Meet the Team


Michael Adame (he/him) / Senior Staff Attorney

Michael Adame is an attorney with a background in federal, state, and local regulatory practice and public policy. As a senior staff attorney on PRP’s Legal Team, Michael serves as program manager for PRP's 2024 Elections Hub and supports PRP's broader local democracy portfolio. He has led numerous efforts to combat abusive preemption of local governments by state actors, including in the areas of criminal justice, reproductive justice, and municipal administration. Prior to joining PRP, Michael worked on the 2020 campaign to elect President Joe Biden.

Michael graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and cum laude from Columbia University.

 

Larissa Briley (she/her) / Operations Associate

Larissa has a background in museum education, cinema management and theatre performance. She specializes in project management and communication, and brings organizational skills to PRP. She received her Masters in Literary and Cultural Studies and is interested in the intersection of arts and culture. Larissa is also a certified Pilates instructor and enjoys helping her clients feel better in their bodies.

 

Christina Schuler da Costa Ferro (they/them) / Paralegal

Christina Schuler da Costa Ferro is a 2021 graduate of NYU Gallatin with a degree in Revolutionary Politics and a minor in History. Their studies around resistance work led to their involvement in organized actions around New York, including the “Nine Weeks of Art and Action” held at the Whitney. Following undergrad, Christina worked as an Urban Fellow for the New York City government and a Legal Intern for New Sanctuary Coalition, an NYC-based immigrant advocacy organization. Their professional and organizing experience ultimately translates to an interest in connecting grassroots politics to municipal policy. 

During their time in New York, Christina has also worked as a supervisor and barista at a local coffee chain, a server, and retail-employee—experiences which have instilled in them a dedication for workers rights and fair compensation.

 

Tiana Franenberg (she/her) / Operations Director

Tiana works as the Operations & Special Projects Manager at Public Rights Project, bringing more than seven years of cross-functional team-building, project management, process development and systems optimization to the team. As Operations Manager, Tiana ensures the organization and its staff are set up to excel. Tiana oversees expense and budget management — aligning expenditures with PRP’s strategic goals and priorities — as well as managing its administration. She offers vital support to PRP’s Fellowships Program, aiding in the program design and execution for the current cohort. In addition, she manages PRP’s human resources.

Tiana comes to PRP from The Broad Center where she served as Assistant Director for The Broad Residency and Network Programming for three years; The Broad Center (TBC) at Yale School of Management fosters the ideas, policies, and leadership to help all students – particularly those from underserved communities – to learn and thrive.

Tiana served as the behind-the-scenes mastermind at TBC, toggling between project operations, grant reporting, data analysis, and translating live events into dynamic virtual settings during and in the wake of COVID. Tiana also steered TBC’s recent transition to the Yale School of Management.

In what feels like another life, Tiana was the former co-owner at The Hideout, a local restaurant in Minnesota. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Hamline University in St Paul’s, Minnesota. Tiana is a born and raised proud Angeleno.

 

Jill Habig / Founder and CEO at Public Rights Project

Jill Habig (she/her) is an attorney and political strategist with experience in political campaigns, policy advocacy, affirmative litigation, and public law. She has been named an Ashoka Fellow, Open Society Foundations Leadership in Government Fellow, and Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneur for her work building Public Rights Project.

Before founding PRP, Jill was the Deputy Campaign Manager and Policy Director for Kamala Harris for U.S. Senate, and served as policy director for her transition team. Prior to joining the campaign, she served as Special Counsel to then-Attorney General Harris, advising the Attorney General on key legal issues and policy initiatives. Her work emphasized consumer fraud, health, education, human trafficking, and civil rights, including issues related to gender and LGBT rights. In 2015, she led the creation and launch of the Attorney General’s Bureau of Children’s Justice and managed its work, including civil rights investigations of school districts, child welfare departments, and juvenile justice systems.

Jill was previously a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and served on the Affirmative Litigation Task Force at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, where she worked on the landmark trial challenging Proposition 8. She was a law clerk for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Edward M. Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Jill earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. from Georgetown University. She is currently a Lecturer at Berkeley Law School and teaches State and Local Impact Litigation.

