Lisa是NYLAG高层领导的一部分，负责监督我们的法律计划，针对员工的专业培训计划以及战略规划。她于2003年加入NYLAG，担任职员律师，此后担任过多个职位，包括婚姻与家庭法部门的代理总监和副总监，在她的指导下，他们领导着一群致力于辩护的律师，代表着家庭，婚姻中亲密伴侣暴力行为的幸存者，以及移民法问题，以及战略计划主管。此前，Lisa在国家地方检察官协会工作，在那里她协助开展了有关家庭暴力，性侵犯和法证证据的培训。丽莎与圣约翰大学法学院共同担任家庭暴力临床中心的副主任。
巴克内尔大学，文学学士
乔治华盛顿大学法学院，法学博士
纽约县律师协会的公共服务奖，获得者
法庭倡导者奖，获奖者
反对家庭暴力律师委员会成员
纽约市律师协会家庭法院/家庭法律委员会前成员
Shani是NYLAG家庭暴力法律部门的副总监，也是RISE项目的项目总监。 Shani与成人和移民青年的亲密伴侣暴力，性虐待和性攻击的幸存者合作。除了自己的执业外，Shani还通过直接代理婚姻法，家庭法和移民法事务来监督为这些人群服务的员工。 Shani领导培训并参加有关实体法的小组讨论；与遭受创伤和虐待的幸存者合作；创伤的心理，生理和生理影响；并提供以客户为中心的创伤知情代表。此前，Shani是Safe Horizon移民法项目的高级监管律师，并且是南部非洲地区耶稣会难民服务的宣传和传播官。
乔治敦大学法学院，法学博士
埃默里大学文学士
纽约妇女律师协会家庭暴力委员会，联合主席
反对家庭暴力律师委员会成员
ICE法院外联盟，成员
纽约市VAWA倡导者小组成员
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.
马萨诸塞州福特汉姆大学
University of San Francisco, B.A.
Amanda最初是NYLAG家庭暴力临床中心的法学学生来到NYLAG。法学院毕业后，阿曼达（Amanda）获得了斯卡登奖学金（Skadden Fellowship），为来自非洲和中东的亲密伴侣暴力行为的幸存者提供全面的家庭和移民法律服务。阿曼达（Amanda）于2009年返回纽约州立大学洛杉矶分校（NYLAG）担任职员律师，代表幸存者处理家庭，婚姻，上诉和移民事务。她于2015年成为监督律师，并于2016年成为副总监。阿曼达（Amanda）为员工和社区提供有关家庭暴力，家庭和移民法的实质性法律问题的培训。
阿曼达（Amanda）还共同领导家庭暴力临床中心，在那里，法律系学生根据学生执业令对家庭犯罪，监护和探视案件进行诉讼。该诊所与圣约翰大学法学院合作，在那里她是一名副教授。
法学博士学位（JD）
福特汉姆大学，文学学士
纽约市律师协会家庭暴力委员会主席
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。
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
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。
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（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。
《纽约法律杂志》“榜样奖”律师，获奖者
纽约公共利益律师费利克斯·菲什曼非凡倡导奖，获奖者
美国国家老年法学院院长奖，获奖者
获得公平项目“正义奖”，获奖者
纽约州律师协会老年法科医疗保险委员会联席主席
布鲁克林邻居委员会成员
纽约大学法学院，法学博士
Ed于2017年8月（同月）加入NYLAG，担任租户权利部门（TRU）的副总监。 租客的律师权已成为纽约市的法律。埃德（Ed）监督TRU的皇后区团队并协助指导 新的和最近的法学院毕业生成为下一代律师的一部分 纽约市的房客在维护房屋，保持家人稳定和避免搬家方面大为振奋 无家可归。埃德（Ed）在皇后县艾滋病中心（代表贫民窟）开始了他的法律职业生涯 在房屋法院，家庭法院以及各个行政法庭中均接受过HIV阳性的人员。 在加入NYLAG之前，埃德（Ed）是基于社区的非营利性Housing Works，Inc.公司的一名律师，在那里他几乎专门为客户处理与住房有关的事务。
纽约城市大学法学院，法学博士
纽约大学BFA
自2010年以来，Rose Marie Cantanno代表房屋所有者处理止赎诉讼的所有方面。此外，她主张在州和市两级保护房屋所有者。在NYLAG工作之前，她曾在Liotta＆Cantanno，LLP房地产律师事务所担任合伙人十二年，该律师事务所专门代表买方，卖方和贷方处理住宅房地产交易。
布鲁克林法学院，法学博士
亨特学院，文学学士
梅利莎（Melissa）在该部门广泛实践的所有领域中，向移民保护部门（IPU）的团队提供法律和程序指导。她于2008年在NYLAG开始了她的职业生涯，在IPU担任了七年以上的职员律师和监督律师。在担任这些职务期间，梅利莎（Melissa）处理了广泛的移民事务，包括遣返辩护，庇护和为暴力幸存者提供救济。 2015年，梅利莎（Melissa）加入国际救援委员会（IRC）担任移民事务主管，负责制定全机构范围内的移民政策和惯例，并监督IRC 24个外地办事处对移民现场工作人员的监督。作为卡多佐法学院的兼职教授，她在那里教授移民法课程。梅利莎（Melissa）于2019年重新加入NYLAG。
