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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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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Tanya Edelin
Chief Operating Officer
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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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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
Development Manager
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Joselyn Machado
Paralegal
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Kristin McGough
Interim Supervising Counsel
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Mirela Missova
Senior Counsel
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Melissa Nussbaum
Development Director
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Marja Plater
John E. Nolan Youth Justice Senior Counsel
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Claire Stalder
Paralegal
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Chelsea Sullivan
Georgetown Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow
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Joanna Wasik
Deputy Legal Director
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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
Joseph Davis, Co-Chair
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Claudia A. Withers, Co-Chair
Civil Rights Corps
Jamie S. Gardner, Immediate Past Co-Chair
Paul Hastings LLP
Brian D. Schneider , Treasurer
ArentFox Schiff LLP
Joanne Lin
Executive Director (ex officio)
Board Members
Charles W. Johnson IV | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld 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. |
Nowell Bamberger | 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 |
Emily P. Grim | Gilbert LLP |
Howard S. Hogan | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
Jaime A. Santos | Goodwin |
Barry J. Pollack | Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler LLP |
Matthew S. Hellman | Jenner & Block LLP |
Thomas G. Allen | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton 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 |
Caitlin M. Kasmar | Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP |
Susan E. Huhta | Outten & Golden LLP |
Jeannie S. Rhee | Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP |
Lee G. Petro | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
Justin Alex | Proskauer Rose LLP |
John P. Relman | Relman Colfax PLLC |
Leon Rodriguez | Seyfarth |
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 |
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 LLC |
Amandeep S. Sidhu | Winston & Strawn |
Dwight P. Bostwick | Zuckerman Spaeder |
Avis Buchanan | |
Kelsi Corkran | |
Kevin Metz | |
Judith Winston | |
Aleena Ijaz | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP |
Emily Gerry | Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP |
Austin Rettew | ArentFox Schiff LLP |
Mariam Creedon | ArentFox Schiff LLP |
Shoshana Golden | ArentFox Schiff LLP |
Mei-Wah Lee | Arnold & Porter LLP |
Danait Mengist | Arnold & Porter LLP |
Erin Steele | Barnes & Thornburg LLP |
Jessica Hollis | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
Theodore Salem-Mackall | Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP |
Dana Busgang | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
Harini Srinivasan | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
Phoebe Wolfe | Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC |
Will Tucker | Crowell & Moring LLP |
Mary Marston | Crowell & Moring LLP |
Ellie Riegel | Crowell & Moring LLP |
Roy Abernathy | Crowell & Moring LLP |
Amadi Anene | DLA Piper LLP (US) |
Catherine Betts | Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP |
James Cowan | Fish & Richardson P.C. |
Jake Heller | Foley & Lardner LLP |
Renuka Santhanagopalan | Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP |
Connor Leydecker | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
Emily Lamm | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
Kareem W. Ramadan | Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP |
Brandon Levey | Gilbert LLP |
Sarah A. Sraders | Gilbert LLP |
Virginia Selden McCorkle | Goodwin Procter LLP |
Alexandria Reid | Hogan Lovells LLP |
Carolyn Delone | Hogan Lovells LLP |
Eric E. Petry | Jenner & Block LLP |
Krystalyn Kinsel | Jenner & Block LLP |
Mary Marshall | Jenner & Block LLP |
Demisse Selassie | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
Drew Bridgewater | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
Isel Bedgood | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
Madeline A. Schoeffman | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
Nick Teleky | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
Susan Templeton | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
C.J. Rydberg | Latham & Watkins LLP |
Juliana Andonian | Levy Firestone |
Brandon Dennis | Mayer Brown LLP |
Alexandra Prime | Miller & Chevalier Chartered |
Prasanna Sandeep | Miller & Chevalier Chartered |
Anthony Carral | Morrison & Foerster LLP |
Jackson Hagen | Orrick LLP |
Patricia Liverpool | Paul Hastings LLP |
Ata Akiner | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
Caroline Block | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
Lauren Smith | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
Leighton Watson | Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP |
Corey I. Rogoff | Proskauer Rose LLP |
Shannon D. McGowan | Proskauer Rose LLP |
Erica T. Jones | Proskauer Rose LLP |
Abram Shanedling | Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP |
Cayla Calderwood | Sidley Austin LLP |
Paulina Olivares | Sidley Austin LLP |
Lea C. Mano | Venable LLP |
Sanskriti A. Neupane | Venable LLP |
Jasmine V. Martinez | Venable LLP |
Morenike I. Oyebade | Venable LLP |
Morgan Huston | Wiley Rein LLP |
Tyler Bridegan | Wiley Rein LLP |
Guus Duindam | Wilkinson Stekloff |
Tania Martinez | Wilkinson Stekloff |
Annie E. Showalter | Williams & Connolly LLP |
Monica Sharma | Williams & Connolly LLP |
John T. Knoblett | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
Maggie MacCurdy | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
Lindsay Hemminger | Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP |
Gannam E. Rifkah | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP |
Alyssa Howard | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
Cassandra T. Jonas | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
Trillium Chang | Zuckerman Spaeder LLP |
Bianca Spinosa | Eversheds Sutherland |
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