Senior Managing Attorney
Pronouns: they/them
With a bachelor’s of science degree in political science and American studies from MIT (2014), a master’s of science degree in political science from MIT (’14), and a juris doctor from UC Berkeley Law (’17), Cory is excited to return to FVAP. Cory helps run FVAP’s Legislative and Policy Advocacy Program, including leading FVAP’s sponsorship of 2022’s AB 2369 (Salas), which made it easier for survivors to get attorney’s fees in DVRO cases, and harder for respondents. In 2023 Cory was part of the legal team (for City and County of San Francisco v. H.H. (2022) 76 Cal.App.5th 531), which won a 2023 CLAY (California Lawyer of the Year) Award from the Daily Journal.
Cory previously worked as a law clerk (’16) and post-grad legal fellow (’17-’18) for FVAP, and as a staff attorney for Family Violence Law Center (FVLC) (’18-’20). During law school, Cory clerked for Justice Jon B. Streeter of the California First District Court of Appeal, Division Four (’17); FVLC (’16); FVAP (’16); and East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC) (’16); and volunteered as a certified rape crisis counselor for Bay Area Women Against Rape (BAWAR) (’15-’16).
Cory is a member of the Alameda County Bar Association (ACBA) and California Lawyers Association, Family Law Section, and also serves on:
- the California Judicial Council’s Family & Juvenile Law Advisory Committee, Protective Order Working Group, Violence Against Women Education Project Subcommittee, and Ad Hoc Access to Visitation Grant Program Application Review Group (since ’19);
- the Legal Aid Association of California’s (LAAC) Advocacy & Amicus Committee (since ’23); and
- ACBA Judicial Appointments Evaluation Committee (JAEC) (since ’23).
Further, Cory volunteers as a manuscript reviewer for three journals:
- Violence Against Women (VAW) (since ’19);
- Journal of Family Trauma, Child Custody & Child Development (since ’23); and
- Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma (since ’23).
Selected quotes of interest:
- “She got a right to look over the world in whatever company she choose. Just cause I love her don’t take away none of her rights.” – Alice Walker, The Color Purple.
- “And the worst I wish the law is that [its] eye may be opened by experience—by experience.” – Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist.
- “Days and days and days / That’s how it happens . . . Everything is balanced and serene / Like chaos never happens if it’s never seen.” – Lisa Kron & Jeanine Tesori, Fun Home.
- “There’s a dream in the future, there’s a struggle / We have yet to win / Use that pride in our hearts / To lift us up, to tomorrow / ‘Cause just to sit still would be a sin.” – March Shaiman & Scott Wittman, Hairspray.
- “[H]ow do you measure a year in the life? / How about love?” – Jonathan Larson, Rent.
- “Another affordable way to add a drop of loveliness to the world [i]s not to change it but to change how one s[ees] it.” – Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer.
