Courtney Ball is a human resources practitioner and people advocate. She takes great pride in her ability to empower people to authentically lead. Before joining NYLAG, she served as the inaugural director of people and culture at REFORM Alliance, a nonprofit organization advocating for just parole and probation laws and policies in the US. She also led the HR team at Eurasia Group and got her start working in the legal field in San Francisco. In her role as Chief Diversity and People Officer at NYLAG, Courtney is excited to build out the DEI strategy and provide transformative holistic service to our clients.
朱莉协调医院合作伙伴的培训课程,建立新的诊所,并监督LegalHealth的员工律师。朱莉(Julie)在雇佣法和保险法方面拥有丰富的经验,这是她LegalHealth业务的重点。在2002年加入LegalHealth之前,Julie是纽约Debevoise&Plimpton的合伙人。她为新泽西州美国地区法院的Alfred J. Lechner先生担任文书工作。朱莉(Julie)从1995年至1998年担任纽约市律师协会联邦法院委员会秘书,并为《审判准备:临检诉讼人手册》在美国纽约南区地方法院出庭(1997年)做出了贡献。
教育,奖项和隶属关系:
芝加哥大学,文学学士 福特汉姆大学法学院,法学博士 纽约市律师协会第24届年度法律服务奖,获奖者
希瑟·贝茨
LGBTQ法律项目主任
Heather监督代表LGBTQ纽约人的律师和律师助理团队处理一系列民事法律事务,包括家庭法,住房和就业歧视,移民以及姓名和性别标记的更改。她还领导该项目的系统宣传和公共教育工作。在加入NYLAG之前,Heather在康奈尔法学院(Cornell Law School)指导了Dreamer Pro Bono项目。她以前是HIV法律项目的高级职员律师,在该项目中代表HIV / AIDS患者。希瑟还是“移民平等”组织的“呼应绿色研究员”,并开始在该组织内部代表LGBTQ和寻求庇护和其他驱逐出境的HIV +移民。
教育,奖项和隶属关系:
纽约市立大学法学院 北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校学士 呼应绿色研究员
瓦莱丽·鲍嘉(Valerie Bogart)
伊夫林·弗兰克法律资源计划(EFLRP)主任
瓦莱丽(Valerie)从2002年到2013年4月移居纽约州立大学(NYLAG)以来,一直在自助社区服务公司(Eelfhelp Community Services,Inc.)指导EFLRP。EFLRP是一项全面的法律服务计划,倡导通过老年人获得老年人和残疾人的长期护理和其他医疗保健服务。通过网站NYHealthAccess.org直接代表,政策倡导,专业法律教育和在线资源相结合。此前,瓦莱丽(Valerie)是曼哈顿法律援助协会布鲁克林老年人和老年人法律服务办公室(纽约法律服务部的一部分)的医疗补助长期护理的诉讼和培训师,并且是美国法律协会的雷金纳德·希伯·史密斯研究员明尼阿波利斯的援助协会。她为律师和社会服务组织演讲并撰写大量文章,并曾在纽约市立大学和福特汉姆法学院教授辅助课程。
Maya Grosz comes to NYLAG after more than 20 years as a legal educator, facilitator, and legal services lawyer. Before joining NYLAG she served as a consultant facilitating conversations about antiracism, equity, and inclusion. From 2009-2019 she was a law professor and Director of the Legal Practice Curriculum at Seton Hall Law School, where she supervised the experiential practical skills courses and programs, and she taught in the first year Introduction to Lawyering course. Prior to her position at Seton Hall, she taught Lawyering for three years at New York University Law School. Before she entered teaching, Maya was an attorney at Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem, where she represented clients in a range of civil matters including abuse and neglect cases in family court, eviction proceedings, and federal police misconduct cases. In the year after law school graduation, Maya clerked for Magistrate Judge James C. Francis IV on the Southern District of New York.
教育,奖项和隶属关系:
Brown University, B.A. New York University Law School, J.D.
Director of Outreach and Access to Justice Programs
Sirrah Harris is NYLAG’s first-ever director of outreach and access to justice programs. She supervises and develops strategies for outreach and engagement through a number of community-based legal access projects including the Mobile Legal Help Center, Legal Hand, the UJA Safety and Stability Project, and the COVID-19 Legal Resource Hotline. These projects serve community members through partnerships with sites across NYC’s five boroughs to provide civil legal information, resources, and representation to individuals who otherwise may not have been able to access legal assistance. She supervises a team of lawyers, paralegals, and volunteers who are committed to the mission of increasing access to justice by providing quality legal services within communities that may not be reached by traditional legal offices.
Sirrah was most recently the project director for the Mobile Legal Help Center, which she will continue to lead. Prior to then, she worked as the onsite NYLAG attorney at the Legal Hand office in Crown Heights to provide legal resources, information, and referrals to unrepresented community members in a walk-in storefront office. Before that, she was a staff attorney in NYLAG’s Storm Response Unit, where she worked primarily with people affected by Superstorm Sandy on consumer issues. Before joining NYLAG, Sirrah worked at the Lenox Hill Neighborhood House as an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Fellow and staff attorney in their Workers’ Rights Project.
Nadia works to amplify NYLAG’s work, uplift the stories of clients, and elevate the expertise of staff to increase visibility and support for NYLAG’s mission and to further the fight for fair and equal access to justice. Prior to joining NYLAG, Nadia worked in similar roles to advance healthcare access and equity at Children’s Health Fund, ensure housing and supportive services for marginalized communities at Services for the Underserved, and to support survivors of violence and crime at Safe Horizon.
