Strategic Leadership: Navigating the Now Class of 2025
The Strategic Leadership: Navigating the Now program welcomes a powerful cohort of Executive Directors leading legal aid organizations through a time of heightened complexity and change. With deep experience and an unwavering commitment to access to justice, these leaders come together to sharpen their strategies, navigate real-time challenges, and strengthen their leadership practice.
Our inaugural Strategic Leadership group reflects the resilience, innovation, and strategic thinking needed to lead legal aid organizations in 2025.
Over six months, these leaders will engage in expert-led trainings, interactive peer sessions, and applied learning to address the urgent HR, operational, and sector-wide pressures impacting their work.

Adriana Melgoza
Watsonville Law Center

Alison Brunner
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley

Carmen McDonald
Survivor Justice Center

Carolina Martin Ramos
La Raza Centro Legal

Chancela Al-Mansour
Housing Rights Center

Cori Racela
Western Center on Law & Poverty

Erin Scott
Family Violence Law Center

Gautam Jagannath
Social Justice Collaborative

Jaime Levine
Elder Law & Advocacy

Jacquelynne Bowman
Greater Boston Legal Services

Jennifer Rodriguez
Youth Law Center

Jessica Manriquez Jewell
California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.

Maisha Cole
Child Care Law Center

Malou Chavez
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project

Masih Fouladi
California Immigrant Policy Center

Mimi Nguyen
Step Forward Foundation

Monica Glicken
Public Law Center

Randi Sunshine
Learning Rights Law Center

Salena Copeland
Legal Aid Association of California

Stacy Horth-Neubert
Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law