Staff

Nancy Lopez (@NancyLopezWCL)
Executive Director

Christina Jackson (@CJacksonWCL)
Deputy Director

Jean-Marie O’Neil
Administrative Director

Board of Directors

President
David Steib (@dgsteib)
Ayuda

Vice-President
Jaya Saxena (@thezenlegalmama)
White & Case

Treasurer
Jennifer Swedish
Government Attorney

Secretary
Nancy Drane (@nancydrane)
D.C. Access to Justice Commission

Communications Director
Alexis Applegate
Government Attorney

Julie Abbate
Just Detention

Lise Adams
D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center

Nicole Austin-Hillery (@NicoleAustinHil)
Human Rights Watch

Melinda Cooperman
D.C. Law Students in Court

Katie Dilks
Tulsa Community WorkAdvance

Rebecca Goldfrank
Public-Interest Attorney

Arusha Gordon
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights

Karen Grisez
Fried Frank

Susan Hoffman
Crowell & Moring

Philip Horton
Arnold & Porter

Barbara Kagan
Steptoe & Johnson

Jack Keeney Jr.
Association of Zoos & Aquariums 

Amelia Kegan
Friends Committee of National Legislation

Mary Kennedy
Arnold & Porter

Anne King (@annewarrenking)
Government Attorney

Mark Kovner
Kirkland & Ellis

Chinh Le
Legal Aid Society of D.C.

Paul Lee (@paulstangerlee)
Steptoe & Johnson

Carolyn Lerner
Government Attorney

Gregory Lipper (@theglipper)
Clinton & Peed

Michael Lukens
CAIR Coalition

Marcia Tavares Maack
Mayer Brown

Sarah Marcus
Government Attorney

Joy Moses (@joy_moses)
Public-Interest Attorney

Robin Murphy
Disability Rights Maryland

Taryn Wilgus Null
Government Attorney

Lawrence Schneider
Arnold & Porter

Amy Senier
Government Attorney

Prianka Sharma
Government Attorney

Emily Simmons
Government Attorney

Patricia Stasco
Government Attorney

Mia Sussman
Equal Justice Works

Elizabeth Symonds
Government Attorney

Jennifer Tschirch (@JenniferTschirc)
Georgetown University Law Center

Marsha Tucker
Arnold & Porter

Erich Veitenheimer
Cooley

Kelly Voss
Covington & Burling

Gwendolyn Washington
D.C. Law Students in Court

David Zvenyach (@vdavez)
Zvenyach LLC