Shane is a former Vice President of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners and LA Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) Commission, and has served on the Commission for the Housing Authority of the City of LA. She is the Co-Chair of the Southern California Grantmakers Board of Directors, California Funders for Boys and Men of Color (CFBMoC) SoCal Region, and People Assisting the Homeless (PATH). Shane was a Durfee Foundation Stanton Fellow focusing on youth justice issues, particularly on ending youth incarceration as we know it in Los Angeles. Shane won the 2014 Congressional Hunger Center Alumni Leadership Award for leadership in programs or policies that promote social justice, reduce poverty and oppression and improve food security. 

Prior to joining Liberty Hill, Shane was the Executive Director of PATH Ventures, an affordable housing development agency. She also served as a senior advisor to then-City Council President Eric Garcetti, overseeing housing, economic development, the city budget, public safety and LGBTQ issues. Shane has also worked as a community organizer focusing on economic justice in low income communities of color in LA.

A graduate of Kenyon College, Shane spent a year as a National Hunger Fellow managing a homeless shelter in Indiana and then conducting federal policy research on welfare reform in Washington, D.C. She has a Master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration.

Shane lives in Los Angeles with her wife Monica Granados and their two children.

Carol Sobel has served as the lead attorney on several cases representing the homeless against the City of Los Angeles. In these cases, “quality of life” ordinances” criminalizing conduct such as sleeping in a vehicle or leaving property unattended were found to be unconstitutional, protecting the rights of the homeless population. For example, she litigated the landmark 2006 case Jones v. City of Los Angeles, in which the Ninth Circuit ruled that it was illegal to arrest people sleeping on the street when there were no available shelter beds. More recently, Carol was LAFLA’s co-counsel in Mitchell v. City of Los Angeles, upholding unhoused people’s constitutional rights against the destruction of their property. Carol has also tackled similar issues in Orange County; the settlement in a recent lawsuit required county officials to adopt a less punitive approach towards residents of a homeless encampment in the Santa Ana riverbed.

Carol serves on the board of directors for several organizations that advocate for proactive approaches to similar issues, including the National Police Accountability Project and Elder Law & Disability Rights Center, where she chairs the board. She regularly gives talks on her work and is currently an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, where she teaches a civil rights practicum. Carol was recognized as a highly accomplished Super Lawyer for civil rights from 2004-2020.

Ono has trained with the FBI, the elite Los Angeles Sheriff’s SWAT team, ICE and the Los Angeles Port Police. Three times President Obama has invited him to the White House. Twice for exclusive one on one interviews, and once to make a speech about inclusion in America. David has extensively covered the Pope. He witnessed white smoke at the Vatican twice – in 2005 for the selection of Pope Benedict the 16th and 2013 for the selection of Pope Francis. He also covered Francis’s historic visit to the United States in 2015 and his visit to Mexico in 2016.

David has produced multiple award-winning documentaries, two of which have made their way to the Smithsonian Institution.

David has won 10 Edward R. Murrow awards, 31 Emmys, 2 RTDNA National Unity Awards, 6 AAJA National Journalism Awards, and was honored with the Distinguished Journalist Award by the Society of Professional Journalists. He has also received both the journalist of the year as well as the lifetime achievement award by the LA Press Club.