最近,Sara担任Hunter College机构发展部助理副总裁,在那里她建立了领导团队并为Hunter College Foundation(HCF)制定了组织策略。在加入Hunter College之前,Sara在纽约市的两家代理商中服务了十多年。此前,她是财政部助理专员,以及出租车和豪华轿车委员会的助理专员。
Khushbu started her legal career in NYLAG’s Housing Project, which is now the Tenants’ Rights Unit. NYLAG’s Tenants’ Rights Unit represents New York City tenants with low incomes and strives to preserve safe and affordable housing for its clients by defending them in eviction cases and by asserting their rights affirmatively under tenant protection laws. Before becoming Associate Director, Khushbu served as a Supervising Attorney in TRU. Prior to that, Khushbu was an Associate Supervising Attorney, Coordinating Attorney, Staff Attorney, and Poverty Justice Solutions Fellow in TRU. Before joining NYLAG, Khushbu was Pro Bono Scholar at the City Bar Justice Center working for the Elder Law Project, Cancer Advocacy Project, and Veterans Assistance Project.
教育,奖项和隶属关系:
New York Law School, J.D. University of Connecticut, B.A.
Amira Samuel is NYLAG’s director of the Pro Bono & Volunteer Unit. In this role, she builds and maintains NYLAG’s pro bono relationships and partnerships, developing new opportunities, special projects and initiatives that advance NYLAG’s mission, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) priorities and fundraising goals. Amira designs and oversees legal and best practice CLE trainings in collaboration with NYLAG attorneys and shapes and leads professional engagement and recruitment efforts for NYLAG’s law school, and emeritus attorneys. Previously, Amira was the pro bono manager at the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice and the director of Economic Justice Programs at FreeFrom. From 2010-2016, Amira represented Orthodox Jewish survivors of domestic violence in their civil and rabbinical court matters as the Project Eden Coordinator at NYLAG.
教育,奖项和隶属关系:
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D. University of California at Santa Cruz, B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, Highest Honors Judge Gertrude Mainzer Memorial Fellow
Anamaria Segura is the Project Director of NYLAG’s Employment Law Project. The ELP represents New Yorkers in a range of employment matters in federal and state court, and federal, state and local agencies, including employment discrimination, wage theft, sick and family leave issues, and denials of unemployment insurance. Anamaria has litigated cases on individual and class-wide bases, as well as appeals in the Appellate Division and Appellate Term. Prior to coming to NYLAG she was a Senior Staff Attorney at Mobilization for Justice (formerly MFY Legal Services), in the Workplace Justice Project and in the Consumer Rights Project.
Anamaria received her law degree from the Fordham University School of Law in 2007, where she graduated cum laude and received the Dean’s Special Achievement Award. She was awarded the Fordham University Rising Star award in 2015. Anamaria is a member of the New York chapter of the National Employment Lawyers’ Association and Bar Association of the City of New York.
教育,奖项和隶属关系:
Fordham University, J.D., cum laude
丹妮尔(Danielle Tarantolo)
Director, Special Litigation Unit
Danielle Tarantolo joined NYLAG’s Special Litigation Unit in May 2011. She became the Unit’s associate director in 2015, a co-director in 2017, and the director in 2021. She has litigated complex class actions on behalf of consumers who are low income, individuals with disabilities, recipients of public benefits, student loan borrowers, and others. Many of these cases have resulted in judgments or settlements that have brought critical relief—including expanded access to public benefits, education, accommodations, and due process, as well as financial compensation—to New Yorkers experiencing poverty.
Before joining NYLAG, Danielle spent three years as an associate at Jenner & Block, where she was honored with the firm’s pro bono award for her outstanding work on behalf of clients unable to afford private attorneys. Danielle clerked for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
教育,奖项和隶属关系:
耶鲁法学院,法学博士 威廉姆斯学院,文学学士
罗宾·塔诺夫斯基
专业诉讼人法律诊所主任
罗宾(Robyn)是纽约州南区专业律师协会NYLAG法律诊所的主任。她在纽约一家大型律师事务所从事复杂的商业诉讼和政府调查工作长达20年,之后于2016年加入NYLAG。在公司,她从事了大量无偿工作。在进入公司之前,她曾为美国第一巡回上诉法院的桑德拉·林奇(Sandra L. Lynch)以及纽约东区美国地方法院的爱德华·科曼(Edward R. Korman)担任文书工作。
教育,奖项和隶属关系:
哈佛法学院,法学博士 哈佛法律评论,执行编辑 耶鲁大学文学士 Phi Beta Kappa荣誉协会
乔迪·齐瑟默(Jodi Ziesemer)
移民保护处处长
乔迪领导着一支由创新和热情的移民倡导者组成的庞大团队。除了监督员工外,她还与高级管理层一起制定并实施该部门的战略构想,负责管理和报告赠款和可交付成果,并制定有效的计划来满足客户需求。在加入NYLAG之前,Jodi是天主教慈善机构的“无人陪伴未成年人计划”的监督律师。此外,在过去的十年中,她在移民审查执行办公室(移民法院)和美国公民及移民服务局工作,为各种各样的移民服务。乔迪曾在芝加哥国家移民司法中心担任移民上诉委员会代表,并在波士顿的菲茨杰拉德公司(Fitzgerald and Company,LLC)担任律师助理。乔迪曾在圣约翰大学(St. John's University)担任兼职教授。