 

Jocelyn Harmon (she/her) / Chief Development Officer

Jocelyn is a strategist, fundraiser, communicator, and coach. She served as chief philanthropy officer for Prosperity Now and vice president of development for Global Fund for Children. Prior to joining PRP, she ran her own consultancy to help nonprofits raise more money and advance social justice. Her clients included, NELP, Frontline Solutions, PushBlack, Giving Compass, BWHI, Rhia Ventures, and The Raben Group.

From 2018 - 2021, Jocelyn served as co-founder and editor of BlackHer, a media platform that celebrated the leadership of Black women and educated and inspired Black women to act for progressive change. In 2019, Jocelyn was a finalist for the Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship for her work at BlackHer.

Jocelyn speaks widely and has provided fundraising training to American University, Howard University, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She was a columnist for NonProfit Pro and served on the board of NTEN (Nonprofit Technology Network).

Jocelyn received her Bachelor of Arts in English from New York University and Master of Arts in Sociology from the University of Washington.

 

Eushrah Hossain (she/her) / Legal Fellow

Eushrah Hossain graduated from UCLA School of Law in May 2023 with a specialization in Critical Race Studies and Public Interest Law and Policy.  During law school, Eushrah clerked at the Public Rights Project, the Collective for Liberatory Lawyering, and the Los Angeles Superior Family Court. She also volunteered for the California Tribal Families Coalition and El Centro Visa Clinic.  Prior to law school, Eushrah worked at the Albuquerque District Attorney's office on pre-prosecution diversion efforts and at a nonprofit that offers mental health services to foster children and youth in juvenile detention in Los Angeles.  Eushrah graduated from Occidental College in 2018 with a B.A. in Cognitive Science and minor in Philosophy. She is from Albuquerque, New Mexico and is now based in Los Angeles, California.

 

Sophie House (she/her) / Staff Attorney, Election Protection Hub

Sophie House is an attorney with PRP's Election Protection Hub, where she provides support to election officials working to protect the right to vote.

Previously, Sophie served as the Law and Policy Director at the NYU Furman Center's Housing Solutions Lab. At the Lab, she advised state and local officials on housing issues and wrote and published extensively on housing and urban policy. She is a graduate of Yale Law School. As a law student, she worked with local government attorneys through the San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project and represented low-income clients in housing proceedings at the Urban Justice Center and New Haven Legal Assistance. After law school, she served as a law clerk for the Honorable Andrew D. Hurwitz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Sophie holds a B.A. in economics from New York University and an MPhil in social policy from the University of Oxford, where she earned a distinction for her graduate research on homelessness and access to public restrooms. She lives in New York City with her wife.

 

Kristen Janson (she/her) / Communications Manager

Kristen graduated from San Francisco State University with a BA in Political Science and a Minor in both Economics and International Relations.

She has over five years of experience managing campaigns on the local and state level. Most recently, she worked as a Political Consultant for the Bay Area, notably coordinating the press outreach across the state of California for AB 1482, the strongest statewide rent control program in the nation. She also worked as a Political Strategist, centering most of her work in Los Angeles and Orange County, focusing on direct mail, social media content, crafting extensive campaign strategies, and creating thorough and influential messaging for each of her clients. She also currently serves as the California Young Democrats Ambassador for the California Democratic Party.

Kristen was raised by a hardworking-immigrant-single-mother, which is where her passion for advocacy, accountability, and policy reform stems from.

When Kristen isn’t out fighting against injustice and bigotry, she likes taking kickboxing and ballet classes and exploring coffee shops and hiking trails with her Husky and sisters in her LA neighborhood.

