Our Team

“I am still fighting to make the world a better place and you can, too.” — Gabrielle Giffords

Ashlee G. Arcilla

Deputy Director
“Sometimes you’re the windshield / Sometimes you’re the bug / Sometimes it all falls together baby / Sometimes you’re just a fool in love / Sometimes you’re the Louisville Slugger / Sometimes you’re the ball” -“The Bug,” Mary Chapin Carpenter, written by Mark Knopfler

Viktor Bojilov

Chief Financial Officer
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” — Elie Wiesel

Jill Cohen

Chief Operating Officer
“The time is always right to do what is right.” — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Byron L. Conway Jr.

Director – Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging
Divided We Fail

Landry de Souza

Accountant
“It’s the eye of the tiger. It’s the thrill of the fight.”

Jena Fleiner

Director of Administration
“You don’t change the world with the ideas in your mind, but with the conviction in your heart.” — Bryan Stevenson

Shawna Mackey Geiger

Director of Engagement
Be kind!! Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about!!

Colleen Itzen

Attorney Payment Specialist
“You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.” — Malcolm X

MJ (Maleeka Jihad)

Director of Family Justice Programming
“Hope is a Discipline” — Mariame Kaba

Melanie Jordan

Policy Director
“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”

Rachael Maestas

Attorney Payment Specialist
“In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.” — Audre Lorde

Sarah Morris

Carrie Ann Lucas Disability Advocacy Director
The world is waiting for you. Good luck. Travel safe. Go!

Malia Reddick

Director of Research
“Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” — John Wooden

Zaven (“Z”) Saroyan

Appellate Director
“Brave leaders are never silent around hard things.” — Brene Brown

Melissa Michaelis Thompson

Executive Director
If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.

Christy Van Gaasbeek

Training Director
“Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.” —Carl Bard

Lana Trujillo

Administrative Specialist

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“Every child deserves to have their parent represented by the best attorney in town.”

-Marty Guggenheim

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