer Rose LLP
Joanne Lin
Executive Director (ex officio)
Board Members
| Charles W. Johnson IV | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP |
| Alexis Collins | Amazon |
| Brian D. Schneider | ArentFox Schiff LLP |
| John A. Freedman | Arnold & Porter LLP |
| John C. Keeney, Jr. | Association of Zoos and Aquariums |
| Elizabeth B. McCallum | Baker & Hostetler LLP |
| Roscoe C. Howard | Barnes & Thornburg LLP |
| J. David Folds | Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C. |
| Matthew D. Slater | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| Joseph M. Sellers | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| George D. Ruttinger | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| 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 |
| Matthew W. Howard | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP |
| Emily P. Grim | Gilbert LLP |
| Howard S. Hogan | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| Barry J. Pollack | Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP |
| Matthew S. Hellman | Jenner & Block LLP |
| Thomas G. Allen | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP |
| W. Neil Eggleston | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Jennifer G. Levy | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Stavroula E. Lambrakopoulos | K&L Gates LLP |
| Joshua A. Levy | Levy Firestone Muse LLP |
| Alex C. Lakatos | Mayer Brown LLP |
| Omar Vincent Melehy | Melehy & Associates LLC |
| William P. Barry | Miller & Chevalier Chartered |
| Douglas W. Baruch | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP |
| G. Brian Busey | Morrison & Foerster LLP |
| Caitlin M. Kasmar | Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
| Susan E. Huhta | Outten & Golden LLP |
| Jeannie S. Rhee | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP |
| John M. Devaney | Perkins Coie LLP |
| Lee G. Petro | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
| John P. Relman | Relman Colfax PLLC |
| David L. Douglass | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
| Steven P. Hollman | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
| Mark P. Guerrera | Sidley Austin LLP |
| Stephen J. Harburg | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP |
| Harry Lee | Steptoe & Johnson LLP |
| Julia M. Jordan | Sullivan & Cromwell LLP |
| Richard W. Snowdon III | Trainum, Snowdon & Deane, P.C. |
| Patrick McGlone | Ullico Inc. |
| Theodore A. Howard | Wiley Rein LLP |
| Beth Wilkinson | Wilkinson Stekloff |
| Thomas G. Hentoff | Williams & Connolly LLP |
| Joseph G. Davis | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| Brenda Lee | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP |
| William W. Taylor III | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
| Avis Buchanan | |
| Kelsi Corkran | |
| David Leviss | |
| Judith Winston |
| Emily Gerry | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP |
| Aleena Ijaz | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP |
| Shoshana Golden | Arent Fox LLP |
| Laurel Lamontagne | Arent Fox LLP |
| Destiny Planter | Arent Fox LLP |
| Danait Mengist | Arnold & Porter LLP |
| Erin Steele | Barnes & Thornburg LLP |
| Stephanie M. Hines | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP |
| Cathy Lian | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP |
| Jessica Hollis | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| Rebecca Ojserkis | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| Harini Srinivasan | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| Phoebe Wolfe | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| Roy Abernathy | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Mary Marston | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Ellie Riegel | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| William Tucker | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Amadi Anene | DLA Piper |
| Daniel Morris | Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP |
| Catherine Betts | Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP |
| James Cowan | Fish & Richardson P.C. |
| Jacob N. Heller | Foley & Lardner LLP |
| Renuka Santhanagopalan | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP |
| Emily Lamm | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| Connor Leydecker | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| Kareem Ramadan | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| Kristine M. Hansen | Gilbert LLP |
| Brandon Levey | Gilbert LLP |
| Sarah Sraders | Gilbert LLP |
| Virginia Selden McCorkle | Goodwin Procter LLP |
| Carolyn A. DeLone | Hogan Lovells US LLP |
| Victoria Hall-Palerm | Jenner & Block LLP |
| Krystalyn Kinsel | Jenner & Block LLP |
| Claire M. Lally | Jenner & Block LLP |
| Mary Marshall | Jenner & Block LLP |
| Eric Petry | Jenner & Block LLP |
| Dean Brower | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Demisse Selassie | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Drew Bridgewater | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Eric Petry | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Jean Hyun | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Madeline Gootman | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Nick Teleky | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Rachel Clarke | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Alanna Horan | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Caroline Darmody | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Isel Bedgood | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| C.J. Rydberg | Latham & Watkins LLP |
| Naomi Zuckerman | Latham & Watkins LLP |
| Juliana Andonian | Levy Firestone Muse LLP |
| Brandon Dennis | Mayer Brown LLP |
| Christen B’anca Glenn | Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. |
| Neaha P. Raol | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP |
| Anthony Carral | Morrison & Foerster LLP |
| Jackson Hagen | Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
| Cierra Newman | Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
| Jude C. Nwaokobia | Outten & Golden |
| Ariel V. Giumarelli | Paul Hastings LLP |
| Patricia Liverpool | Paul Hastings LLP |
| Michael A. Warley, Jr. | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
| Erica T. Jones | Proskauer Rose LLP |
| Shannon McGowan | Proskauer Rose LLP |
| Corey I. Rogoff | Proskauer Rose LLP |
| Charrise L. Alexander | Ropes & Gray LLP |
| Justin A. Benson | Sidley Austin LLP |
| Cayla Calderwood | Sidley Austin LLP |
| Ryan J. Strasser | Troutman Sanders LLP |
| Edward C. Beach, Jr. | Venable LLP |
| Patricia Drennan | Venable LLP |
| Dunham V. Janney | Venable LLP |
| Shannon E. Twiss | Venable LLP |
| Nicolette Wolfrey | Venable LLP |
| Tyler Bridegan | Wiley Rein LLP |
| Morgan Huston | Wiley Rein LLP |
| Jacqueline L. Rome | Williams & Connolly LLP |
| Annie Showalter | Williams & Connolly LLP |
| Elizabeth Wilson | Williams & Connolly LLP |
| Anna Jugo | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| John T. Knoblett | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| Stephanie L. Miner | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| JoAnna B. Suriani | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
| Gannam Rifkah | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP |
| Nick DiCarlo | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
| Casey Jonas | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
The Corporate Advisory Board (CAB) has been in existence since 2010 and was created to offer the business community the opportunity to participate with the Committee in accomplishing our mission of addressing issues of discrimination and poverty in our community.
The CAB companies offer business perspectives and advice on Committee matters; work with Committee lawyers and co-counsel to provide legal services and support on Committee cases; serve as partners with the Committee’s Education Project in the DC public schools; and attend Committee events throughout the year while establishing closer ties with our many supporting law firms.
The Committee is pleased to thank and recognize our CAB Members:
Members:
BDO, Anthony M. Lendez
BDO, Nidhi Rao
Savills, Richard Rome
Members of the WLC’s Board of Directors provide leadership in building relationships with the legal business community to increase support for the Committee. CAB membership is for a 12-month period from the month your membership begins.
Corporate Outreach Committee:
The Board’s Corporate Outreach Committee is chaired by Jennifer G. Levy of Kirkland & Ellis LLP.
For more information about the Corporate Advisory Board, please contact Gregg Kelley