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Leadership & Staff
Leadership & Staff
Kim Sweet
Executive Director
Matthew Lenaghan
Deputy Director
Karen Alves
Senior Education Specialist, Helpline
Diana Aragundi
Staff Attorney, Immigrant Students' Rights Project
Michael Athy
Staff Attorney, Charter Schools Initiative
Melissa Atkinson
Administrative Assistant
Betty Baez Melo
Project Director, Early Childhood Education Project
Annys Bai
Data Coordinator/Legal Assistant
Janyll Canals-Kernizan
Senior Staff Attorney, Robin Hood Project
Vanessa Collado
Human Resources Manager
Lilliana Díaz-Pedrosa
Director, AFC Parent Center
Michelle Eaton
Senior Education Specialist, Project Achieve
Juliet Eisenstein
Equal Justice Works Fellow Sponsored by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, Morgan Stanley
Ana Espada
Senior Advocate/PTIC Co-Director
Michelle Frank
Assistant Director, NYS-TEACHS
Susana Golsteyn
Education Specialist, NYS-TEACHS
Mileisa Gomez
Advocate, Parent Center
Ashley Grant
Supervising Staff Attorney
Ivette Greenblatt
Director of Development
Allison Guttu
Supervising Staff Attorney and Pro Bono Coordinator
Chantal Hinds
Staff Attorney, Project Achieve
Daniel Hochbaum
Senior Staff Attorney
Sonia Inam
Administrative Assistant, NYS-TEACHS
Beata Jarosz
Senior Development Associate
Carolina Jimenez
Education Specialist, Helpline
Anne Klein
Director of Operations
Emily Kramer
Program Analyst, NYS-TEACHS
Randi Levine
Policy Director
Arija Linauts
Senior Program Associate, NYS-TEACHS
Kimberly Madden
Director of Family Support
Alana Miles
Staff Attorney, Early Childhood Education Project
Gena Miller
Staff Attorney, School Justice Project
Maggie Moroff
Special Education Policy Coordinator
Jacqueline Ontaneda
Education Helpline Supervisor
Romi Paek
Assistant Director, Project Thrive
Erika Palmer
Supervising Attorney
Sarah Part
Policy Analyst
Alyssa Perrone
Staff Attorney, School Justice Project
Ariel Peters
Staff Attorney
Andrea Picon
Education Specialist, Helpline
Jonathan Picos
Jesuit Volunteer
Laur-Edine Pierre
Senior Transition and Family Support Specialist
Jennifer Pringle
Project Director, NYS-TEACHS
Karoline Quiros
Senior Education Specialist and Administrative Coordinator, Helpline
Isabella Rieke
Communications Manager
Rita Rodriguez-Engberg
Director, Immigrant Students' Rights Project
Rebecca Shore
Director of Litigation
Rohini Singh
Staff Attorney, School Justice Project
Eliza Skosnik
Staff Attorney, Robin Hood Project
Jared Stein
Director, Robin Hood Project
Macy Stockton
Senior Advocate, Robin Hood Project/Coordinator of Social Work Initiatives
Anasofia Trelles
Education Specialist, NYS-TEACHS
Edgar Trinidad
Assistant Director of Development
Nicole Wallach
Staff Attorney, Immigrant Students' Rights Project
Matthew Winter
Administrative Assistant
Dawn Yuster
Director, School Justice Project