法学院毕业后，梅利莎（Melissa）在Paul，Weiss，Rifkind，Wharton＆Garrison LLP担任了三年的诉讼律师，处理了一系列复杂的商业诉讼和无偿诉讼，包括被拘留的和未拘留的庇护案件。
法学博士乔治敦大学法律中心
高露洁大学文学士
Ryan is the project director of NYLAG’s Veterans Practice, which provides assistance and advice to low-income veterans in the areas of VA benefits, discharge upgrades, public benefits, housing, consumer rights, and advance directives and planning. Ryan also designed and runs an experiential project for students at Columbia Law School, which has been in operation since the fall of 2021. Prior to joining NYLAG, Ryan worked as lecturer in law and attorney fellow at the University of Miami Health Rights Clinic’s Veterans Rights Project. He also worked as the director of Veteran Legal Support Services at Operation Sacred Trust, a Supportive Services for Veteran Families-funded non-profit organization focused on assisting homeless veterans. Ryan previously served as chair of the American Bar Association’s Military and Veterans Health Law Interest Group and participated in National Science Foundation research on Veteran Treatment Courts across the country.
NYLAG的租户权利部门代表低收入的纽约市租户，并通过在驱逐案件中为他们辩护并根据租户保护法积极主张其权利，努力为客户维护安全和负担得起的住房。在成为董事之前，乔纳森曾担任TRU的监督律师。在此之前，乔纳森（Jonathan）是纽约州立大学洛杉矶分校（NYLAG）风暴响应小组的监督律师，代表受桑迪影响的家庭处理与消费者有关的法律事务，尤其是与不道德的家庭装修承包商有关的问题。在加入NYLAG之前，乔纳森（Jonathan）在金融诊所工作，在那里他为处于赎回权辩护，收债辩护，税收和破产等领域的纽约人遭受贫困和亲密伴侣暴力幸存者处理消费者法律案件。
教育，奖项和隶属关系：
康涅狄格大学法学院，法学博士
哥伦比亚大学，文学学士
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.
Brown University, B.A.
New York University Law School, J.D.
Mario领导一个部门，负责为NYLAG客户和一般纽约人提供财务支持。他已经在该领域工作了八年，主要担任财务顾问和教练，以及项目负责人，培训师和技术援助提供者。他负责管理一个由13名顾问和教练组成的团队，每年为3,000多个客户提供服务。
马萨诸塞州纽约市立学院
英国工商管理学院巴鲁克学院
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.
福特汉姆大学法学院，法学博士
纽约大学BFA
玛丽亚·亨特（Maria Hunter）领导公共利益部门（PBU），该部门的工作是确保陷入贫困的家庭，儿童和老年人以及残疾人，退伍军人和其他弱势人群能够获得他们应得的公共利益，包括公共援助，退伍军人福利，SNAP福利，医疗补助，医疗保险，社会保障残疾保险和补充保障收入。 PBU还提供生命计划协助，以帮助客户将来获得并维持这些关键利益。玛丽亚（Maria）以前是“老年法律实践”的监督律师，她领导着一个团队，代表高级客户处理有关获取公共利益，预先计划和虐待老年人的问题。
纽约大学法学院，法学博士
Randal过去20年曾在NYLAG工作，首先是特别诉讼部门的工作律师，然后是部门主管，现在是总法律顾问。作为总顾问，他在合同，人员和合规性问题上为总裁，高级管理团队和计划主管提供帮助。兰德尔（Randal）还是所有员工在法律职业道德方面的内部资源，并与NYLAG董事会就非营利性治理事宜进行合作。他还负责监督涉及NYLAG的法律事务。在加入NYLAG之前，Randal是第二巡回法院职员检察官办公室的法律文书专员，也是哥伦比亚特区法律援助协会的Georgetown研究员。
哥伦比亚法学院，法学博士
哈佛大学文学士
纽约县律师协会的公共服务奖，获得者
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.
University of Colorado, B.A.
