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Ming Chen

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Michael Holecek 

(Vice President)

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Scott Johnston

(President and Board Chair)
Chief Technology Officer, Mongoose Software
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Bre Jones

Special Counsel, Covington & Burling LLP
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 Samantha S. Low, LEED AP 

Director, Cushman & Wakefield

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 Samia Noor

UC Berkeley School of Law

Michelle Osborne

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Michelle M. Osborne J.D. & Associates LLC

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Mariya Pamnani

(Secretary)

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Nora Puckett

(Immediate Past President & Board Chair)

Associate General Counsel, Open AI

José Ramos, Jr.

Vice President and Chief Program Officer, Child Care Resource Center

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Lucy Ridgway

Principal, Lucy Ridgway LCSW

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Deborah Son

(Ex Officio and Non-Voting Board Member)

Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer, Family Violence Appellate Project

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Damali Taylor

Partner, O’Melveny & Myers, LLP

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Keisha Wright

(Treasurer)

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Elizabeth Cabraser

Partner, Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein

Erwin Chemerinsky
Dean, Berkeley Law

Nancy Lemon
FVAP Co-Founder & Past Legal Director

Sonya Passi
FVAP Co-Founder, Founder & CEO FreeFrom
 
Alexandrea Scott
FVAP Co-Founder, Staff Attorney Network for Victim Recovery of DC
 
 Erin Smith
FVAP Co-Founder & Past CEO
Author, California Judges Benchbook: Civil Proceedings
 
 

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