LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN - Key Persons


Alan B. Abramson

Job Titles:
  • Director

Alicja Grygiel

Job Titles:
  • Donor Relations Supervisor / Communications

Alida Capellan

Job Titles:
  • Staff Social Worker

Allen Halpin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Co - Director, Social Work Practice

Alma Ramon

Job Titles:
  • Director of Administration
  • Member of the Leadership Team

Amanda Essor

Job Titles:
  • Education Advocacy Project Social Work Director
  • Staff Social Worker & Education Advocacy Project Social Work Director

Amanda Slater

Job Titles:
  • Immigration Rights Project Attorney
  • Senior Staff Attorney & Immigration Rights Project Attorney

Anna Schissel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Deputy Director of Litigation

Antoinette Briguglio

Job Titles:
  • Staff Social Worker

Betsy Kramer

Job Titles:
  • Director of Policy & Special Litigation

Carmita Cortes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Immigration Rights Project Social Worker
  • Social Work Supervisor & Immigration Rights Project Social Worker

Chelsea Velez

Job Titles:
  • Adolescents Confronting Transition Project Youth Advocate

Christina (Charlie) Rich

Job Titles:
  • Staff Attorney

Christina Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Staff Social Worker

Chynna Krouser

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Dawn O'Brien-Gans

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney

Doneth Gayle

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney

Dyane McMahon

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Director of Philanthropy & Strategic Partnerships

Emily Stark

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney

Erica Taft

Job Titles:
  • Equal Justice Works Legal Fellow

Erin Keenan Giangola

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Director of Philanthropy & Strategic Partnerships
  • Legal Supervisor

Glenn Metsch-Ampel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • Ex. Officio

Ilena Robbins

Job Titles:
  • Mental Health & Developmental Disability Project Director
  • Senior Staff Social Worker & Director, Mental Health & Developmental Disability Project

Jacob W. Buchdahl

Job Titles:
  • Director

Jacquelyn Simons

Job Titles:
  • Staff Social Worker

Jarel Melendez

Job Titles:
  • Adolescents Confronting Transition Project Youth Advocate Coordinator
  • Youth Advocate Coordinator

Jeffrey Chang - CCO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Communications
  • Member of the Leadership Team

Jocelyn Burnett

Job Titles:
  • Domestic Violence Project Social Worker
  • Staff Social Worker & Domestic Violence Project Social Worker

John M. Shapiro - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Jordan Bestman

Job Titles:
  • 110 Front Desk Administrative Assistant

Justin Choi

Job Titles:
  • Director of Youth Justice Project

Kara Katwaroo-Lee

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Social Worker

Karen J. Freedman - Founder, President

Job Titles:
  • Founder
  • Member of the Executive Team
  • President

Keenan Piangola

Job Titles:
  • Legal Supervisor / Justin

Kristin Kimmel

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney

Laura Daly

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney and Legal Director of the Education Advocacy Project

Leandro Brixner

Job Titles:
  • Staff Social Worker & Youth Justice Project Social Worker
  • Youth Justice Social Worker

Linda Diaz

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney
  • LGBTQIA Rights Project Director

Lisa Lubell

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director, Social Work Practice

Lisa May

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney

Margaret (Peggy) Tarvin

Job Titles:
  • Director of Litigation

Maria Galli-Parks

Job Titles:
  • Legal Administrative Assistant

Maritza Mateo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Office Manager

Mark Leider

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney

Marly Gonzalez

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney

Mary Ellen Shea

Job Titles:
  • Adolescents Confronting Transition Project Pregnant and Parenting Specialist
  • Senior Staff Social Worker & ACT Project Pregnant and Parenting Specialist

Michael Moorman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney

Michael Scherz

Job Titles:
  • Director, Domestic Violence Project

Michele La Rocca

Job Titles:
  • Senior Administrative Assistant

Mike Murtagh

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director, Social Work Practice

Myra Elgabry

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney & Director, Immigration Rights Project

Nathan Oliver

Job Titles:
  • 112 Front Desk Administrative Assistant

Priti Kataria

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney
  • Adolescents Confronting Transition Project Director

Renee Rivera

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Social Worker

Samairah Khan

Job Titles:
  • Staff Attorney

Serina Rosenbaum

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney

Seth D. Gelblum

Job Titles:
  • Founding Board Member

Shirim Nothenberg

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney & in - House Appellate Counsel

Shrimati Sookwah

Job Titles:
  • Co - Director, Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Project
  • Senior Staff Social Worker & Co - Director, Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Project

Stephanie (Fanny) Suquet

Job Titles:
  • Senior Staff Attorney

Tara Sheoran

Job Titles:
  • Adolescents Confronting Transition Project Housing Specialist
  • Supervising Attorney & ACT Project Housing Specialist

Tatiana Hernandez

Job Titles:
  • Immigration Rights Advocacy Project Social Worker
  • Staff Social Worker & Immigration Rights Project Social Worker

William Gillespie

Job Titles:
  • Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Project Social Worker
  • Social Work Supervisor & Co - Director, Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Project