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
Georgetown Women's Law & Public Policy Fellow
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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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Catherine Cone
Supervising Housing Counsel
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Helen Cordero
Workers' Rights Advocate
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Dennis Corkery
Senior Counsel
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Raymond Dodd
Paralegal
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Marc Efron
Senior Counsel
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Laura Graham
Associate Counsel
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Maggie Hart
Senior Counsel
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Brook Hill
Counsel
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Giovanni Jackson
Operations Specialist
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Rochelle Jones
Chief Financial Officer
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Gregg A. Kelley
Director of Development & Communications
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Jacqueline Kutnik-Bauder
Deputy Legal Director
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Stacey M. Litner
Parole Program and Advocacy Lead
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Charles (Chas) Lopez
Chief Operating Officer
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Megan Luckenbaugh
Grants Associate
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Joselyn Machado
Paralegal
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Kristin McGough
Counsel
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Mirela Missova
Counsel
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Leobardo Palacios
Development Associate
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Marja Plater
John E. Nolan Youth Justice Senior Counsel
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Jonathan M. Smith
Executive Director
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Joanna Wasik
Supervising Employment Counsel
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Kent Withycombe
Education Justice Advisor
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Katrina Weinert
Paralegal
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Caroline Zagraniczny
Housing Justice Organizer/Advocate
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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
George D. Ruttinger, Member
Crowell & Moring LLP
John A. Freedman, Member
Arnold & Porter LLP
Joseph G. Davis, Member
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Stavroula E. Lambrakopoulos, Member
K&L Gates LLP
Jennifer G. Levy, Member
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
William W. Taylor III, Member
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
Jonathan M. Smith
Executive Director (ex officio)
Board Members
| Charles W. Johnson IV | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP |
| Alexis Collins | Amazon |
| Brian D. Schneider | Arent Fox 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. |
| Caitlin M. Kasmar | Buckley LLP |
| Matthew D. Slater | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
| Joseph M. Sellers | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| George Breen | Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. |
| Lewis S. Wiener | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Brenda Lee | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP |
| Avis Buchanan | |
| Kelsi Corkran | |
| David Leviss | |
| Judith Winston |
| Erin A. Peters | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP |
| Stanley E. Woodward, Jr. | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP |
| Randall A. Brater | Arent Fox LLP |
| Marc L. Fleischaker | Arent Fox LLP |
| Wayne H. Matelski | Arent Fox LLP |
| Brooksley E. Born | Arnold & Porter LLP |
| Stuart J. Land | Arnold & Porter LLP |
| Steven G. Reade | Arnold & Porter LLP |
| Maria R. Coor | Baker & Hostetler LLP |
| James M. Auslander | Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. |
| Nessa H. Coppinger | Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. |
| Eric L. Klein | Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. |
| Harold L. Segall | Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. |
| Sandra M. Hanna | Bruch Hanna LLP |
| Katherine L. Halliday | Buckley LLP |
| Jonice Gray Tucker | Buckley LLP |
| John B. Williams III | Buckley LLP |
| Barry Coburn | Coburn & Greenbaum PLLC |
| Anthony Herman | Covington & Burling LLP |
| Peter B. Hutt II | Covington & Burling LLP |
| John W. Nields Jr. | Covington & Burling LLP |
| Alan A. Pemberton | Covington & Burling LLP |
| Matthew J. Schlesinger | Covington & Burling LLP |
| Seth A. Tucker | Covington & Burling LLP |
| Theodore Voorhees, Jr. | Covington & Burling LLP |
| Alan M. Wiseman | Covington & Burling LLP |
| Laura A. Foggan | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Brian T. McLaughlin | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Jerry A. Murphy | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Rebecca L. Springer | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Arian M. June | Debevoise & Plimpton LLP |
| Melissa Gomez Nelson | Dentons US LLP |
| Jerome B. Libin | Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP |
| Barry W. Graham | Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP |
| James N. Bierman Sr. | Foley & Lardner LLP |
| Paul R. Monsees | Foley & Lardner LLP |
| Paul S. Reichler | Foley Hoag LLP |
| Karen T. Grisez | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP |
| Robert E. Juceam | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP |
| Peter B. Edelman | Georgetown University Law Center |