 

Pascale Joseph (she/her) / Director of People

Pascale Joseph has over 18 years of experience across sectors, specializing in leadership development, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB), and organizational culture. She has served on the Board of Directors for multiple organizations and has worked with organizations and individuals to create environments where employees thrive and marginalized voices are amplified and empowered. Her work is grounded in implementing practices of liberation psychology, trauma-informed organizational management, and intentional leadership framed through vulnerability, authenticity, and empathy. Pascale has consulted with multiple organizations such as the New Leaders Council Pittsburgh Chapter, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, Black Health and more in support of work that ranges from DEIB, to operations, employee engagement, and business management. Pascale holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies and a Master of International Development from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently a Doctoral Candidate for the PhD in Instructional Management and Leadership at Robert Morris University.

 

Vicki Krajewski (she/her) / Director of Training & Online Learning

Vicki Krajewski is a global leader in critical learning design, and a builder of teams, services, and digital products. With a background in teaching, writing, and mindfulness and a dedication to reaching underserved people, she has worked to create inclusive and reflective experiences for learners in settings from Iowa high schools to New Delhi street camps to London C-suites.

After Masters and doctoral studies in liberation pedagogy, she applied ethnographic approaches to teaching, curriculum development, and teacher preparation at the University of Iowa, afterwards shifting these principles into global educational publishing with Pearson Education and building ethical digital learning practices for organizations big and small while living and working in Asia, Europe, and North America.

Most recently, she served over five years as Executive Director of Digital for Talking Talent, a global DEI coaching consultancy, where she advocated publicly to raise awareness of inclusion and wellbeing issues in digital products, and built an online coaching platform which won Learning Technology's Most Innovative New Product in recognition of its successful application of the Center for Humane Technology's Principles of Humane Design.

She brings a lifelong dedication to inclusion and justice work and a passion for systemic change to her role as Public Rights Project's Director of Training and Digital Learning. Cameo appearances in Zoom meetings may include her partner who works in Middle East human rights law and media, and her very important pug (VIP), Percy.

 

Jonathan Miller (he/him) / Chief Program Officer

Jonathan Miller is an experienced litigator and government attorney who has committed his career to public interest endeavors. 

Prior to joining PRP, Jon served as the Chief of the Public Protection & Advocacy Bureau in the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office. In that role, he led a 150-person team engaged in investigations, litigation, and other advocacy in the areas of civil rights, consumer protection, and workers rights. He was co-counsel with Attorney General Healey in a successful challenge of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, and helped lead a team that secured more than $100 million of consumer relief in an enforcement action against a subprime lender following the financial crisis of the late 2000s. 

Jon’s portfolio of work has included a wide range of matters from those brought on behalf of individuals facing housing discrimination or violation of their civil rights to U.S. Supreme Court advocacy on national topics such as affirmative action, reproductive rights, and marriage equality. In addition to Bureau Chief, Jon served as both an Assistant Attorney General in and Chief of the Civil Rights Division. 

Most recently, Jon participated in or oversaw Massachusetts’s cases challenging the travel bans, the termination of the DACA program, regulations that would permit employers to deny contraceptive coverage to their workers, and several actions by the Department of Education relating to for-profit schools. Eager to find creative solutions to difficult problems, Jon also helped to lead an initiative partnering with the Massachusetts Medical Society to develop instructional materials and other information for medical providers to engage in gun safety conversations with their patients.

Throughout his career, Jon has been committed to teaching students and other lawyers. He is a Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School. Jon graduated from Dartmouth College, where he played baseball, and Columbia Law School. He lives in the Boston area with his family.

 

Shireen Nori (she/her) / Director of Organizing

Shireen Nori is a recognized grassroots organizer and social movement strategist. She has over a decade of experience working at the intersections of reproductive justice and racial justice at the local, state, and federal levels. She also worked in climate justice at 350.org, where she co-created digital strategy for the 2019 Climate Strikes, which brought 7.6 million people out to the streets in a single day. Prior to joining Public Rights Project, she organized at Kairos Fellowship where she supported over 200+ organizations in developing and strengthening their online and offline organizing through training, coaching, and strategic development. Shireen lives in Duwamish land called Seattle, Washington with her dog Ruhi and her refrigerator.

