Management Staff & Attorneys
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles’ key management team brings a wealth of legal expertise, policy advocacy experience, a solid background working with diverse and underserved communities, and a passion for its mission to provide access to civil justice for those without a voice.
Leadership
Silvia R. Argueta
Executive Director
Clara Chiu-Torres
Chief Development Director
Lesli Latt
Director of Human Resources, Diversity & Inclusion
Joann Lee
Special Counsel on Language Justice
Nicole M. Perez
Director of Client Services and Compliance
Michael D. Polanichka
Director of Information and Technology
Linda Quintana
Director of Fiscal Management
Vincent Rodriguez
Chief Financial Officer
Barbara J. Schultz
Director of Housing Justice
Phong Wong
Pro Bono Director
Management
Yolanda Arias
Managing Attorney, East LA Office and Economic Stability Workgroup
Jennifer Baez-Silva
Supervising Attorney, Eviction Defense Center
Paula Cohen
Special Counsel on Family Law
Stephanie Davidson
Managing Attorney, Survivor and Family Justice Workgroup
Elana Eden
Communications & Marketing Manager
Mark Hu
Managing Attorney, Self-Help Centers
Sheyda Joolharzadeh
Managing Attorney, Medical-Legal Partnerships
Lana Martin
Grants & Contracts Manager
Kevin F. Mitchell
Managing Attorney, Santa Monica Office
Michael J. Ortiz
Special Counsel on Immigrant Affairs
Dominique Quevedo
Managing Attorney, Long Beach Office and Immigration Access Workgroup
Nicole Rivera-Vazquez
Managing Attorney, Client Intake
Jana Russell
Support Services Manager
Kristina Sanchez
Case Manager Project Manager
Tyler Nicole Smith
Managing Attorney, Veterans Justice Center
Jeffrey M. Uno
Managing Attorney, Eviction Defense Center
Susan Vincent
Legal IT Manager
Attorneys & Fellows
Asian & Pacific Islander Outreach Project
Jean C. Ahn
Bohan Chen
Patricia Park
Annie Yu
Bavani Sridar
Shawntel Williams
Economic Stability
Elena Ackel
Jonathan Brown
Matthew Clark
Zachary Genduso
Andrew Kazakes
Jamie Kim
Robyn Smith
Catherine Vega
Eviction Defense Center
Brianna Aguet
Amreet Badesha
Natalie Balderas-Fowler
Hanna Burt
Robin Chavarria
Cameron Dekens
Hossein Eshaghi
Michael Fraser
Fidel Hinojosa
Christopher Homandberg
Joshua Johnson
Sungwon Kim
Yong David Lee
Archanaa Lingan
Ningyi Ma
Amanda McNally
Olivia Mercado
Elyse O’Neill
Gregory Okada
Mario Perez
Viveka Ray-Mazumder
Hannah Samson
Kayla Wheeler
Jason Marcus Williams
Katherine Willis
Housing and Communities
Sean Bigley
Raymond Fang
Anna Hales
Manuel Villagomez
Immigration Access
Sonya Servin
Daliah Setareh
Nhien Tran
Christine Yoon
Medical-Legal Partnerships
Eun-Bit Chang
Eric Daco
Erin Gunter
Emma Lingel-Gary
Pro Bono
Mina Kim
Restoring Communities
Stephanie Horwitz
Petra Moreno
Giovanni Pesce
David Schlussel
Ian Stringham
Santa Monica Office
Lynn Franco
June Hormell
D. Towne Morton*
Amy Withmory
Self-Help Legal Access Centers
Cesar Bertaud
Pierre Cordero
Jordan Lennox
Jennie Nguyen
Susmita Sahu
Mona Sobhani
Survivor & Family Justice
Ariana Barlas
Clara Mora
Laura Rotmanskiy
Unhoused People’s Justice Project
Isabelle Geczy
Shayla Myers
Veterans Justice Center
Mallory Andrews
Louis Truong
* State of CA Bar Provisionally Licensed Attorney