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
Ayesha Ahsan
Equal Justice Works Fellow
Kaitlin Banner
Deputy Legal Director
Sarah Bessell
Counsel
Renee Brandon
Executive Office Administrator
Ariel Derby
Development Associate
Raymond Dodd
Paralegal
Ryan Downer
Legal Director
Ellie Driscoll
Legal Fellow
Tanya Edelin
Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer
Olivia Fajardo
Paralegal
Madeleine Gates
Counsel
Nadya Harrison
Advocate/Investigator
Leslie Faith Jones
Supervising Counsel
Joanne Lin
Executive Director
Mirela Missova
Supervising Counsel
Hannah Mullen
Counsel
Melissa Nussbaum
Development Director
Divinity Pittman
Associate Director of Development
Marja Plater
Senior Counsel
Caitlin Russi
Counsel
Angela Schlagel
Events Associate
Claire Stalder
Paralegal
Chelsea Sullivan
Associate Counsel
Dee Um
Legal Fellow
+ 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
Joseph Davis, Co-Chair
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Avis Buchanan, Co-Chair
Brian D. Schneider, Treasurer
ArentFox Schiff LLP
Joanne Lin
Executive Director (ex officio)
Board Members
| John A. Freedman | Arnold & Porter 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 |
| 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 |
| Gooch Patnaik | Desmarais 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 |
| 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 |
| Jennifer G. Levy | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Jonathan Su | Latham & Watkins 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 |
| Jay Williams | Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
| Susan E. Huhta | Outten & Golden LLP |
| Jamie S. Gardner | Paul Hastings LLP |
| Jeannie S. Rhee | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP |
| 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 |
| Mark P. Guerrera | Sidley Austin LLP |
| Stephen J. Harburg | Retired Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Partner |
| 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 |
| Beth Wilkinson | Wilkinson Stekloff |
| Brenda Lee | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr 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 |
| Judith Winston |
| 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 |
| Mary Marston | Crowell & Moring 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 |
| Sarah A. Sraders | Gilbert LLP |
| Mary Marshall | Jenner and Block LLP |
| Alyssa Bernstein | 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 |
| Sean Lee | Seyfarth Shaw LLP |
| Abraham J. Shanedling | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
| Paulina Olivares | Sidley Austin LLP |
| Bridget Pranzatelli | 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 |
| Jasmine V. Martinez | 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.