 

Jordan Phillips (she/her) / Legal Fellow

Jordan Phillips graduated with a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 2023 and holds a Bachelor of Science in Social Work and minor in Business from Texas State University. Prior to law school, Jordan worked as an educator through Teach for America, where she developed a strong commitment to civil rights work and criminal justice reform.

At Texas Law, Jordan was a staff editor on the Texas Journal on Civil Liberties & Civil Rights and treasurer of the Thurgood Marshall Legal Society. She participated in the Human Rights Clinic and spent a semester in practice interning with the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Housing and Civil Enforcement Section, in Washington, D.C. She spent her summers working with the Special Victim’s Unit of the Travis County District Attorney’s Office on cases involving intimate partner violence and at the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office as a Fair and Just Prosecution Fellow.

Through her experiences, Jordan has seen, first-hand, the importance of community involvement and essential services for clients and the effect that access to programs can have on the lives of individuals and families. Her work as a Public Rights Project Fellow will continue her pursuit of advocacy and support of local government as agents for positive change.

 

Graham Provost / Staff Attorney, PRP’s Election Protection Hub

Graham Provost is an attorney with PRP’s Election Protection Hub. He is focused on defending the right to vote and ensuring that election officials are able to administer fair elections.

Graham graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as co-managing editor of the Journal of Law and Gender and on the article selection board of the Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review. He also participated in the Election Law Clinic, the Democracy and the Rule of Law Clinic, and the Consumer Protection Clinic. After law school, Graham served as a law clerk for Judge Morgan Christen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Lawrence Kahn of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.

Prior to law school, Graham completed a B.S. and an M.S. in Atmosphere/Energy Engineering at Stanford University and spent four years working to combat climate change through renewable energy, including by developing a data analytics platform for large-scale solar projects.

 

Ananda Robie (she/her) / Salesforce Platform Manager

As Public Rights Project’s Salesforce Platform Manager Ananda is passionate about developing and maintaining high-quality technology solutions that support our staff’s work and supercharge our mission. 

Ananda graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Electronic Media and Film from Northern Arizona University and got her start in technology management at the nonprofit Invisible Children where she was inspired by their use of digital storytelling to expose human rights abuses and inspire international action. From there, Ananda went to the Center for Action and Contemplation where she built their CRM, Web, and IT Digital Product Teams from the ground up.  

When Ananda’s not working, you can often find her camping out of her converted 1998 Dodge Ram Van which she lovingly calls Dora the Vansplorer.

 

Josh Rosenthal (he/him) / Legal Director

Josh Rosenthal is an economic-justice and civil-rights litigator. Most recently, he represented unions and their members in litigation at Bredhoff & Kaiser, PLLC and was managing attorney for a Los Angeles nonprofit. At the National Immigration Law Center and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, he pursued impact litigation in support of immigrant rights, free speech, and civil rights in housing, employment, public services, and voting. He also served in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's Office of Law and Policy, where he advised on the Bureau's regulatory and enforcement activities. 

Josh served as a law clerk for the Honorable Jane B. Stranch of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Honorable Myron H. Thompson of the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama. He graduated from Brandeis University and Yale Law School, where he participated in the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic. Before law school, Joshua was a research associate for the Center for American Progress, focusing on antipoverty policy and LGBT rights. 

Josh is a member of the bars of California, New York, and the District of Columbia. He is based in Los Angeles.

 

Valencia Scott (she/her) / Paralegal

Valencia Scott graduated from Oxford University in May 2023 with a Master’s in Law (specializing in Criminal Justice), where she was a Marshall Scholar, a Fellow with the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights, and Vice President of the Oxford Law Black Alumni Association. Valencia wrote her graduate thesis exploring Black experiences in solitary confinement, and the historical use of solitary confinement to undermine Black political organizing and expression in prisons. This work translates to her passion for supporting the labor, cultural, and expressive rights of artists and marginalized communities impacted by incarceration and immigration detention. 