| W. Hunter Winstead | Gilbert LLP |
| Brian T. Burgess | Goodwin |
| Patrick J. McCarthy | Greenberg Traurig LLP |
| Robert H. Kapp | Hogan Lovells US LLP |
| William J. Kolasky | Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP |
| Matthew L. Jacobs | Jones Day |
| Michael Knight | Jones Day |
| Claudia Callaway | Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP |
| Helen K. Michael | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP |
| Andrew B. Clubok | Latham & Watkins LLP |
| Andrew H. Marks | Law Offices of Andrew Marks |
| Charles R. Both | Law Offices of Charles R. Both |
| Tara J. Plochocki | Lewis Baach Kaufman Middlemiss PLLC |
| Michelle N. Webster | Mayer Brown LLP |
| Natalie A. Bennett | McDermott Will & Emery LLP |
| H. Guy Collier | McDermott Will & Emery LLP |
| Eugene I. Goldman | McDermott Will & Emery LLP |
| Britt Haxton | McDermott Will & Emery LLP |
| Jeremy M. White | McDermott Will & Emery LLP |
| Homer E. Moyer Jr. | Miller & Chevalier Chartered |
| Natalie A. Bennett | Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP |
| Stephen D. Brody | O’Melveny & Myers LLP |
| Patrick S. Campbell | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP |
| David J. Cynamon | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
| James V. Dick | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
| Matthew J. MacLean | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
| Andrew T. Karron | Reisman Karron Greene |
| Stephen T. Smith | Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC |
| Michael A. Schlanger | Schlanger Litigation Consulting LLC |
| Matthew D. Cutts | Squire Patton Boggs LLP |
| John L. Oberdorfer | Squire Patton Boggs LLP |
| Michael J. Baratz | Steptoe & Johnson LLP |
| Roger E. Warin | Steptoe & Johnson LLP |
| Joseph N. Onek | The Raben Group |
| David R. Berz | Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP |
| August Matteis, Jr. | Weisbrod Matteis & Copley PLLC |
| Thomas W. Brunner | Wiley Rein LLP |
| Benjamin C. Eggert | Wiley Rein LLP |
| Michael J. Gridley | Wiley Rein LLP |
| Parker J. Lavin | Wiley Rein LLP |
| Ana C. Reyes | Williams & Connolly LLP |
| Katherine M. Turner | Williams & Connolly LLP |
| Steven F. Cherry | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP |
| H. Guy Collier | Winston & Strawn LLP |
| Paul B. Hynes Jr. | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
| Carl S. Kravitz | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
| Eleanor H. Smith | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
| Charles J. Simpson Jr. | Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger, L.L.P. |
| Sara-Ann Determan | |
| Stanley J. Samorajczyk |
TRUSTEES EMERITI
| John C. Keeney, Jr. | Association of Zoos and Aquariums |
| Hershel Shanks | Biblical Archaeology Society |
| Peter B. Hutt | Covington & Burling LLP |
| Bingham B. Leverich | Covington & Burling LLP |
| Daniel M. Singer | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP |
| Prof. Robert H. Klonoff | Lewis & Clark Law School |
| Margaret Feinstein | Northwestern Mutual |
| David M. Dorsen | Sedgwick LLP |
| Leslie M. Turner | The Hershey Company |
| Donald T. Bucklin | The McCammon Group |
| Catherine A. Allen | The Santa Fe Group, Inc. |
| William L. Robinson | UDC David A. Clarke School of Law |
| Paul M. Wolff | Williams & Connolly LLP |
| Howard Willens | Wilsie Co LLC |
| Deanne C. Siemer | Wilsie Co LLC |
| Robert B. Wallace | Wilson Elser LLP |
| Tyrone Brown | |
| J. Patrick Hickey | |
| Gerald P. Norton | |
| Thomas P. Olson | |
| Robert P. Watkins III |
| 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 |
| Mei-Wah Lee | Arnold & Porter LLP |
| Adam M. Pergament | Arnold & Porter LLP |
| Erin Steele | Barnes & Thornburg LLP |
| Kacie L. Couch | Beveridge & Diamond P.C. |
| Brian W. Bartholomay | Buckley LLP |
| Jackson Hagen | Buckley LLP |
| Cierra Newman | Buckley LLP |
| Stephanie M. Hines | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP |
| Cathy Lian | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP |
| Alexander Urban | Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP |
| Brian Corman | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| Harini Srinivasan | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
| Roy Abernathy | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Paul Mathis | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Ellie Riegel | Crowell & Moring LLP |
| Amadi Anene | DLA Piper |
| Andrea Gordon | Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP |
| Daniel Morris | Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP |
| Catherine Betts | Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP |
| Jacob N. Heller | Foley & Lardner LLP |
| Renuka Santhanagopalan | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP |
| Matthew G. Aiken | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
| Emily Lamm | 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 |
| C.J. Rydberg | Latham & Watkins LLP |
| Naomi Zuckerman | Latham & Watkins LLP |
| Kelly Truesdale | 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 |
| Jude C. Nwaokobia | Outten & Golden |
| Christina Ferma | Paul Hastings LLP |
| Michael A. Warley, Jr. | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
| Erica T. Jones | 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 |
| Sarah T. Abutaleb | Venable LLP |
| Kirsten Bickelman | Venable LLP |
| Keagan Potts | Venable LLP |
| Christopher J. Ricigliano | Venable LLP |
| Sara Talebian | Venable LLP |
| Emily Tifft | Venable LLP |
| Tara L. Ward | 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 |
| James Barton | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP |
| Casey Jonas | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
| Anthony M. Ruiz | 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