Alison于2016年加入NYLAG，在营利和非营利部门的会计，审计和财务管理领域拥有15年的经验。在加入NYLAG之前，Alison曾在瑞士信贷和福特模型公司任职。她曾担任Jitasa（一家专注于非营利组织的外包会计公司）的财务副总裁，在此期间，她在应对非营利组织面临的复杂财务挑战方面拥有丰富的经验和热情。她以这种身份与50多个组织合作，包括慈善机构：水，纽约关怀基金会和炮台公园保护组织。
里海大学，理学学士
Sara管理NYLAG的行政和运营，包括人力资源，信息技术和办公室管理。她负责开发和维护整个办公室的系统，以跟踪结果并提高生产率，并与财务部密切合作以监控预算和报告，并为高级管理层提供领导和指导，包括多年战略规划。萨拉还负责NYLAG的开发团队，该团队负责该组织的创收。
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。
纽约大学MPA
康涅狄格大学，文学学士
海伦负责个人和企业捐赠。 Helen与NYLAG律师和员工合作，以增加对我们重要计划的支持和知名度。在加入NYLAG之前，Helen在儿童学院，INCLUDEnyc和The Glaucoma Foundation担任领导角色的程序和开发能力。
哥伦比亚大学，MSW
圣十字学院，文学学士
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.
New York Law School, J.D.
University of Connecticut, B.A.
Randye Retkin，Esq。目前是NYLAG部门LegalHealth的董事和创始人。 LegalHealth是美国最大的医疗法律合作伙伴，为医院和社区卫生组织（包括一些VA医院）提供服务。在加入NYLAG之前，雷特金女士曾是同性恋者健康危机法律服务总监，该组织是美国历史最悠久，规模最大的服务于艾滋病毒/艾滋病患者的组织。 Retkin女士曾在纽约律师协会担任公益律师和法律服务志愿者（VOLS）的工作律师，在那里她建立了VOLS移民权利项目。她是《纽约州待命监护法》的合著者，并帮助带头推动了该法的最新扩展，以协助移民家庭。她还是《纽约卫生相关法律服务法》的作者。
纽约移民联盟，创始成员
国家癌症法律服务网络，创始成员
OneCityHealth执行委员会成员
纽约市律师协会道德委员会成员
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.
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
达芙妮（Daphne）在纽约州立大学洛杉矶分校（NYLAG）的工作中，监督了止赎房屋项目，金融赋权办公室的债务追收项目以及纽约州法院在布朗克斯，皇后区和里士满的自愿性一日律师项目（VLFD）的司法救助程序。县。她还是消费者经济正义和立法方面的公开倡导者
通过当地纽约市联合组织和各种社区研讨会的介绍来改变。达芙妮曾在北曼哈顿改善公司的法律服务部门执业过家庭法，代表亲密暴力幸存者在保护，拘留和探视程序中代表着暴力行为，并倡导幸存者的消费者权益。她还曾在NYLAG的家庭法部门实习。达芙妮曾在各种政府和非营利机构工作，包括纽约市消费者事务部，布鲁克林区检察官办公室，法律援助协会，反诽谤联盟和芝加哥公共艺术集团。
纽约县律师协会 公共服务奖，获奖者
全国消费者权益保护者协会教育委员会委员
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.
Fordham University, J.D., cum laude
Jessica Selecky oversees NYLAG’s Special Education Unit (SEU), which works to ensure that low-income New York City children with disabilities receive the free appropriate public education guaranteed to them by federal and state law. SEU attorneys represent parents of children with disabilities by advocating at Individualized Education Program meetings, seeking funding for independent educational evaluations, and obtaining appropriate educational services and school placements, including reimbursement for private specialized schools for children with disabilities and home-based programming.
Before joining NYLAG in 2019, Jessica was a clinical law fellow and staff attorney at Rutgers Law School in the Education Health Law Clinic’s H.E.A.L. Collaborative—an innovative medical legal partnership project—where she represented families of children with disabilities in Newark, New Jersey in a variety of civil legal services matters, including special education cases. Prior to her work at Rutgers, Jessica was a law clerk on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi and a litigation associate at the law firm of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton.
Rutgers Law School, J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif
New York University, B.A.
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.
耶鲁法学院，法学博士
威廉姆斯学院，文学学士
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。
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
In her role at NYLAG, Emily is responsible for institutional giving and managing the lifecycle of grants and contracts. Emily is also the main point of contact with our valued partners in government and philanthropy, whose support is critical in helping NYLAG achieve our mission. Prior to joining NYLAG, Emily worked in similar positions at the Police Athletic League of NYC, the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce, and St. Francis College.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, MPA
University of Delaware, BA
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。
纽约法学院法学博士，优等生
弗莱彻法学院，法学与外交硕士
格林内尔学院，文学学士