While at Oxford, Valencia worked as a research assistant for the Law Faculty's Death Penalty Research Unit, where  she supported global policy/international law research geared toward preventing inhuman treatment of people on death row, and the progressive restriction/abolition of capital punishment. She also volunteered with Oxford Law’s Huntercombe Legal Clinic, where she supported immigration detention release and deportation defense efforts. 

Valencia graduated from UC Davis in 2020 with a B.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology & International Relations. Before joining PRP, Valencia worked as a Judicial Fellow at the Sacramento Superior Court where she advocated for implementation of virtual court programming and pre-prosecution/prison diversion efforts during COVID-19. She also gained global paralegal experience while working for a law firm in the UK. 

Valencia is currently based in Sacramento, CA. When she’s not working, she can be found at your local art gallery, practicing for her pilates instructor certification, or sharing cuddles with her beloved orange kitten, Morocco.

 

Aadika Singh (she/her) / Senior Staff Attorney

Aadika Singh is an attorney focused on advancing gender and reproductive justice nationwide through impact litigation and advocacy. She also has a decade of national and local administrative and legislative advocacy experience in criminal legal system reform, racial justice, and immigrants’ rights work. Aadika has spent the entirety of her law and policy career dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of low-income and other marginalized people, including at the ACLU (National, Alaska, Idaho, Michigan), the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, and Senator Patrick Leahy’s U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee team.

Aadika is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School where she was senior editor of the Law Review. After law school, Aadika served as law clerk to Justice Bridget M. McCormack of the Michigan Supreme Court, U.S. District Judge Gerald A. McHugh in Philadelphia, and Judge Theodore A. McKee on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. She is based in Anchorage, Alaska.

 

Emma Speiser (she/her) / Development Manager

Emma works as the Development Manager at Public Rights Project, bringing more than seven years of non-profit management in both the arts and public interest work. She comes to PRP from Equal Justice Works where she supported the behind-the-scenes fundraising operations of their Institutional Advancement team for almost four years. Prior to this, Emma served in various administrative and programmatic roles for arts organizations such as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Chautauqua Theater Company. She holds a B.A. in Arts Management from the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina.

 

Sevyn Winshel (they/them) / Fellowships & Learning Coordinator

Sevyn Winshel has a background in education advocacy and political campaigns, bringing program management and systems optimization skills. Prior to joining PRP, they worked at the Campaign for Our Shared Future, managing programs that defended and promoted educational equity. They received their Bachelors in political philosophy. Now living in Washington, DC, they run a home-bakery and teach yoga to the queer community.

 

Stephanie Yang (she/her) / Chief of Staff

As Chief of Staff, Stephanie supports the President in achieving critical organizational priorities, aligns the senior leadership team and staff towards PRP’s mission and strategic direction, and ensures a strong foundational operating infrastructure for the team. She also supports cross-functional team projects, talent planning, board management, and works closely with the Operations Director in implementation of new systems & processes, overall operations, and team culture. 

Before PRP, Stephanie was a management consultant at Kearney, where her work on pro-bono projects supporting civic engagement & democracy and social change inspired her to take her consulting skills into the nonprofit world. At Kearney, her work focused on operating model design, large-scale transformations, change management & communications, organizational effectiveness & efficiency, and learning & development. She was also a founding member of the Americas-wide Fair & Safe Voting committee, led various mental health & well-being employee initiatives, and mentored graduate students working on social impact pro-bono projects. 

Stephanie graduated magna cum laude from NYU’s Stern School of Business, and minored in Social & Cultural Analysis. At NYU, she led the Community Leaders Program, committed to bridging the digital divide for vulnerable communities through digital literacy education, where she led a job search and college application training for incarcerated individuals enrolled in NYU’s Prison Education Program. She was also co-editor-in-Chief of The Gould Standard student newspaper.

 
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Ben Chida (he/him) / Co-Founder

Ben Chida is an attorney, policy advisor, and former teacher. He is currently the Chief Deputy Cabinet Secretary to California Governor Gavin Newsom. Previously, Ben served as a legal and policy advisor in the Office of the California Attorney General, Kamala D. Harris, where he spearheaded multiple initiatives related to children’s policy, technology, data, and privacy. He also clerked for Hon. Robert L. Wilkins of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and Hon. David O. Carter of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Ben holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School and served as a Teach for America fellow in New York.



