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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Kimberly Humphrey, Senior Legislative Counsel
Kimberly is a federal and state public policy expert with over twelve years of experience. She currently serves as the Senior Legislative Counsel at the Alliance for Justice, leading and coordinating federal advocacy in partnership with the Outreach and Bolder Advocacy Programs…
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
Leslie Barnes serves as Senior Counsel for the Bolder Advocacy Program at Alliance for Justice.
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Tim Mooney, Senior Counsel
Tim Mooney is senior counsel with the Bolder Advocacy Program at Alliance for Justice.
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Shannon Williams, Evaluation Manager
Shannon Williams is the Evaluation Manager at Bolder Advocacy.
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Ryann Alonso, Program Coordinator
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
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
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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Victor Rivera Labiosa, Bilingual Counsel
Victor Rivera Labiosa is a Bilingual Counsel for the Bolder Advocacy team and the Alliance for Justice’s Texas office.
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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, Executive Assistant
Anese Clark has been with Alliance for Justice for nineteen years and currently serves as the Executive Assistant.
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Semeka Lyles, Bookkeeper
Communications
Christopher Gray, Director, Communications
Christopher Gray serves as the Director of Communications for Alliance for Justice. Prior to joining AFJ, Christopher was a Director in The Raben Group’s media & communications practice area, where he led and co-led interdisciplinary teams serving progressive nonprofits, private foundations, issue coalitions, and philanthropic affinity groups.
Taylor Miller, Senior Digital Communications Strategist
Taylor Miller serves as a Senior Digital Communications Strategist for Alliance for Justice. In this role, she oversees the development and implementation of AFJ’s overall digital strategy across each of the organization’s major digital platforms.
Aidan O’Shea, Senior Digital Communications Strategist
Aidan O’Shea is a Senior Digital Communications Strategist, having started with AFJ in January 2022. As Senior Digital Communications Strategist, he contributes to the management of the organization’s online presence, and designs and executes bold digital campaigns to further AFJ’s mission.
Nadia Watson, Marketing Communications Manager, Bolder Advocacy
Nadia Watson is the Marketing Communications Manager for the Bolder Advocacy program at Alliance for Justice. She will help implement and maintain an overall content marketing strategy for Bolder Advocacy’s thought leadership and advocacy resources for the dual purpose of aligning with AFJ’s overall strategy and effectively engaging key stakeholders.
Development
Alisha Dingus, Director, Individual Giving and Board Relations
Alisha Dingus is the Director of Individual Giving and Board Relations at Alliance for Justice, where she oversees and grows the entire individual donor program.
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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, Vice President, Strategy
Keith Thirion leads the outreach and program teams 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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