President
Rakim Brooks is the president of Alliance for Justice (AFJ), where he brings his commitment to a judiciary that reflects America’s diversity and the Constitution’s promise of a more perfect union.
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Justice
Daniel L. Goldberg, Director, Legal
Daniel L. Goldberg currently serves as Legal Director at the Alliance For Justice. Prior to joining AFJ, Mr. Goldberg served as Chief of Staff of the Department of Justice Office of Legislative Affairs.
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William Harrison, The Helen Rosenthal Fellow
Will is the Rosenthal Fellow with the Building the Bench program at Alliance for Justice. In this role, Will builds awareness of the importance of experiential and demographic diversity on the federal judiciary, and partners with a coalition of organizations to identify and recruit potential candidates for the federal bench.
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Jackie Adelsberg, Dorot Fellow
Jackie Adelsberg is a Dorot Fellow at the Alliance for Justice. In this role, she researches and prepares reports on judicial nominees and monitors federal court decisions affecting civil rights and access to justice issues.
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Bolder Advocacy
Abby Levine, Director, Bolder Advocacy
Abby Levine serves as Director of the Bolder Advocacy Program at Alliance for Justice.
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Washington, D.C.
Leslie Barnes, Senior Counsel, Bolder Advocacy Program
Leslie Barnes serves as Senior Counsel for the Bolder Advocacy Program at Alliance for Justice.
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Tim Mooney, Senior Counsel, Bolder Advocacy Program
Tim Mooney is senior counsel with the Bolder Advocacy Program at Alliance for Justice.
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Ronnie Pawelko, Senior Counsel, Bolder Advocacy Program
Ronnie Pawelko is Senior Counsel for the Bolder Advocacy program at Alliance for Justice and is based in AFJ’s Washington, DC office.
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Shannon Williams, Evaluation Manager, Bolder Advocacy Program
Shannon Williams is the Evaluation Manager at Bolder Advocacy.
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Ryann Alonso, Program Coordinator, Bolder Advocacy Program
Ryann Alonso is the Program Coordinator for the Bolder Advocacy program at Alliance for Justice’s DC office.
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California
Nona Randois, California Director
Nona leads AFJ’s Bolder Advocacy work in California. She supervises AFJ’s California team and ensures that AFJ offers expert training, resources, and technical assistance to support nonprofits and foundations conducting advocacy in our state.
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Sara Matlin, Senior Bilingual Counsel, Bolder Advocacy Program
Sara Matlin is Senior Bilingual Counsel with the Alliance for Justice’s Bolder Advocacy Program in Northern California.
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Jairo Gomez, Program Coordinator, Bolder Advocacy
Jairo Gomez is the CA Program Coordinator for the Bolder Advocacy program. He coordinates workshops, trainings, and provides administrative and programmatic support.
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Texas
Natalie Roetzel Ossenfort, Texas Director
Natalie Ossenfort serves as the Director of AFJ’s Texas office, where she works with local nonprofit organizations to boost their advocacy capacity and understanding of state and federal nonprofit advocacy rules.
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Administration and Finance
Alicia Peyton, Director, Administration
Alicia Holmes Peyton has been in service as Alliance for Justice’s Director of Administration for over twenty years. She has been working to better the office administration and management field for over 30 years.
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Reginald Thornton, Director, Finance
Jasmine Newman, Database Manager
Jasmine is the Database Manager for AFJ and affiliated programs.
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Anese Clark, Receptionist/Office Administrator
Anese Clark has been with Alliance for Justice for nineteen years and currently serves as a Receptionist/Office Administrator.
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Semeka Lyles, Bookkeeper
Communications
Christopher Gray, Director of Communications
Development
Alisha Dingus, Director of Individual Giving
Alisha Dingus is the Director of Individual Giving at Alliance for Justice, where she oversees and grows the entire individual donor program.
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Holly Tippett, Director, Foundation Relations
Holly is the Director of Foundation Relations at Alliance for Justice where she works closely with Program Directors to best represent AFJ’s work and vision to current foundation funders and prospects.
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Julia O’Connell, Development Associate
Julia is the Development Associate, where she assists the Development Team in securing funds for AFJ’s many initiatives and projects.
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Outreach
Keith Thirion, Director, Outreach
Keith Thirion leads the outreach team in organizational and coalition strategies elevating the importance of the courts and judicial nominations through public education and mobilization.
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Rachel Bracken, Senior Outreach Associate
Rachel is a Senior Associate with the Outreach team. In this position, she coordinates outreach to AFJ’s networks of member organizations, law schools, legal communities, and various coalitions across the United States.
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Aaron True, Senior Outreach Associate
Aaron is a Senior Outreach Associate at the Alliance for Justice. In this role, he organizes and implements nationwide campaigns for fairer and more just courts.
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