 

Brynne Craig (she/her) / Senior Advisor at Bloomberg Philanthropies

Brynne Craig is a Senior Advisor at Bloomberg Philanthropies focused on Special Projects and New Initiatives. Her work at Bloomberg Philanthropies encompasses both political and policy efforts.

Prior to joining Bloomberg Philanthropies, Brynne was Political Director and Senior Advisor to the President at Everytown for Gun Safety. She is a seasoned political leader who has managed some of the largest and most consequential field and political operations over the past decade.

 

Veena Dubal (she/her) / Professor of Law at University of California, Irvine

Veena Dubal is a Professor of Law and, by courtesy, Anthropology, at the University of California, Irvine. Her scholarship focuses broadly on law, technology, and precarious workers, combining legal and empirical analysis to explore issues of labor and inequality. Previously, Professor Dubal was a staff attorney and Berkeley Law Foundation fellow at the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco, where she led programs focused on workers’ rights and civil rights. 

 

Alida Garcia (she/her) / VP of Advocacy FWD.us, Former Senior Advisor on Migration for Biden-Harris Administration

Alida Garcia is the VP of Advocacy at FWD.us, a bipartisan advocacy organization primarily focused on passing common sense immigration and criminal justice reform policies, and recently served as a Senior Advisor on Migration for the Biden-Harris Administration. Alida has climbed the ranks as a campaign manager and political & public affairs strategist for electoral & issue advocacy campaigns. She is a national leader in many immigration political fights, including the #HomeisHere campaign to defend DACA, mobilizing to end Family Separation, and ending the Remain in Mexico program.

 

Jill Habig (she/her) / Founder & CEO at Public Rights Project

Jill Habig is an attorney and political strategist with experience in political campaigns, policy advocacy, affirmative litigation, and public law. She has been named an Ashoka Fellow, Open Society Foundations Leadership in Government Fellow, and Draper Richards Kaplan Social Entrepreneur for her work building Public Rights Project.

Before founding PRP, Jill was the Deputy Campaign Manager and Policy Director for Kamala Harris for U.S. Senate, and served as policy director for her transition team. Prior to joining the campaign, she served as Special Counsel to then-Attorney General Harris, advising the Attorney General on key legal issues and policy initiatives. Her work emphasized consumer fraud, health, education, human trafficking, and civil rights, including issues related to gender and LGBT rights. In 2015, she led the creation and launch of the Attorney General’s Bureau of Children’s Justice and managed its work, including civil rights investigations of school districts, child welfare departments, and juvenile justice systems.

Jill was previously a Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and served on the Affirmative Litigation Task Force at the San Francisco City Attorney’s Office, where she worked on the landmark trial challenging Proposition 8. She was a law clerk for Judge Dorothy W. Nelson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge Edward M. Chen of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. Jill earned her J.D. from Yale Law School and her B.A. from Georgetown University. She is currently a Lecturer at Berkeley Law School and teaches State and Local Impact Litigation.

 

Peter Harvey (he/him) / Partner, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Peter Harvey is a Partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. He is a past Attorney General of New Jersey and a former federal prosecutor. As such, Mr. Harvey has been a leading lawyer in civil and criminal trials, government investigations and consumer fraud matters for many years. A gifted trial lawyer, his nearly 30 years of courtroom experience includes significant commercial matters, frequently within the real estate, pharmaceutical and entertainment/sports industries.

 

Louise P. King, MD, JD (she/her) / Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School

Louise P. King, MD, JD is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School and a Surgeon within the Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her areas of interest in medical ethics focus on questions of informed decision making and assisted reproduction as well as equitable access to advanced gynecologic surgery. Prior to her medical career, Dr. King was a staff attorney for the Louisiana Supreme Court, clerked at the California Supreme Court, and worked with the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Project.

