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CLA Staff & Board

Staff

San Francisco Bay Area

Alma RobinsonExecutive Director

Keegan Royal-Eisenberg, Associate Director / Staff Attorney 

Samantha TranProgram Manager, Lawyer Referral & Information Services

Susan Parlane, Program Coordinator, Arts Arbitration and Mediation Services

Susan Poorman, Volunteer Coordinator, Lawyer Referral & Information Services

Gabriela Lujan, Operations Manager

Ze Qin Lei, Bookkeeper

Sacramento

Jody Prunier, Associate Director 

Lisa Camhi, Director of Outreach, Membership and Special Events

Teresa Owens, Civil Harassment Court Program Coordinator 

Daniela De Gregorio, Program Coordinator, Arts Arbitration and Mediation Services, Sacramento Mediation Center

Robert Coleman, Administrative Coordinator

Brian McNulty, Civil Harassment Court Mediator 

 

Southern California

Gloria Oster, Deputy Director and Southern California Director

Aaron Larks-Stanford, Program Director, Arts Arbitration and Mediation Services and Arbitration Administrator

Alexandra Bloedorn, Program Manager, Education & AAMS

Toyin Moses, Special Projects Manager and Accessibility Coordinator

Josemar Gonzalez, Design & Creative Communications Director

Joseph Arias, Creative Communications and Administrative Coordinator

Diana CerveraDirector, San Diego Programs

  

Board

Board Officers

Steven A. Hirsch, President; Attorney, Complex Appellate Litigation Group

MJ Bogatin, Vice-President; Attorney, Bogatin, Corman and Gold

Gerry Bryant, Vice-President; Musician/Attorney, KCET

John (Jack) J. Davis, Vice-President; Attorney, Davis, Cowell and Bowe, LLP

Uduak Oduok, Vice-President; Attorney, FASHIONENTLAW

Benjamin A. Kimes, Secretary; Attorney, Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Darren Presher, Treasurer; C.P.A., Delagnes, Mitchell and Linder

Alma Robinson, Executive Director, CLA

 

Emeritus Board Members

Stephen J. Camber, President Emeritus

Ted Mitchell, Founding Board Treasurer

Consuelo S. Woodhead, Attorney

In Memoriam

Jerry Carlin, Founding President

Eleanor Dickinson

Sally Grant Disco

Jerome N. Field

Coral Henning

Richard Mayer

Laurel Zien

 

Board Members

Barbara Benish, Artist, Director, ArtMill Center for Sustainable Creativity

Teresa Carey, Mediator/Attorney

Sarai Carpio-Au, Artist

Stuart Carroll, Attorney

Eric Chun, Musician, ​Professor, American River College

Eugene H. Clark-Herrera, Attorney, Orrick

Keith Cooper, AttorneyCooper & Iravani LLP

Peter Dickinson, Attorney, Bush Gottlieb

J. Scott Evans, Attorney, STOBBS  

Gary Goldberger, Attorney

Maria Gomez Rodriguez, Attorney, Netflix

Kimberly Hancock, Attorney, Davis, Cowell & Bowe, LLP

Eric Hayashi, Film Producer

Edward (Ned) R. Hearn, Attorney, Past Board President

Stephanie G. Herrera, Attorney, Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP

Marisa Johnson, Attorney, Planet Labs PBC

Joseph S. Lewis III, Artist/Professor, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UC-Irvine

Christopher Marchese, Attorney, Fish & Richardson

Erik Metzger, Attorney, NVIDIA

Michael Parme, Attorney, Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, LLP

Aaron Rubin, Attorney, Morrison & Foerster

Corey Salsberg, Attorney, Novartis International AG

Michael Solomon, Attorney/Artist

Jennifer Burke Sylva, Attorney

William Turner, Attorney/Art Dealer, William Turner Gallery

Andrew Turney, Attorney, Amgen, Inc.

Nicholas White, Director of Facilities, Freenome

John B. Wong, Financial Advisor, Boxer Group

  

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