 

Bachul Koul (they/them) / Chair of the Board / Director, Value Creation, Warburg Pincus

Bachul Koul is a Kashmiri-American immigrant who identifies as trans/non-binary. They currently work on the Value Creation team at Warburg Pincus, a global private equity firm, and are focused on accelerating leadership and organizational capacity and capability to support growth. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, Bachul was an Executive Search and Leadership Advisory Consultant at Egon Zehnder, and an Associate Partner in the leadership, change, and organization practice at Kearney. They live in San Francisco with their wife Nicole (she/her).

 

Andy Sommer (he/him) / Secretary & Treasurer / Retired Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton

Andrew (“Andy”) Sommer recently retired as the General Counsel of the Center for Reproductive Rights, which he joined in 2020 following a year as a Fellow in Harvard University’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. Andy was a corporate partner, General Counsel, and member of the Management Committee of Debevoise & Plimpton, the global law firm where he had a 35-year career. At Debevoise, Andy advised a wide range of corporate clients and financial intermediaries in the US and Europe on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, corporate governance and other corporate matters.

 

FOUNDING BOARD MEMBERS


Heather Gerken (she/her) / Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Heather Gerken is the Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law and is in her second term as Dean of Yale Law School. Dean Gerken is one of the country’s leading experts on constitutional law and election law. A founder of the “nationalist school” of federalism, her work focuses on federalism, diversity, and dissent.

 

Brian Nelson (he/him) / U.S. Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

Brian Nelson is the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. Prior to joining Treasury, Brian was the Chief Legal Officer at LA28, the organizing committee for the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Los Angeles. His previous government service includes roles as a senior policy advisor, policy chief, and general counsel in the California Department of Justice, where he led efforts to enforce and reform financial regulations in the aftermath of the national foreclosure crisis in the late 2000s.

 

Ken Zimmerman (he/him) / CEO of Fountain House, Inc.

Ken Zimmerman is the CEO of Fountain House, a national mental health nonprofit that empowers people living with serious mental illness through direct services, practice innovation, and policy change. Prior to Fountain House, Ken founded and co-directed the Mental Health Strategic Impact Initiative (S2i) and was previously the Director of U.S. Programs for the Open Society Foundations, where he led initiatives involving over $100 million in grant-making to advance equality, democracy, and justice. He has also served in senior policy positions in the Obama and Clinton administrations, including as Senior Advisor to HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan.

 

ADVISORY BOARD


Lenore Anderson:  Co-founder & President, Alliance for Safety & Justice; 

Erin Bernstein:  Founder, Bradley Bernstein Sands LLP

Kelly Dermody:  Partner, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP

Karen Dunn: Partner, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP; former Associate Counsel to President Obama 

Bram Elias:  Clinical Professor & Director of Immigration Practice, University of Iowa College of Law

Stella Burch Elias:  Professor, University of Iowa College of Law

Danielle Gray:  Executive Vice President and Global Chief Legal Officer of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc.; former Assistant to President Obama & Cabinet Secretary

Dennis Herrera:  General Manager, San Francisco Public Utilities Commission; former City Attorney, San Francisco

Travis LeBlanc:  Partner, Cooley LLP; former Enforcement Chief, Federal Communications Commission

Christy Lopez:  Professor, Georgetown Law; former Deputy Chief, U.S. DOJ Civil Rights Division

Kathleen Morris:  Professor, Golden Gate University Law School; co-founder, San Francisco Affirmative Litigation Project at Yale Law School

Julian Mortenson:  Professor, University of Michigan Law School

Melissa Murray:  Professor Professor, New York University School of Law, Co-Host, Strict Scrutiny

Swati Mylavarapu:  Founder, Incite.org; Co-Founder, The Arena

Genevieve Nadeau: Counsel, Protect Democracy

Joanna Pearl:  Student Loan Justice Fellow, Student Borrower Protection Center; former Chief Operating Officer, Public Rights Project

Eli Savit:  Prosecuting Attorney, Washtenaw County, Michigan 

David Vladeck:  Professor, Georgetown Law; former Director, Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection